How can I open a URL in Google Chrome from the terminal in OS X?

How can I open a URL in Google Chrome from the terminal in OS X?

This is what I'm trying:

/usr/bin/open -a "/Applications/Google Chrome.app" --args '

It focuses Chrome but does not open the URL.

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10 Answers

If you remove the --args it seems to work fine, since --args can only affect things on first launch (it changes what main gets called with)

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Actually for me, the command is not working with the "--args" being present so the command working for me is

/usr/bin/open -a "/Applications/Google Chrome.app" '

OS X version: 10.6.8

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If you set Google Chrome as your default browser

open 

will just do the trick.

OS X version: 10.8.4

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You can use

open -a "Google Chrome" index.html

or, to put it in a shell script (e.g. ~/bin/chrome)

• edit the file ~/bin/chrome, and put the following in it

  open -a "Google Chrome" "$*"

• make the file executable by running the following in a terminal

  chmod 700 ~/bin/chrome

• then run the following to open a file in chrome from the terminal

  chrome /path/to/some/file

Pulled from here

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I've an alias for google

function google() { open /Applications/Google\ " $1"; }

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Get rid of the --args. open already knows how to handle URLs.

There are several helpful answers here but none that contain the complete info for opening a URL in Chrome in both cases whether it is or is not the default browser.

1. Open a URL in the default browser (could be Chrome):

   open 

2. Open a URL in Chrome always (using the app name):

   open -a "Google Chrome" 

3. Open a URL in Chrome always (using the app path alternative syntax):

   open -a /Applications/Google\ 

4. Open a URL in Chrome always (using the bundle identifier alternative syntax):

   open -b com.google.chrome 

5. Open a URL in Chrome in an incognito window always:

   From man open, it would seem that you should be able to do it like this (but alas it does not seem to get the incognito option to Chrome):

   open -a "Google Chrome" --args --incognito

   However, you can do it by passing the Chrome command line switches directly to the Chrome binary:

   /Applications/Google\ Chrome --incognito 

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this is my method.

1. Update ~/.bash_profile and add the chrome function below:

   function chrome(){ local site="" if [[ -f "$(pwd)/$1" ]]; then site="$(pwd)/$1" elif [[ "$1" =~ "^http" ]]; then site="$1" else site="" fi /usr/bin/open -a "/Applications/Google Chrome.app" "$site";
   }

2. Load ~/.bash_profile:
   source ~/.bash_profile

3. Lunch chrome and open a site:
   chrome

4. Open a local site:
   chrome LOCAL_SITE_PATH

In macos Sierra 10.12.6 .If chrome is your default browser. You can do this by
open index.html

Using chrome-cli:

chrome-cli open <url> (Open url in new tab)
chrome-cli open <url> -n (Open url in new window)
chrome-cli open <url> -i (Open url in new incognito window)
chrome-cli open <url> -t <id> (Open url in specific tab)
chrome-cli open <url> -w <id> (Open url in new tab in specific window)

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