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chrome-versions
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Database of Chrome builds and Chrome OS recovery images hosted by Google.
Currently, only Chrome OS is being worked on.
The API uses ESM for consistency and efficiency.
We provide two APIs:
dist/chrome.db
)dist/chrome.db
in the packageComplete databases can be found in the NPM package. These databases are produced on high-end workstations (16 GB memory, low latency connection to dl.google.com), however you should be able to produce them on your own machine.
See the docs for information (quickstart, how this works).
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The npm package chrome-versions receives a total of 30 weekly downloads. As such, chrome-versions popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that chrome-versions demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 0 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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