pybrowsers 0.1.0a5

Python library for detecting and launching browsers

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browsers

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 seem to find an equivalent library in Python

Installation

pip install pybrowsers

Usage

Python

>>> import browsers
>>> browsers.get("chrome")
{'path': '/Applications/Google Chrome.app', 'display_name': 'Google Chrome', 'version': '100.0.4896.88'}
>>> browsers.launch("chrome", url="https://github.com/roniemartinez/browsers")

TODO:

• Detect browser on OSX
• Detect browser on Linux
• Detect browser on Windows
• Launch browser with arguments
• Get browser by version (support wildcards)

References

• httptoolkit/browser-launcher
• Desktop Entry Specification
• Github: webbrowser.open incomplete on Windows
• Stackoverflow: Grabbing full file version of an exe in Python

Author

• Ronie Martinez