How can I open a URL in Google Chrome from the terminal in OS X?
This is what I'm trying:
/usr/bin/open -a "/Applications/Google Chrome.app" --args 'http://google.com/'
It focuses Chrome but does not open the URL.
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Sign up to join this communityHow can I open a URL in Google Chrome from the terminal in OS X?
This is what I'm trying:
/usr/bin/open -a "/Applications/Google Chrome.app" --args 'http://google.com/'
It focuses Chrome but does not open the URL.
If you remove the --args
it seems to work fine, since --args
can only affect things on first launch (it changes what main gets called with)
Actually for me, the command is not working with the "--args" being present so the command working for me is
/usr/bin/open -a "/Applications/Google Chrome.app" 'http://google.com/'
OS X version: 10.6.8
If you set Google Chrome as your default browser
open http://google.com/
will just do the trick.
OS X version: 10.8.4
You can use
open -a "Google Chrome" index.html
or, to put it in a shell script (e.g. ~/bin/chrome)
edit the file ~/bin/chrome, and put the following in it
open -a "Google Chrome" "$*"
make the file executable by running the following in a terminal
chmod 700 ~/bin/chrome
then run the following to open a file in chrome from the terminal
chrome /path/to/some/file
I've an alias for google
function google() { open /Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/ "http://www.google.com/search?q= $1"; }
chrome() { open -a "Google Chrome" "http://www.google.com/search?q=$1"; }
There are several helpful answers here but none that contain the complete info for opening a URL in Chrome in both cases whether it is or is not the default browser.
Open a URL in the default browser (could be Chrome):
open http://www.example.com
Open a URL in Chrome always (using the app name):
open -a "Google Chrome" http://www.example.com
Open a URL in Chrome always (using the app path alternative syntax):
open -a /Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/ http://example.com
Open a URL in Chrome always (using the bundle identifier alternative syntax):
open -b com.google.chrome http://www.example.com
Open a URL in Chrome in an incognito window always:
From man open
, it would seem that you should be able to do it like this (but alas it does not seem to get the incognito option to Chrome):
open -a "Google Chrome" http://example.com/ --args --incognito
However, you can do it by passing the Chrome command line switches directly to the Chrome binary:
/Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome --incognito http://example.com
--incognito
- is what I came looking for, and could not find elsewhere. I was wondering how to bypass open
(which does not support chrome-extension://
) - so I could do like so, /Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome 'chrome-extension://<gobbledygook>/views/default.html#/'
... where I've copied the URL from an extension. I'm using this to open Jironimo (for JIRA) and OneTab, when I cd
into work-project directory for first time each day.
chrome://
scheme programmatically for security purposes. twitter.com/anatudor/status/1099590311540609024
Apr 16, 2021 at 18:58
this is my method.
Update ~/.bash_profile and add the chrome function below:
function chrome(){
local site=""
if [[ -f "$(pwd)/$1" ]]; then
site="$(pwd)/$1"
elif [[ "$1" =~ "^http" ]]; then
site="$1"
else
site="http://$1"
fi
/usr/bin/open -a "/Applications/Google Chrome.app" "$site";
}
Load ~/.bash_profile:
source ~/.bash_profile
Lunch chrome and open a site:
chrome www.google.com
Open a local site:
chrome LOCAL_SITE_PATH
In macos Sierra 10.12.6 .If chrome is your default browser. You can do this by
open index.html
Using chrome-cli
:
chrome-cli open <url> (Open url in new tab)
chrome-cli open <url> -n (Open url in new window)
chrome-cli open <url> -i (Open url in new incognito window)
chrome-cli open <url> -t <id> (Open url in specific tab)
chrome-cli open <url> -w <id> (Open url in new tab in specific window)