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Rickard Körkkö
Rickard Körkkö

Reputation: 558

Open webbrowser in background

How can I open a URL with my default webbrowser in the background without changing window focus?

In other words I want to stay in the terminal while opening the webbrowser.

I have tried the webbrowser module without success.

Python 3.8.1 (default, Jan 17 2020, 10:45:46)
>>> import webbrowser
>>> webbrowser.open("https://stackoverflow.com", autoraise=False)

Is there an easy way to solve this or is it a Mac OS problem?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 7368

Answers (3)

Sasho Ristovski
Sasho Ristovski

Reputation: 147

You should use selenium and download chrome driver instead and add headless option for your chrome browser.

from selenium import webdriver
import time


chrome_options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
chrome_options.add_argument('--disable-notifications')
chrome_options.add_argument("--headless")
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path="/Users/mypc/Downloads/chromedriver-2",options=chrome_options)

# or you can use Chrome(executable_path="/usr/bin/chromedriver")

driver.get("https://www.instagram.com/accounts/login/")
time.sleep(2)

Upvotes: 1

Farhoud
Farhoud

Reputation: 91

You can use subprocess.check_output and pass terminal command as an array:

in mac terminal open command will do the work for you

import subprocess
#subprocess.check_output(['ls','-l']) #all that is technically needed...
#in open documention in terminal you can use --hide to run in background
print subprocess.check_output(['open','http://google.com/','--hide'])

Upvotes: 0

Kaustubh Ghole
Kaustubh Ghole

Reputation: 577

instead of webbrower module you can try:

import subprocess

url = subprocess.getoutput("google-chrome-stable https://stackoverflow.com")
url

Upvotes: 1

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