Setting the Default Search Provider on Chrome via a script

Question

I am attempting to set various Google Chrome preferences via a script (on both OS X and Windows). I can successfully set a number of preferences, and add bookmarks, by editi

Answer 1

as mentioned, you should edit the 'Web Data' file, which is an sqlite database.

To add a search engine, add an entry to the 'keywords' table.
To change the default search engine, edit the 'Default Search Provider ID' value inside the 'meta' table.