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How to run Chrome apps via command line?

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00:00 How To Run Chrome Apps Via Command Line?
00:30 Accepted Answer Score 9
00:55 Answer 2 Score 10
01:16 Answer 3 Score 4
02:10 Thank you

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ANSWER 1

Score 10


To find the command that runs the app:

  1. Go to the Chrome Apps page (chrome://apps)
  2. Right click an icon and create shortcut on the desktop
  3. Right click an icon that appeared on the desktop and click Properties
  4. Copy the command


ACCEPTED ANSWER

Score 9


Don't really know if this will work for you as I never tested it but I found this site with many chromium command line options : http://peter.sh/experiments/chromium-command-line-switches/#app You should take a look at the --app option.

--app : Specifies that the associated value should be launched in "application" mode.

--app-id: Specifies that the extension-app with the specified id should be launched according to its configuration.



ANSWER 3

Score 4


The command is as follows:

google-chrome --user-data-dir=$HOME/.config/google-chrome \
              --profile-directory=Default \
              --app-id=$APP_ID

Note: You will need to replace $APP_ID with the exact application ID (i.e. aapocclcgogkmnckokdopfmhonfmgoek) and $HOME with the path to your home directory. You can probably omit --user-data-dir and --profile-directory if you are using default values, but this is how Google Chome implements their launchers.

You can find the application ID a number of different ways.