# Install chrome-launcher with npm

Launch latest Chrome with the Devtools Protocol port open. Version 1.2.1 via npm; verified 2025-09-25.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install npm:chrome-launcher
```

Additional install commands:

### Portable and language managers

- npm (100%):

```sh
npm install -g chrome-launcher
```

  Evidence: local npm package metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** npm:chrome-launcher
- **Package manager:** npm
- **Package manager page:** <https://www.npmjs.com/package/chrome-launcher>
- **Version:** 1.2.1
- **Source summary:** Launch latest Chrome with the Devtools Protocol port open
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/GoogleChrome/chrome-launcher#readme>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/GoogleChrome/chrome-launcher>
- **Upstream docs:** <https://github.com/GoogleChrome/chrome-launcher#readme>
- **License:** Apache-2.0
- **Source archive:** <https://registry.npmjs.org/chrome-launcher/-/chrome-launcher-1.2.1.tgz>
- **Issue tracker:** <https://github.com/GoogleChrome/chrome-launcher/issues>
- **Published:** 2025-09-25T18:37:51.391Z
- **Last updated:** 2025-09-25T18:37:51.391Z
- **Generated:** 2026-07-08T07:18:31+00:00

## Executables

- print-chrome-path (cli)
- print-chrome-path (alias)

## Dependencies

- @types/node
- escape-string-regexp
- is-wsl
- lighthouse-logger

## Build dependencies

- @types/mocha
- @types/sinon
- clang-format
- mocha
- sinon
- ts-node
- typescript

## Install behavior

- Post-install hook: not defined
- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-07-08
- Package-manager version: 1.2.1
- Package-manager updated: 2025-09-25
- Local data: ok
- Upstream repository: https://github.com/GoogleChrome/chrome-launcher
- notice: The package-manager record has not changed recently.
- info: No cached GitHub release or tag data was available.

## Security Notes

No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for chrome-launcher. Nucleus package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.


## Source Database Details

- **Source Database:** npm registry
- **Dist Tags:** Latest: 1.2.1
- **Version Count:** 44
- **Maintainers:** paulirish, brendankenny, hoten, adamraine
- **Author:** The Chromium Authors
- **Publisher:** paulirish
- **Engines:** Node: >=12.13.0
- **Integrity:** sha512-qmFR5PLMzHyuNJHwOloHPAHhbaNglkfeV/xDtt5b7xiFFyU1I+AZZX0PYseMuhenJSSirgxELYIbswcoc+5H4A==
- **Shasum:** a84877c123192bdadb40dc274b74caf164e98032
- **Unpacked Size:** 137,582
- **File Count:** 0
- **Created At:** 2017-05-14T21:07:27.321Z
- **Latest Published At:** 2025-09-25T18:37:51.391Z
- **Modified At:** 2025-09-25T18:37:51.581Z


## Related links

- [MCP tool packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/mcp-tools/) - Matched curated package taxonomy and local package facts.
- [chromium-edge-launcher](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/npm/chromium-edge-launcher/) - Both packages touch the same language runtime or ecosystem. Shared terms: devtools, escape, escape-string-regexp, is-wsl, latest.
- [lighthouse](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/npm/lighthouse/) - Both packages touch the same language runtime or ecosystem. Shared terms: chrome, chrome-launcher, devtools, launcher, lighthouse.
- [chrome-devtools-mcp](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/chrome-devtools-mcp/) - Both packages touch the same language runtime or ecosystem. Shared terms: chrome, devtools, node.

## Sources

- Nucleus package database
- package-page enrichment
- package version freshness
- package relationship graph
- cross-ecosystem install command graph