chrome-profile-list

> Get a list of existing Google Chrome, Google Chrome Canary or Chromium user profiles

Install

``
npm install chrome-profile-list
`

Usage

`
var chromeProfileList = require('chrome-profile-list');
console.log(chromeProfileList());

// Something like this is logged to the console:

[ { displayName: 'User',
profileDirName: 'Default',
profileDir: '/Users/username/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default',
profilePictureUrl: 'https://x.googleusercontent.com/path/to/profile/picture.jpg' },
{ displayName: 'Guest',
profileDirName: 'Guest Profile',
profileDir: '/Users/username/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Guest Profile',
profilePictureUrl: null },
{ displayName: 'Person 1',
profileDirName: 'Profile 1',
profileDir: '/Users/username/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Profile 1',
profilePictureUrl: 'https://x.googleusercontent.com/path/to/profile/picture.jpg' } ]
`

Supported environments

- node.js

Supported operating systems

This module follows the conventions described by https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/HEAD/docs/user_data_dir.md
so it provides support for macOS, Windows and Linux (mileage may vary).

API

$3

Returns an array of objects ({ name, path}) one for each available profile excluding the default System Profile.

#### arguments

variant
One of chromeProfileList.variants, defaults to CHROME

$3

An enum of possible variants to search profiles for:

- CHROME
- CANARY
- CHROMIUM

Example:

`
var chromeProfileList = require('chrome-profile-list');

console.log(chromeProfileList(chromeProfileList.variants.CHROMIUM));

// Logs a list of available chromium profiles to the console
``

Author

Israel Roldan

Related

- chrome-profile-list-cli a CLI for this module

LICENSE

ISC