I execute this in order to open Google chrome in kiosk mode:
"C:\Users\Javier\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --user-data-dir=$(mktemp -d) --kiosk "url"
but, what I need to modify if google chrome is installed in Program Files(x86)? If I execute:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe --user-data-dir=$(mktemp -d) --kiosk "url"
I get an error in --user-data-dir=$(mktemp -d) sentence.
Thanks in advance.
Javier
I think there may be no elegant solution at this point. "mktemp -d" is a linux/unix command and I can't find it, or an equivalent, on windows. It may have worked at one time (I stumbled on mktemp on a microsoft development page), but on 8.1 it didn't. The error I was getting said it had to do with permissions, but that wasn't the case.
If someone could get commands in Cygwin working at the windows command prompt then maybe the above would work. Another option may be to create something for PowerShell that does the same and plug that in there.
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --user-data-dir=c:\somedir --kiosk "some.url.here" does work though. It works from a shortcut, so it should also work from the command line, but you do lose the random temp directory.
For my case, I just wanted some websites/web-apps to default full screen (F11) from a shortcut and I'd just Alt-F4 to close, and Alt-Tab between them and the desktop. As it is, I'm thinking I'll have to make a separate data-dir for each one I want to do.
I was using the command chrome.exe --user-data-dir=$(mktemp -d) --kiosk http://someUrl/ and it was working well for over a week until I started testing my program with a limited privilege user today. I noticed that chrome process itself did not start after calling process.start() method. There were no entries in event logs to see what went wrong. After looking at your solution, I changed my program to generate a temp folder using C# command pass it as an argument and it started working. Thanks for the help. This is the simplified version of the code I use.
DirectoryInfo tempDirectory = Directory.CreateDirectory(Path.Combine(Path.GetTempPath(), "Chrome" + DateTime.Now.ToString("ddMMHHmmss")));
Process process = new Process();
process.StartInfo.FileName = GetBrowserPathFromRegistry();
process.StartInfo.Arguments = String.Format("--user-data-dir={0} --kiosk {1}", tempDirectory.FullName, this.uri);
process.Start();
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Here's exactly what I did:
I went to https://download-chromium.appspot.com/ and clicked the button.
I ran the file (oddly called chrome-win.exe instead of Chromium.exe).
I went to its install directory and opened a cmd.exe in there.
I ran the command:
chrome.exe --headless --dump-dom "https://www.example.com/"
According to the manual, this is supposed to open that URL headlessly and dump the DOM as text after JavaScript has been executed, to the stdout, meaning the cmd.exe in this case.
Problem: Nothing happens. Literally no output at all. The only thing that I can tell that happens (and that was just out of pure coincidence) is that a file called chrome_debug.txt is created in the same directory, with this contents:
[0712/065333.417:ERROR:browser_process_sub_thread.cc(203)] Waited 5 ms for network service
If I instead run the command:
chrome.exe "https://www.example.com/"
It opens the browser and goes to that URL (as expected). So it's not something fundamentally wrong with my Internet connection or computer.
What am I doing wrong?
You might want to try to enable logging by adding the --enable-logging flag to the command line.
Also, although according to this bug report this is no longer necessary, it may be wise to add the --disable-gpu flag to prevent GPU errors from showing in the stdout.
The final command line should look like this:
chrome.exe --headless --enable-logging --disable-gpu --dump-dom "https://www.example.com/""
which returns the DOM of www.example.com/ on chromium 76.0.3809.87 succesfully.
Today (Mar, 15, 2016) chrome stopped working with the --disable-web-security flag. I have tried the following options described in various posts:
1) Kill all instances of Chrome.exe in the windows task manager.
2) add the --use-data-dir flag, there is a current post regarding this, but the answers there do not work anymore
Here is my script I am using:
start chrome.exe --disable-web-security --allow-running-insecure-content --use-data-dir=c:/temp/chrome_dev
Chrome opens under this script with the disable security warning but localhost cross domain calls still fail:
I have solutions that are using --disable-web-security.
Finally I found solution. Now chrome just will accept it if you set --user-data-dir together.
You will have different instances when you use it.
