opening URL in browser with python (not headless)

Question

I am not taking about headless browser.

I am writing an script, when a directory get a new file, it will open an url, when the file deleted from directory, it will open another url.

My Script is below:

import os, time


def folderListener(mydir):
    old_list = len(os.listdir(mydir))
    new_list = 0
    while True:
        new_list = len(os.listdir(mydir))
        if old_list != new_list:
            old_list = new_list
            print('OPen first url in chrom browser')
        else:
            print('Open 2nd URL in Chrome Browser')
        time.sleep(2)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    mydir = os.getcwd() + '/testdir'
    folderListener(mydir)

The script working very nice, now i need to it in the script when print function place. i mean, it should open an URL on Chrome Browser instead, no headless chrome browser.

os.startfile(url) (probably only Windows), os.system("chrome url"), webbrowser.open(url), selenium.webdriver.Chrome().get(url) — furas
– furas, Commented Apr 27, 2019 at 3:38

majidarif · Accepted Answer · 2019-04-27 03:37:52Z

1

You could look into webbrowser.

Used like:

import webbrowser

url = "http://mywebsite.com"

webbrowser.open_new(url) # open in default browser
webbrowser.get('safari').open_new(url) # open in safari if available
webbrowser.get('firefox').open_new_tab(url) # open in firefox if available
webbrowser.get(using='google-chrome').open_new(url) # open in chrome if available

But considering you tagged selenium-webdriver you could also do this:

from selenium import webdriver

url = "http://mywebsite.com"

driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get(url)

answered Apr 27, 2019 at 3:37

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