Load unpacked Chrome extension programmatically

Question

Is it possible to load and unload unpacked Chrome extensions from the Command Line?

Answer 1

Try to kill all existing instances of Chrome from task manager : TASKKILL /IM chrome.exe /F and then chrome.exe --load-extension=path/to/extension should work

This working C# code for console application can help

class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            Process cmd = new Process();

            cmd.StartInfo.FileName = "cmd.exe";
            cmd.StartInfo.RedirectStandardInput = true;
            cmd.StartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = true;
            cmd.StartInfo.CreateNoWindow = true;
            cmd.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = false;

            cmd.Start();
            //kill all chrome instances
            cmd.StandardInput.WriteLine("TASKKILL /IM chrome.exe /F");
            //path to chrome.exe
            cmd.StandardInput.WriteLine("cd C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Google\\Chrome\\Application");
            //load extension
            cmd.StandardInput.WriteLine("chrome.exe --load-extension={path-to-extension}");

            cmd.StandardInput.Flush();
            cmd.StandardInput.Close();
            Console.WriteLine(cmd.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd());

        }
    }