Simple way to download Google Chrome/Chromium source code

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I thought this would be easy but I can't find any link to a simple tar.gz/tar.bz2/zip archive.

Chrome uses some custom tools like build_depot to even download the source code. But I don't want to compile the source code, I just want to see how they do something in the source code.

So all I need is the source code download link, in the simplest possible form. Is there any way at all to find a zip archive containing all the source code, without reading howtos and building and compiling tools just to be able to download it?

Even old versions would do. I don't need to compile anything, I just need the code, and there are no download links to that.

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There's an enormous archive at https://gsdview.appspot.com/chromium-browser-official/. It contains all versions starting at 14.0, including every daily subversion (14.0.783.0, 14.0.784.0, etc), up to 75.0.3755.0 released yesterday (as of writing).

Unfortunately, the interface is paginated and contains no page jump, so you'll need ~30 clicks on Next Page to reach latest Chrome; as of writing, the quick link to latest is https://gsdview.appspot.com/chromium-browser-official/?marker=chromium-74.0.3711.0.tar.xz.hashe%40.

These tarballs are also .xz rather than .gz; the accepted answer links to a 2.2GiB download, while 75.0.3755.0 at the archive is 721MiB.

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