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Grovkillen
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Get Chrome version

Post by Grovkillen » Mon Apr 26, 2021 3:30 pm

You may need to know which Chrome version that is currently installed, especially if you're planning on automate it using the ChromeDriver.exe. Here's a snippet that will fetch that info for your:

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  Let>CHROME_EXE=C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe
  Let>RP_WINDOWMODE=0
  RunProgram>cmd /c powershell (Get-Item '%CHROME_EXE%').VersionInfo | clip
  GetClipBoard>RESPONSE,0
  Let>REGEX_PATTERN=\b(?:[0-9]{1,5}\.){3}[0-9]{1,5}\b
  RegEx>REGEX_PATTERN,RESPONSE,0,FOUND_VERSION,FOUND_MATCHES,0,,,
  If>FOUND_MATCHES>0
    Separate>FOUND_VERSION_1,.,VERSION
    Let>CHROME_major=VERSION_1
    Let>CHROME_minor=VERSION_2
    Let>CHROME_build=VERSION_3
    Let>CHROME_revision=VERSION_4
    Let>CHROME_release=FOUND_VERSION_1
  Endif>
Only "problem" with this approach is the use of the clipboard. If you have more than one script using the clipboard you may get some hard to track bugs when they cross path's. Hopefully we can get a RP_STDOUT variable populated with the result. Fingers crossed!
Let>ME=%Script%

Running: 15.0.24
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Re: Get Chrome version

Post by Enricoys » Fri Jul 23, 2021 12:22 pm

Works great, thanks. I only needed to add 'Let>RP_WAIT=1' somewhere before the 'RunProgram' line. This makes the script waiting for the RunProgram line to be finished. This is important because otherwise I observed sometimes that Clipboard was empty because it was checked to early.

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Re: Get Chrome version

Post by Grovkillen » Fri Jul 23, 2021 8:08 pm

Thanks for the feedback. Good to know!
Let>ME=%Script%

Running: 15.0.24
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