How to get chrome version using command prompt in windows

As of today user4851's is still working. I took a look at his linked bug report and the proposed work around did not work for me anymore.

Anways a new hkey is present in my directory which allows you to query the chrome version without being aware of the actual installation location:

reg query "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\Chrome\BLBeacon" /v version

There's a bug filed about this: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=158372

Original Answer (but see the update below)

What works for me is

wmic datafile where name="C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Google\\Chrome\\Application\\chrome.exe" get Version /value

It prints

Version=67.0.3396.99

surrounded by some blank lines.

There are some other suggestions in the bug comments, like querying the registry.

Update

Someone from the Chromium team posted this "totally unsupported" batch file in the bug comment thread:

@ECHO OFF:: Look for machine-wide Chrome installs (stable, Beta, and Dev).:: Get the name, running version (if an update is pending relaunch), and:: installed version of each.FOR %%A IN (    {8A69D345-D564-463c-AFF1-A69D9E530F96},    {8237E44A-0054-442C-B6B6-EA0509993955},    {401C381F-E0DE-4B85-8BD8-3F3F14FBDA57}) DO (  reg query HKLM\Software\Google\Update\Clients\%%A /v name /reg:32 2> NUL  reg query HKLM\Software\Google\Update\Clients\%%A /v opv /reg:32 2> NUL  reg query HKLM\Software\Google\Update\Clients\%%A /v pv /reg:32 2> NUL):: Look for Chrome installs in the current user's %LOCALAPPDATA% directory:: (stable, Beta, Dev, and canary).:: Get the name, running version (if an update is pending relaunch), and:: installed version of each.FOR %%A IN (    {8A69D345-D564-463c-AFF1-A69D9E530F96},    {8237E44A-0054-442C-B6B6-EA0509993955},    {401C381F-E0DE-4B85-8BD8-3F3F14FBDA57},    {4ea16ac7-fd5a-47c3-875b-dbf4a2008c20}) DO (  reg query HKCU\Software\Google\Update\Clients\%%A /v name /reg:32 2> NUL  reg query HKCU\Software\Google\Update\Clients\%%A /v opv /reg:32 2> NUL  reg query HKCU\Software\Google\Update\Clients\%%A /v pv /reg:32 2> NUL)

That should probably be seen as the right way to go for the time being.

I tried Kilian's answer, however in my case, I was running it against a bunch of machines remotely via a service, so I don't think HKEY_CURRENT_USER was valid:

ERROR: The system was unable to find the specified registry key or value.

Assuming you know where the exe is, you can try a different approach and read the version property of the exe file:

# Older versions install to the 32-bit directory(Get-Item "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe").VersionInfo# Newer versions use the 64-bit directory(Get-Item "C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe").VersionInfoProductVersion   FileVersion      FileName--------------   -----------      --------76.0.3809.100    76.0.3809.100    C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe

Note that this is a Powershell script

To using it in cmd.exe or via any subprocess calls (python, go os/exec, etc.) you can do,

powershell -command "&{(Get-Item "Absolute\path\to\chrome.exe").VersionInfo.ProductVersion}"