Try it:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --disable-web-security --user-data-dir="D:\chrome"
For linux
google-chrome --user-data-dir=”/var/tmp/Chrome” --disable-web-security
I suggest a temp directory
Just for OS X user, this worked for me (on El Capitan): /Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome --disable-web-security --user-data-dir="<some-dir>"
Also works on Yosemite 10.10.5. Please note that --user-data-dir may no longer be left empty. You have to specify some dir.
This doesn't work anymore, since Chrome 80. You have to specify a non-default --user-data-dir to make it work now.
Original answer:
You can use your existing data dir, if you don't want to create a new one.
So on Linux the command to start unsafe Chrome will be something like this:
google-chrome --user-data-dir=/home/<your username>/.config/google-chrome --disable-web-security
But don't use this Chrome instance for anything except development or debugging, since it's open for a vast amount of web attacks.
This works with chrome 61 too for me -
chrome.exe --user-data-dir="C:/Chrome dev session" --disable-web-security
Update: I have found a permanent solution for this disable web security issue.
step 1: create 1 chrome app shortcut on desktop and rename it anything like "disabled-security.exe"
step 2: right click on icon and go to properties => change target input box to something like following eg. and save it.
C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --disable-web-security --disable-site-isolation-trials --user-data-dir=c:\chromeSession
step 3: launch this app, it will work fine as expected
Note: everytime you need to clear folder "c:\chromeSession" before opening this app
Do not disable web security. You're opening your accounts to attacks and your local files to being stolen.
Instead use a simple web server. It will take you all of 2 minutes to install and use. Here's one with a gui, and here's several more that run from the command-line
I'm creating a batch to automate setting up new computers and one of the programs is AVAST. When I install avast silently, it installs chrome as well. Chrome isn't a program that I'm wanting to put on and it seems there is no workaround. So now I'm trying to make it uninstall chrome silently after AVAST but it just opens a new cmd window instead of running the exe.
#echo off
CD /d "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application"
for /r %%f IN (setup.ex?) DO (
START /WAIT "%%f --uninstall --force-uninstall --multi-install --chrome --system-level"
)
pause
Moving the end quotation to the end of %%f just gives an error that --uninstall isn't an existing file.
I've tried this on multiple PC's.
Not sure your still looking for an answer, but I was able to make your batch work.
CD /d "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application"
for /r %%f IN (setup.ex?) DO (
"%%f" --uninstall --force-uninstall --multi-install --chrome --system-level
)
This may not be the answer... but it's too long for a comment! Are you certain that you must instqall Chrome? How did you install AVAST? Can we see the command line? If you used some kind of answer file perhaps it can be modified or perhaps you can pass arguments to your install command. Try doing the command with /? to see if you get choices. According to this you do have a choice. https://blog.avast.com/tag/google-chrome/
"As we get close to our launch date for our new Avast! Free Antivirus, version 5 we have an exciting new agreement with Google to announce. Starting in mid-November, we will be giving our new users an option to install Google Chrome when installing Avast. And to be clear here since I think some readers were reading too much into this entry. We are not forcing Chrome on users. It is entirely up to the user–to download/install is entirely up to the user and nothing is hidden."
I am having a hard time to find how to save the page as html or .txt using command line in Chrome Browser,
This is what I've done so far,
C:\Users\Cipher\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application>chrome.exe --new-window
http://google.com
This command will open a new window of Chrome browser and visit google.com but i couldn't be able to figure our how can i save google.com as html or as txt file ,
is there anyway to do so using command prompt ?
You cannot perform the task you describe manually, but you can perform it using WebDriver automation.
Chrome can be remote controlled using an API called WebDriver (part of Selenium 2 automating suite). WebDrive has bindings for various programming languages, including e.g. JavaScript and Python.
Here is example code for Python (not tested):
from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Chrome('/path/to/chromedriver') # Optional argument, if not specified will search path.
driver.get('http://www.google.com/');
html = driver.page_source
f = open("myhtml", "wt")
f.write(html)
f.close()
Orignal example
Do you really need to open Google Chrome? You can get the page source using Wget (available for UNIX systems or for Windows in this post on SuperUser). Once installed, just use the following command:
wget http://google.com -O yourfilename.html
And this should be all :) I don't think there's a way to tell Chrome to download the HTML from the command line though :(
UPDATE: There's a repo on GitHub called chrome-cli that allows the user to control Chrome from the command line. Downside is that it only works on Mac OS X.
