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 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?
The webbrowser
module looks promising: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jU3P7qz3ZrM
import webbrowser webbrowser.open('http://google.co.kr', new=2)
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.
To open in new tab:
import webbrowser webbrowser.open('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.
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 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!
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
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)