Notes

Source: 📖 Python Cookbook ch13.15 p563


Launching a web browser

A web browser can easily be launched with the webbrowser module.


import webbrowser

webbrowser.open('http://www.runescape.com')		# Opens in default browser

More specific behaviours can also be defined.


webbrowser.open_new('http://www.runescape.com')			# Opens in new window
webbrowser.open_new_tab('http://www.runescape.com')		# Opens new tab

firefox = webbrowser.get('firefox')						# Use specific browser
firefox.open('http://www.runescape.com')

This is a quick and easy way to launch a browser. For more advanced browser usage, see [Selenium](https://selenium-python.readthedocs.io/).