How can I open a website in my web browser using Python

Question

I want to open a website in my local computer s web browser  Chrome or Internet Explorer  using Python   open  http   google co kr     something like this     Is there a module that can do this for me

User · Answer

You can simply simply achieve it with any python module that gives you an interaction with command line(cmd) like subprocess, os, etc. but here I came up with examples on only two modules.

Here is syntax (command) cmd /c start browser_name "URL"

Example

import os
# or open with iexplore
os.system('cmd /c start iexplore "http://your_url"')

# or open with chrome
os.system('cmd /c start chrome "http://your_url"')

__import__('subprocess').getoutput('cmd /c start iexplore "http://your_url"')

You can also run the command in the cmd it will work to or use other module call click which mainly used for writing command line utilities.

here is how

import click

click.launch('http://your_url')

User · Answer

From the doc      The webbrowser module provides a high-level interface to allow   displaying Web-based documents to users  Under most circumstances    simply calling the open   function from this module will do the right   thing    You have to import the module and use open   function  This will open https   nabinkhadka com np in the browser   To open in new tab   import webbrowser webbrowser open  https   nabinkhadka com np   new   2    Also from the doc      If new is 0  the url is opened in the same browser window if possible    If new is 1  a new browser window is opened if possible  If new is 2    a new browser page     tab     is opened if possible   So according to the value of new  you can either open page in same browser window or in new tab etc   Also you can specify as which browser  chrome  firebox  etc   to open  Use get   function for this

User · Answer

Actually it depends on what kind of uses  If you want to use it in a test-framework I highly recommend selenium-python  It is a great tool for testing automation related to web-browsers   from selenium import webdriver  driver   webdriver Firefox   driver get  http   www python org

User · Answer

import webbrowser  webbrowser open  http   www google com     The link will be opened in default web browser unless specified

User · Answer

I had this problem When I define firefox path my problem had been solved   import webbrowser urL  https   www python org  mozilla path  C   Program Files  Mozilla Firefox  firefox exe  webbrowser register  firefox   None webbrowser BackgroundBrowser mozilla path   webbrowser get  firefox   open new tab urL

User · Answer

If you want to open any website first you need to import a module called  webbrowser   Then just use webbrowser open   to open a website  e g                                                               import webbrowser   webbrowser open  https   yashprogrammer wordpress com    new  2

User · Answer

The webbrowser module looks promising  https   www youtube com watch v jU3P7qz3ZrM  import webbrowser webbrowser open  http   google co kr   new 2

User · Answer

If you want to open a specific browser  e g  Chrome and Chromium  with command line options like full screen or kiosk mode and also want to be able to kill it later on  then this might work for you   from threading import Timer from time import sleep  import subprocess import platform    Hint 1  to enable F11 use --start-fullscreen instead of --kiosk  otherwise Alt F4 to close the browser      Hint 2  fullscreen will only work if chrome is not already running  platform browser      Windows   r  C  Program Files  x86  Google Chrome Application chrome exe  --kiosk http   stackoverflow com    Linux       usr bin chromium-browser    --kiosk    http   stackoverflow com      browser   None def open browser        global browser      platform name   platform system        if platform name in  platform browser                  browser   subprocess Popen platform browser platform name       else          print   -     Timer 1  open browser  start     delayed start  give e g  your own web server time to launch  sleep 20    start e g  your python web server here instead  browser kill

User · Answer

As the instructions state  using the open   function does work  and opens the default web browser - usually I would say   why wouldn t I want to use Firefox     my default and favorite browser   import webbrowser as wb wb open new tab  http   www google com     The above should work for the computer s default browser  However  what if you want to  to open in Google Chrome   The proper way to do this is   import webbrowser as wb wb get  chrome  s   open new tab  http   www google com     To be honest  I m not really sure that I know the difference between  chrome  and  google-chrome   but apparently there is some since they ve made the two different type names in the webbrowser documentation   However  doing this didn t work right off the bat for me  Every time  I would get the error   Traceback  most recent call last   File  C  Python34 programs a temp testing py   line 3  in  lt module gt  wb get  google-chrome   File  C  Python34 lib webbrowser py   line 51  in get raise Error  could not locate runnable browser   webbrowser Error  could not locate runnable browser   To solve this  I had to add the folder for chrome exe to System PATH  My chrome exe executable file is found at   C  Program Files  x86  Google Chrome Application   You should check whether it is here or not for yourself   To add this to your Environment Variables System PATH  right click on your Windows icon and go to System  System Control Panel applet  Start - Settings - Control Panel - System   Change advanced settings  or the advanced tab  and select the button there called Environment Varaibles   Once you click on Environment Variables here  another window will pop up  Scroll through the items  select PATH  and click edit   Once you re in here  click New to add the folder path to your chrome exe file  Like I said above  mine was found at   C  Program Files  x86  Google Chrome Application   Click save and exit out of there  Then make sure you reboot your computer   Hope this helps

User · Answer

I think it should be  import webbrowser  webbrowser open  http   gatedin com     NOTE  make sure that you give http or https  if you give  www   instead of  http   instead of opening a broser the interprete displays boolean OutPut TRUE  here you are importing webbrowser library

[python] How can I open a website in my web browser using Python?

Example

here is how

Examples related to python