node-mac-detect-browsers

Detect web browsers on macOS from Node.js or Electron via a native module

Installing

npm install node-mac-detect-browsers

API

detect([callback]) (macOS only)

• callback Receives an error, if any, and an array of results sorted by the name property.

Each result is an object with the following properties:

• name string
• path string – absolute path to executable
• default bool (optional) – indicates the default application

Note: an error occurs if no browsers were found.

Usage

In main process:

const { detect } = require("node-mac-detect-browsers");
detect((err, results) => {
	if (err) {
		console.error(err);
	}
	console.log(results);
});

or async:

(async () => {
	try {
		const browsers = await detect();
		console.log(browsers);
	} catch (err) {
		console.error(err);
	}
})();

Example output:

[
	{
		"name": "Arc",
		"path": "/Applications/Arc.app"
	},
	{
		"name": "Brave Browser",
		"path": "/Applications/Brave Browser.app"
	},
	{
		"name": "Chromium",
		"path": "/Applications/Chromium.app"
	},
	{
		"name": "Firefox",
		"path": "/Applications/Firefox.app"
	},
	{
		"name": "Google Chrome",
		"path": "/Applications/Google Chrome.app"
	},
	{
		"default": true,
		"name": "Safari",
		"path": "/System/Volumes/Preboot/Cryptexes/App/System/Applications/Safari.app"
	},
	{
		"name": "Tor Browser",
		"path": "/Applications/Tor Browser.app"
	}
]

License

MIT License

Acknowledgements

• RSWeb, part of NetNewsWire