The webbrowser module in Python provides an interface to display Web-based documents.
Webbrowser
Under most circumstances, simply calling the open() function from this module will do the right thing.
IN Unix, graphical browsers are preferred under X11, but text-mode browsers will be used if graphical browsers are not available or an X11 display isn’t available.
If text-mode browsers are used, the calling process will block until the user exits the browser.
Usage Examples
webbrowser.open_new(url)
Open url in a new window of the default browser, if possible, otherwise,
open url in the only browser window.
webbrowser.open_new_tab(url)
Open url in a new page (“tab”) of the default browser, if possible,
otherwise equivalent to open_new().
Webbrowser Script
This example will ask the user to enter a search term. A new browser tab will open with the search term in googles search field.
import webbrowser
google = raw_input('Google search:')
webbrowser.open_new_tab('http://www.google.com/search?btnG=1&q=%s' % google)
The script webbrowser can be used as a command-line interface for the module. It accepts an URL as the argument.
It accepts the following optional parameters:
- -n opens the URL in a new browser window
- -t opens the URL in a new browser page (“tab”)
Recommended Python Training
For Python training, our top recommendation is DataCamp.