How to download and reuse Chrome from a custom location

Contributors: Bilal Durrani

Problem

You want to download Chrome in a custom folder and you want to reuse Chrome from a location where it was previously downloaded instead of from the default location.

Solution

Use BrowserFetcherOptions to specify the full path for where to download Chrome.

var browserFetcherOptions = new BrowserFetcherOptions { Path = downloadPath };
using var browserFetcher = new BrowserFetcher(browserFetcherOptions);
await browserFetcher.DownloadAsync(BrowserFetcher.DefaultRevision);

Use Puppeteer.LaunchAsync() with LaunchOptions with the LaunchOptions.ExecutablePath property set to the fully qualified path to the Chrome executable.

var options = new LaunchOptions { Headless = true, ExecutablePath = executablePath };

using (var browser = await Puppeteer.LaunchAsync(options))
using (var page = await browser.NewPageAsync())
{
    // use page
}