Find or download a version of Chrome for use with puppet-strings

Install puppet-strings-chrome by running:

yarn add puppet-strings-chrome

Find a locally installed stable version of Chrome or download it if none exists, and then launch it for use with puppet-strings

import { openChrome } from 'puppet-strings-chrome'
import { openTab } from 'puppet-strings'

async function run() {
  const browser = await openChrome()
  const tab = await openTab(browser, 'http:/example.com')
}

run()

openChrome() takes the same options as openBrowser()

openChrome() uses findChrome() to detect a locally installed version of Chrome or Chromium, falling back to using downloadChrome() to download a usable version of Chromium.

Find the path to a locally installed stable version of Chromium or Google Chrome.

import { findChrome } from 'puppet-strings-chrome'

async function run() {
  const chromePath = await findChrome()
  console.log(chromePath)
}

run()

findChrome returns null if it can't find an executable.

Only Linux and OSX are supported.

findChrome searches common paths such as:

• /Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome
• /usr/bin/chromium
• /usr/bin/chromium-browser
• /usr/bin/google-chrome
• /usr/bin/google-chrome-stable

If no executables exist at any of these paths, findChrome returns null

Download a version of Chromium that will work with puppet-strings.

import { downloadChrome } from 'puppet-strings-chrome'

async function run() {
  const chromePath = await downloadChrome()
  console.log(chromePath)
}

run()

downloadChrome() downloads the version of Chromium compatible with the current version of Puppeteer. Downloads are cached in ~/.chromium. If the version of Chromium is already downloaded, it will not be downloaded again.