How to download an specific browser

Contributors: Dario Kondratiuk

Problem

You need to download an use an specific browser version.

Solution

Thank to Google for testing. Now finding and downloading a specific version of Chrome is easy.

You will find the available versions here. Once you have the version you want, you can download it using the BrowserFetcher class.

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```cs
Console.WriteLine("Downloading browsers");

var browserFetcher = new BrowserFetcher(SupportedBrowser.Chrome);
var chrome118 = await browserFetcher.DownloadAsync("118.0.5993.70");
var chrome119 = await browserFetcher.DownloadAsync("119.0.5997.0");

Console.WriteLine("Navigating");
await using (var browser = await Puppeteer.LaunchAsync(new()
{
    ExecutablePath = chrome118.GetExecutablePath(),
}))
{
    await using var page = await browser.NewPageAsync();
    await page.GoToAsync("https://www.whatismybrowser.com/");

    Console.WriteLine("Generating PDF");
    await page.PdfAsync(Path.Combine(Directory.GetCurrentDirectory(), "118.pdf"));

    Console.WriteLine("Export completed");
}

await using (var browser = await Puppeteer.LaunchAsync(new()
{
    ExecutablePath = chrome119.GetExecutablePath(),
}))
{
    await using var page = await browser.NewPageAsync();
    await page.GoToAsync("https://www.whatismybrowser.com/");

    Console.WriteLine("Generating PDF");
    await page.PdfAsync(Path.Combine(Directory.GetCurrentDirectory(), "119.pdf"));

    Console.WriteLine("Export completed");
}

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