I created a small script to do perform exactly this task: https://github.com/abiyani/automate-save-page-as . See the demo gif in the README.
It automates the keyboard actions you would otherwise perform to save the page manually (literally sends those key signals to OS). As a side effect of it being used in another project of mine, it's been tested on various linux flavors: Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora, etc - and works fine on all of them. It probably won't work (at least without modifications) on Mac, and certainly not on Windows.
This should work :
cd c:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application
c:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application>chrome.exe --headless --dump-dom --enable-logging --disable-gpu https://www.google.com >c:\yourpath\yourfile.html
I've had this problem for ages, and it's SO ANNOYING.
Suppose I want to run mysqldump.exe... here's my process: Start->run, type "cmd" ... dir into directory after directory until I finally get to c:/program files/mysql/bin/then I can FINALLY call "mysqldump.exe"
I don't mind using Windows Explorer to get to c:/program files/mysql/bin, but then I can't freaking open up any of the .exe files in a shell, and I can't open up shell with the directory being that one.
How can I do this?
This is what I do for those type of commands:
Drag a copy of the "Command Prompt" shortcut onto your desktop.
Open the properties of the shortcut.
Change the Target: field to: %SystemRoot%\system32\cmd.exe /k mysqldump.exe
Change the Start in: field to: c:/program files/mysql/bin/
Hit Ok, then rename the short cut from "Command Prompt" to "Mysqldump".
Then just double click the icon whenever you need that command. The "/k" option for cmd.exe leaves the window open.
Microsoft released a powertoy for Windows XP called Open Command Prompt Here. If you're using Vista, all you need to do is hold shift and right-click.
here's my process: Start->run, type
"cmd" ... dir into directory after
directory until I finally get to
c:/program files/mysql/bin/ then I can
FINALLY call "mysqldump.exe"
Why not just the following?
c:
cd "c:/program files/mysql/bin"
mysqldump.exe
Better yet, put this in a batch file and execute it.
You can also create a shortcut for cmd.exe and set the "Start in" directory to "c:/program files/mysql/bin".
You can download an add-in so that you can right click on the folder and open a command prompt. Saves a lot of time and you say you dont mind navigating to the location.
http://download.microsoft.com/download/whistler/Install/2/WXP/EN-US/CmdHerePowertoySetup.exe
A nice little trick is that the icon in the adress bar of explorer could be dragged to a command line window and it insert the full path at your current cursor position.
It doesn't work in vista but if you SHIFT-RightClick on a folder you have an "Open Command Windows Here" option that appears.
Under xp you could have it by saving this as a .reg and executing it :
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Folder\shell\cmd]
#="Open Command Prompt Here"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Folder\shell\cmd\command]
#="cmd.exe /k pushd %L"
Just use the explorer to navigate to the bin or any directory. then enter cmd at the address bar und hit return. the command line with start at this location.
You can do it with python:
If you don't have activepython already, download from ActiveState's Website. Next, run PythonWin and create a new script. Write the following:
from subprocess import *
Call("c://program files//mysql//bin//mysqldump.exe")
Save the script somewhere. When you want to run it, just doubleclick. There are easier ways if you like writing batch files, but Python is more succinct than even windows for this case.
Just put c:/program files/mysql/bin/ into your path...
Then you can run mysqldump.exe directly without even opening a cmd prompt by typing it into " Start > Run "
I was using the MS PowerToy for a while but moved on to the open source Open Command Prompt Shell Extension because of the key feature:
(copied verbatim from the website)
The ability to open a command prompt in the directory that you are currently in by right-clicking on any empty screen space in the directory. This eliminates the need to navigate up a level in order to open a command prompt in the current directory.
Having to actually click on a folder to open the command prompt using the MS tool was a annoyance for me... especially since I always need to run command line tools on my current directory at the time.