How to Launch Chrome Using a Profile from CLI

I keep my work and user profiles separate on my Mac. I wanted an easy way of opening a notion page to make a note using a macro on my Stream Deck. I often am in my user profile when I want to make a note, so I needed to open Chrome from the commandline using a particular one. Here’s how you do that.

open -a "Google Chrome" https://duckduckgo.com --args --profile-directory=Profile 2

The names Chrome uses for the --profile-directory argument are not what you might think. They’re not as listed in the Profile dropdown menubar. Finding out what they’re named is a bit convoluted using Chrome alone.

However, you can find out the name of the profiles on your Mac using jq:

cat ~/Library/Application\ Support/Google/Chrome/Local\ State | jq -r '.profile.info_cache|to_entries|map(.key + ": " + .value.name)|.[]' | sort -k2,2n

Here’s what that might look like locally:

Default: Person 1
Profile 2: [niftydigits.com](http://niftydigits.com/)

Source: https://superuser.com/questions/377186/how-do-i-start-chrome-using-a-specified-user-profile#377195