Open a URL without using a browser from a batch file

Question

I want to open a particular URL without directly opening the browser using only a batch file. I know I can use something like:

START www.google.com

But I want to open a URL without using a browser. Is this possible?

The reason is that I have to open like 30 URLs, and I don't want the user to have like 30 tabs opened on his/her pc.

User · Answer

You can try put in a shortcut to the site and tell the  bat file to open that   start Google HTML exit

User · Answer

You can use this command   start  min iexplore http   www google com   With the use of  min  it will hit on the URL without opening in the browser

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If all you want is to request the URL and if it needs to be done from batch file  without anything outside of the OS  this can help you    if   This   IsBatch   then  echo off rem      batch zone                                                                setlocal enableextensions disabledelayedexpansion      rem The batch file will delegate all the work to the script engine     if not    1                wscript   E JScript    dpnx0   1            rem End of batch file area  Ensure the batch file ends execution     rem before reaching the JavaScript zone     exit  b   end           JavaScript zone                                                          Instantiate the needed component to make URL queries var http   WScript CreateObject  Msxml2 XMLHTTP 6 0        Retrieve the URL parameter var url   WScript Arguments Item 0      Make the request  http open  GET   url  false   http send        All done  Exit WScript Quit 0     It is just a hybrid batch JavaScript file and is saved as callurl cmd and called as callurl  http   www google es   It will do what you ask for  No error check  no post  just a skeleton   If it is possible to use something outside of the OS  wget or curl are available as Windows executables and are the best options available   If you are limited by some kind of security policy  you can get the Internet Information Services  IIS  6 0 Resource Kit Tools  It includes tinyget and wfetch tools that can do what you need

User · Answer

Try winhttpjs bat  It uses a winhttp request object that should be faster than Msxml2 XMLHTTP as there isn t any DOM parsing of the response  It is capable to do requests with body and all HTTP methods   call winhttpjs bat  http   somelink com something html -saveTo c  something html

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Not sure whether you have already gotten your owner solution  I have been using the following powshell command to achieve it   powershell exe -noprofile -command  Invoke-WebRequest -Uri http   your url

User · Answer

You can use the HH command to open any website.

hh <http://url>

For example,

hh http://shuvankar.com

Though it will not open the website in the browser, but this will open the website in an HTML help window.

User · Answer

You can use Wget or cURL  see How to download files from command line in Windows like wget or curl   You will then do e g    wget www google com

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