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Python library for detecting and launching browsers
I recently wrote a snippet for detecting installed browsers in an OSX machine in
https://github.com/mitmproxy/mitmproxy/issues/5247#issuecomment-1095337723 based on https://github.com/httptoolkit/browser-launcher
and I thought this could be useful to other devs since I cannot find an equivalent library of httptoolkit/browser-launcher in Python
and the known webbrowser standard library does not support arguments.
pip install pybrowsers
import browsers
import browsers
print(list(browsers.browsers()))
# [{'browser_type': 'chrome', 'path': '/Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome', 'display_name': 'Google Chrome', 'version': '100.0.4896.127'}, {'browser_type': 'firefox', 'path': '/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox', 'display_name': 'Firefox', 'version': '99.0.1'}, {'browser_type': 'safari', 'path': '/Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/Safari', 'display_name': 'Safari', 'version': '15.4'}, {'browser_type': 'opera', 'path': '/Applications/Opera.app/Contents/MacOS/Opera', 'display_name': 'Opera', 'version': '85.0.4341.60'}, {'browser_type': 'msedge', 'path': '/Applications/Microsoft Edge.app/Contents/MacOS/Microsoft Edge', 'display_name': 'Microsoft Edge', 'version': '100.1185.22042050'}]
import browsers
print(browsers.get("chrome"))
# {'browser_type': 'chrome', 'path': '/Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome', 'display_name': 'Google Chrome', 'version': '100.0.4896.127'}
import browsers
browsers.launch("chrome")
import browsers
browsers.launch("chrome", url="https://github.com/roniemartinez/browsers")
import browsers
browsers.launch("chrome", args=["--incognito"])
The get() and launch() functions support specifying version in case multiple versions are installed.
Wildcard pattern is also supported.
import browsers
print(browsers.get("chrome", version="100.0.4896.127")) # complete version
# {'browser_type': 'chrome', 'path': '/Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome', 'display_name': 'Google Chrome', 'version': '100.0.4896.127'}
print(browsers.get("chrome", version="100.*")) # wildcard
# {'browser_type': 'chrome', 'path': '/Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome', 'display_name': 'Google Chrome', 'version': '100.0.4896.127'}
browsers.launch("chrome", version="100.0.4896.127") # complete version
browsers.launch("chrome", version="100.*") # wildcard
Thanks goes to these wonderful people (emoji key):
 Ronie Martinez 💻 🤔 📖 🚧 |  Sergey Pirogov 🐛 |
This project follows the all-contributors specification. Contributions of any kind welcome!
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Python library for detecting and launching browsers
We found that pybrowsers demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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