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Possible paths or binary names of Chrome, Chrome Canary and Chromium in the current platform
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Possible paths or binary names of Chrome, Chrome Canary and Chromium in the current platform

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/shinnn/chrome-paths
• Owner: shinnn
• License: isc
• Created: 2018-07-26T05:42:47.000Z (over 6 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2021-02-25T13:06:05.000Z (over 3 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-08T17:26:43.868Z (about 1 month ago)
• Topics: binary, chrome, chromium, cross-platform, detection, executable, javascript, nodejs, path
• Language: JavaScript
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• Size: 32.2 KB
• Stars: 22
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 2
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# chrome-paths

[![npm version](https://img.shields.io/npm/v/chrome-paths.svg)](https://www.npmjs.com/package/chrome-paths)

[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.com/shinnn/chrome-paths.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.com/shinnn/chrome-paths)

Possible paths or binary names of [Chrome](https://www.google.com/chrome/), [Chrome Canary](https://www.google.com/chrome/canary/) and [Chromium](https://www.chromium.org/Home) in the current platform

```javascript

const chromePaths = require('chrome-paths');

// On macOS

chromePaths.chrome; //=> '/Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome'

chromePaths.chromeCanary; //=> '/Applications/Google Chrome Canary.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome Canary'

chromePaths.chromium; //=> '/Applications/Chromium.app/Contents/MacOS/Chromium'

// On Linux

chromePaths.chrome; //=> 'google-chrome'

chromePaths.chromeCanary; //=> null

chromePaths.chromium; //=> 'chromium'

// On Windows

chromePaths.chrome; //=> 'C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Google\\Chrome\\Application\\chrome.exe'

chromePaths.chromeCanary; //=> 'C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Google\\Chrome SxS\\Application\\chrome.exe'

chromePaths.chromium //=> 'C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Chromium\\Application\\chrome.exe'

// On Solaris

chromePaths.chrome; //=> null

chromePaths.chromeCanary; //=> null

chromePaths.chromium; //=> null

```

## Installation

[Use](https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/install) [npm](https://docs.npmjs.com/about-npm/).

```

npm install chrome-paths

```

## API

```javascript

const chromePaths = require('chrome-paths');

```

### chromePaths.chrome, chromePaths.chromeCanary, chromePaths.chromium

Type: `string` or `null`

```javascript

const {execFile} = require('child_process');

const {promisify} = require('util');

const {chrome, chromeCanary} = require('chrome-paths');

(async () => {

  (await promisify(execFile)(chrome, ['--version'])).stdout; //=> 'Google Chrome 71.0.3578.98 \n'

  (await promisify(execFile)(chromeCanary, ['--version'])).stdout; //=> 'Google Chrome 74.0.3689.0 canary\n'

})();

```

Whether each property is a full path, just a binary name or `null` depends on the current [platform](https://nodejs.org/api/process.html#process_process_platform).

## License

[ISC License](./LICENSE) © 2018 - 2019 Shinnosuke Watanabe