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

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?

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

import webbrowser

webbrowser.open("http://www.google.com")

The link will be opened in default web browser unless specified

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)

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()

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)

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')

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")

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 <module>
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!

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.