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Vladimir Dinic
Vladimir Dinic

Reputation: 23

Is there any way to get the latest chrome version?

I am writing a simple program in python and I need to get the latest release version of Chrome. But I can not find anywhere how to get the latest version of Chrome. Is there a way to get the latest release version of Chrome programmatically?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2326

Answers (4)

thorndeux
thorndeux

Reputation: 317

As the accepted answer returns the latest version of the Chromedriver, rather than Chrome, here is how you can get the latest version of Chrome:

Google's versionhistory API

Google provides an API to get information on the version history of Chrome for different platforms (Windows, Linux etc.) and channels (dev, beta, stable etc.).

The URI pattern is:

https://versionhistory.googleapis.com/v1/chrome/platforms/<platform>/channels/<channel>/versions

To get information on the latest stable version of Chrome for Linux, for example, query:

https://versionhistory.googleapis.com/v1/chrome/platforms/linux/channels/stable/versions

This will return a JSON object containing information on all versions for that platform and channel. In our example it would look like this:

{
  "versions": [
    {
      "name": "chrome/platforms/linux/channels/stable/versions/106.0.5249.119",
      "version": "106.0.5249.119"
    },
    {
      "name": "chrome/platforms/linux/channels/stable/versions/106.0.5249.103",
      "version": "106.0.5249.103"
    },
    {
      "name": "chrome/platforms/linux/channels/stable/versions/106.0.5249.91",
      "version": "106.0.5249.91"
    },
    {
      "name": "chrome/platforms/linux/channels/stable/versions/106.0.5249.61",
      "version": "106.0.5249.61"
    },
    ...
    {
      "name": "chrome/platforms/linux/channels/stable/versions/54.0.2840.71",
      "version": "54.0.2840.71"
    }
  ],
  "nextPageToken": ""
}

Get latest Chrome version with Python

import json
import requests

def get_chrome_latest_release(platform: str, channel: str):
    url = f"https://versionhistory.googleapis.com/v1/chrome/platforms/{platform}/channels/{channel}/versions"
    response = requests.request("GET", url)
    json_results = json.loads(response.text)
    return json_results['versions'][0]['version']

print(get_chrome_latest_release("linux", "stable"))

Get latest Chrome version in a script

VERSION=$(wget -q -O - https://versionhistory.googleapis.com/v1/chrome/platforms/linux/channels/stable/versions | jq -r '.versions[0].version')

Note that this requires jq for parsing the JSON response. If it is not available in your environment you install it with apt-get install jq or apk add jq. Alternatively, use another tool for parsing JSON.

Upvotes: 1

phper
phper

Reputation: 382

I just updated my browser and right now the latest version is 105.0.5195.102 however visiting that URL: https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/LATEST_RELEASE returns this: 105.0.5195.52 which clearly is NOT the latest version.

Upvotes: 0

Mario Palumbo
Mario Palumbo

Reputation: 985

This syntax will allow you to get the latest version of chromedriver:

wget -q https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/$(wget -q -O - https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/LATEST_RELEASE)/chromedriver_linux64.zip

Upvotes: 1

JM217
JM217

Reputation: 737

The official link from Chrome team. https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/LATEST_RELEASE
This gives the latest Chrome release version

I wrote a simple Python function getting the latest versions from the above source.

import requests

def get_chrome_latest_release():
    url = "https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/LATEST_RELEASE"
    response = requests.request("GET", url)
    return response.text

print(get_chrome_latest_release())

The test result is as follows.

78.0.3904.70

Hope this helps.

Upvotes: 5

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