Call to operating system to open url?

python linux url operating-system
Bolster picture Bolster · Nov 18, 2010 · Viewed 62.7k times · Source

What can I use to call the OS to open a URL in whatever browser the user has as default? Not worried about cross-OS compatibility; if it works in linux thats enough for me!

Answer

kobrien picture kobrien · Nov 18, 2010

Here is how to open the user's default browser with a given url:

import webbrowser

webbrowser.open(url[, new=0[, autoraise=True]])

Here is the documentation about this functionality. It's part of Python's stdlibs:

http://docs.python.org/library/webbrowser.html

I have tested this successfully on Linux, Ubuntu 10.10.

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