Open a link in an Incognito Window in Google Chrome

Question

Is there any way to do this through Java or Javascript, given the link as a String? I've been looking but I've only found topics about Android devices, I'm asking for a Windows PC.

I hadn't planned on learning how to write an extension with the proper permissions for Chrome for this, but if that's the only way then so be it.

Answer 1

To run any executable including Chrome in JAVA:

If the path to the application is a system variable:

String location = System.getenv("APPVARIAVLE");
Process process = new ProcessBuilder(location).start(); 

Or if you want to use the fully qualified path:

Process process = new ProcessBuilder("C:\\location\\MyApp.exe").start();

The JavaDoc for the process builder say that you can add parameters like this:

new ProcessBuilder("myCommand", "myArg1", "myArg2");

The argument for incognito looks like it is: "-incognito" and to open a url just add the url: "example.com".

Which means that you can most likely can add the url and incognito arguments the following way to chrome in the arguments:

Process process = new ProcessBuilder("C:\\YourChrome\\Location\\chrome.exe","-incognito","http://stackoverflow.com").start();