How to get chrome version using command prompt in windows

Question

Is it possible to get version installed chrome version using command prompt in windows?

Tried,

 "C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" -version
 "C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --version
 "C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" -product-version
 "C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --product-version

When i do that, a browser instance is opening. What flag should I be using to get the version.

I am using Windows 7. Google Chrome version is 67.0.3396.87.

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

As of today user4851's is still working. I took a look at his linked bug report and the proposed work around did not work for me anymore.

Anways a new hkey is present in my directory which allows you to query the chrome version without being aware of the actual installation location:

reg query "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\Chrome\BLBeacon" /v version

Answer 2

I tried Kilian's answer, however in my case, I was running it against a bunch of machines remotely via a service, so I don't think HKEY_CURRENT_USER was valid:

ERROR: The system was unable to find the specified registry key or value.

Assuming you know where the exe is, you can try a different approach and read the version property of the exe file:

# Powershell
# Older versions install to the 32-bit directory
(Get-Item "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe").VersionInfo

# Newer versions use the 64-bit directory
(Get-Item "C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe").VersionInfo

ProductVersion   FileVersion      FileName
--------------   -----------      --------
76.0.3809.100    76.0.3809.100    C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe

To using it in cmd.exe or via any subprocess calls (python, go os/exec, etc.) you can do,

powershell -command "&{(Get-Item 'Absolute\path\to\chrome.exe').VersionInfo.ProductVersion}"

Answer 3

Using only commandline utils

dir /B/AD "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\"|findstr /R /C:"^[0-9].*\..*[0-9]$"
78.0.3904.97

List only directories /AD within the Chrome application folder in short form /B.

findstr /R /C:"..." applies the following regex to the list of directories. The regex matches every foldername starting with a digit ^[0-9] and ending with ad digit [0-9]$. Between the first and last digit there are any characters .* allowed but at least one dot should appear \.

Answer 4

user1425134's solution worked for me, but if you are allowed to assume that Chrome is part of %PATH% (if you can open Command Prompt and type chrome to start the browser), then it can be greatly simplified.

From Powershell you can type (Get-Command "chrome").Version.ToString()

Or from cmd.exe you can type powershell -c "(Get-Command "chrome").Version.ToString()"

(same for Chromium, just replace the command name)