[yoyojojofosho]

For anyone else trying to determine how to switch between Chrome profiles on macOS, I found a superuser post [0] In short you can run:

    open -a "Google Chrome" --args --profile-directory=$NAME

where $NAME for your current Chrome profile can be found by looking at Profile Path in chrome://version. The last directory in Profile Path is $NAME. The default $NAME is "Default" and another profile could be "Profile 5".

[0] https://superuser.com/questions/377186/how-do-i-start-chrome...

[beaugunderson]

yup this is very similar to what I ended up with:

    -- open Chrome Canary with a specific named Profile
    function canaryWithProfile(profile, url)
      local t = hs.task.new("/Applications/Google Chrome Canary.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome Canary",
      nil,
      function() return false end,
      { "--profile-directory=" .. profile, url })
      t:start()
    end

    -- open Chrome with a specific named Profile
    function chromeWithProfile(profile, url)
      local t = hs.task.new("/Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome",
      nil,
      function() return false end,
      { "--profile-directory=" .. profile, url })
      t:start()
    end