Chrome Version

Get the version of Chrome installed on Windows, Linux, Mac. Cross-platform using Python, native OS detection, does not require Selenium.

Table of Contents

• Table of Contents
• Installation
• Usage
• Motivation
• Features
• Author
• Disclaimer
• License

Installation

uv add chrome-version

Usage

Module:

import chrome_version
print(chrome_version.get_chrome_version())
# '103.0.5060.114'

CLI:

chrome-version
103.0.5060.114

Motivation

TL;DR I don't want to copy and paste it again...

At first,

I needed to get the Chrome version for a project I was working on, which was using Undetected Chromedriver. I found this gist.

After using it in several projects, I decided to turn it into a module so I'll be free of copy/paste. It only have one functionality: getting the chrome version.

Then,

I decided to use this package to learn more about:

• Using Poetry for packaging and dependency management.
• Using scripts for CLI.
• Versioning.
• License management.
• Documentation.
• Publishing a module on PyPI.
• Using GitHub Actions to automate the publishing process.
• ...

Finally,

Now it's kind of a playground for me to learn more...

One other thing is that it's educational: A simple module is a good practice for me to learn how to build modules and publish them on PyPI and show others how easy it is.

Features

• Cross-platform
• No external dependencies
• CLI
• Module

Development

Clone the repository and cd into the project directory:

git clone https://github.com/hasansezertasan/hwid
cd hwid

The commands below can also be executed using the xc task runner, which combines the usage instructions with the actual commands. Simply run xc, it will popup an interactive menu with all available tasks.

pre-commit

Run the pre-commit hooks:

uvx pre-commit run --all-files --hook-stage manual --show-diff-on-failure

checks

Run all checks to ensure code quality:

uvx "validate-pyproject[all]" pyproject.toml
uvx typos
uvx vulture src
uvx ruff check
uvx taplo lint pyproject.toml
uvx ruff format
uvx taplo format pyproject.toml
uvx mypy src
uvx mypy --install-types --non-interactive src/chrome_version

docs:serve

Serve the documentation locally:

uvx --with-requirements requirements.docs.txt --reinstall mkdocs serve

docs:build

Build the documentation locally:

uvx --with-requirements requirements.docs.txt --reinstall mkdocs build

Author

• Hasan Sezer Taşan, It's me 👋
• Kory Becker, owner of the original script.

Disclaimer

Based on chrome-version-gist by Kory Becker.

This package provides a CLI wrapper for the original project. All credit reserved to the author of the original code.

License

chrome-version is distributed under the terms of the MIT license.