Is there any way to get the latest chrome version?
Question:
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?
Answers:
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.
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
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.
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.
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?
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.
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
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.
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.