{"id":129359,"date":"2022-10-31T13:39:07","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T13:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.finxter.com\/?p=854814"},"modified":"2022-10-31T13:39:07","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T13:39:07","slug":"how-to-open-a-url-in-your-browser-from-a-python-script","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2022\/10\/31\/how-to-open-a-url-in-your-browser-from-a-python-script\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Open a URL in Your Browser From a Python Script?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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To open a URL in your standard browser (Win, macOS, Linux) from your Python script, e.g., call webbrowser.open('https:\/\/google.com')<\/code> to open Google. Don’t forget to run import webbrowser<\/code> first. But you don’t have to install the module because it’s already in Python’s standard library.<\/p>\n

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Example<\/h2>\n

Here’s an example Python script that opens the URL 'https:\/\/finxter.com'<\/a><\/code>:<\/p>\n

import webbrowser\nwebbrowser.open('https:\/\/finxter.com\/')<\/pre>\n
A new browser tab with your default browser (Chrome, Edge, Safari, Brave — whatever you set up as standard browser in your OS settings) opens, initialized with the URL provided as a string argument of the webbrowser.open()<\/code> function:<\/p>\n
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About the Webbrowser Module<\/h2>\n
The webbrowser<\/a><\/code> module is already part of the Python Standard Library, so you can import it without needing to install it first. <\/p>\n
You can also run the module from your command line or terminal by using the following command:<\/p>\n
python -m webbrowser -t \"https:\/\/finxter.com\"<\/pre>\n
Good to know if you ever want to open a URL from your operating system command line or terminal (Windows, macOS, Linux, Ubuntu) because the fact that you use Python makes it portable and operating system independent!<\/p>\n
Webbrowser open()<\/h2>\n
You can specify additional arguments to get more control over which tab is opened by means of the new argument of the webbrowser.open()<\/code> function.<\/p>\n
webbrowser.open(url, new=0, autoraise=True)<\/pre>\n
The new<\/code> argument allows you to control the browser window:<\/p>\n