Applications that host this Microsoft ActiveX control can browse sites on the World Wide Web, as well as directories on the local computer and on network servers. Apr 17, 2021 The script webbrowser can be used as a command-line interface for the module. It accepts a URL as the argument. It accepts a URL as the argument. It accepts the following optional parameters: -n opens the URL in a new browser window, if possible; -t opens the URL in a new browser page (“tab”).
Source code:Lib/webbrowser.py
The webbrowser module provides a high-level interface to allow displayingWeb-based documents to users. Under most circumstances, simply calling theopen() function from this module will do the right thing.
Under Unix, graphical browsers are preferred under X11, but text-mode browserswill be used if graphical browsers are not available or an X11 display isn’tavailable. If text-mode browsers are used, the calling process will block untilthe user exits the browser.
If the environment variable BROWSER exists, it is interpreted as theos.pathsep-separated list of browsers to try ahead of the platformdefaults. When the value of a list part contains the string %s, then it isinterpreted as a literal browser command line to be used with the argument URLsubstituted for %s; if the part does not contain %s, it is simplyinterpreted as the name of the browser to launch. 1
For non-Unix platforms, or when a remote browser is available on Unix, thecontrolling process will not wait for the user to finish with the browser, butallow the remote browser to maintain its own windows on the display. If remotebrowsers are not available on Unix, the controlling process will launch a newbrowser and wait.
The script webbrowser can be used as a command-line interface for themodule. It accepts a URL as the argument. It accepts the following optionalparameters: -n opens the URL in a new browser window, if possible;-t opens the URL in a new browser page (“tab”). The options are,naturally, mutually exclusive. Usage example:
The following exception is defined:
webbrowser.Error¶Exception raised when a browser control error occurs.
The following functions are defined:
webbrowser.open(url, new=0, autoraise=True)¶Display url using the default browser. If new is 0, the url is openedin the same browser window if possible. If new is 1, a new browser windowis opened if possible. If new is 2, a new browser page (“tab”) is openedif possible. If autoraise is True, the window is raised if possible(note that under many window managers this will occur regardless of thesetting of this variable).
Note that on some platforms, trying to open a filename using this function,may work and start the operating system’s associated program. However, thisis neither supported nor portable.
Raises an auditing eventwebbrowser.open with argument url.
webbrowser.open_new(url)¶Open url in a new window of the default browser, if possible, otherwise, openurl in the only browser window.
webbrowser.open_new_tab(url)¶Open url in a new page (“tab”) of the default browser, if possible, otherwiseequivalent to open_new().
webbrowser.get(using=None)¶Return a controller object for the browser type using. If using isNone, return a controller for a default browser appropriate to thecaller’s environment.
webbrowser.register(name, constructor, instance=None, *, preferred=False)¶Register the browser type name. Once a browser type is registered, theget() function can return a controller for that browser type. Ifinstance is not provided, or is None, constructor will be called withoutparameters to create an instance when needed. If instance is provided,constructor will never be called, and may be None.
Setting preferred to True makes this browser a preferred result fora get() call with no argument. Otherwise, this entry point is onlyuseful if you plan to either set the BROWSER variable or callget() with a nonempty argument matching the name of a handler youdeclare.
Changed in version 3.7: preferred keyword-only parameter was added.
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A number of browser types are predefined. This table gives the type names thatmay be passed to the get() function and the corresponding instantiationsfor the controller classes, all defined in this module.
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Notes:
“Konqueror” is the file manager for the KDE desktop environment for Unix, andonly makes sense to use if KDE is running. Some way of reliably detecting KDEwould be nice; the
KDEDIRvariable is not sufficient. Note also thatthe name “kfm” is used even when using the konqueror command with KDE2 — the implementation selects the best strategy for running Konqueror.Only on Windows platforms.
Only on Mac OS X platform.
New in version 3.3: Support for Chrome/Chromium has been added.
Here are some simple examples:
Browser Controller Objects¶
Browser controllers provide these methods which parallel three of themodule-level convenience functions:
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controller.open(url, new=0, autoraise=True)¶Display url using the browser handled by this controller. If new is 1, a newbrowser window is opened if possible. If new is 2, a new browser page (“tab”)is opened if possible.
controller.open_new(url)¶Open url in a new window of the browser handled by this controller, ifpossible, otherwise, open url in the only browser window. Aliasopen_new().
controller.open_new_tab(url)¶Open url in a new page (“tab”) of the browser handled by this controller, ifpossible, otherwise equivalent to open_new().
Footnotes
Executables named here without a full path will be searched in thedirectories given in the PATH environment variable.
The Windows Forms WebBrowser control hosts webpages and provides web browsing capabilities to your application.
In This Section
WebBrowser Control Overview
Explains what this control is and its key features and properties.
WebBrowser Security
Explains security issues related to the control.
How to: Navigate to a URL with the WebBrowser Control
Demonstrates how to use the control to navigate to a specific URL.
How to: Print with a WebBrowser Control
Demonstrates how to print a Web page without displaying it.
How to: Add Web Browser Capabilities to a Windows Forms Application
Describes how to initialize the control for use as a Web browser.
How to: Create an HTML Document Viewer in a Windows Forms Application
Describes how to initialize the control for use as an HTML viewer.
How to: Implement Two-Way Communication Between DHTML Code and Client Application Code
Describes how to set up two-way communication between your application code and DHTML in a Web page hosted by the control.
Using the Managed HTML Document Object Model
Provides topics that describe how to manipulate or create HTML pages hosted by the WebBrowser control.
Reference
WebBrowser class
Describes this class and has links to all its members.
WebBrowserDocumentCompletedEventArgs
Describes this class and has links to all its members.
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WebBrowserDocumentCompletedEventHandler
Describes this delegate.
WebBrowserEncryptionLevel
Describes this enumeration and all its values.
WebBrowserNavigatedEventArgs
Describes this class and has links to all its members.
WebBrowserNavigatedEventHandler
Describes this delegate.
WebBrowserNavigatingEventArgs
Describes this class and has links to all its members.
WebBrowserNavigatingEventHandler
Describes this delegate.
WebBrowserProgressChangedEventArgs
Describes this class and has links to all its members.
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WebBrowserProgressChangedEventHandler
Describes this delegate.
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WebBrowserReadyState
Describes this enumeration and all its values.
WebBrowserRefreshOption
Describes this enumeration and all its values.
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