pybrowsers 0.2.0

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

Import

import browsers

List all installer browsers

import browsers

print(list(browsers.browsers()))
# [('chrome', {'path': '/Applications/Google Chrome.app', 'display_name': 'Google Chrome', 'version': '100.0.4896.127'}), ('firefox', {'path': '/Applications/Firefox.app', 'display_name': 'Firefox', 'version': '99.0.1'}), ('safari', {'path': '/Applications/Safari.app', 'display_name': 'Safari', 'version': '15.4'}), ('opera', {'path': '/Applications/Opera.app', 'display_name': 'Opera', 'version': '85.0.4341.60'}), ('msedge', {'path': '/Applications/Microsoft Edge.app', 'display_name': 'Microsoft Edge', 'version': '100.1185.22041544'})]

Get browser information

import browsers

print(browsers.get("chrome"))
# {'path': '/Applications/Google Chrome.app', 'display_name': 'Google Chrome', 'version': '100.0.4896.88'}

Launch browser

import browsers

browsers.launch("chrome")

Launch browser with URL

import browsers

browsers.launch("chrome", url="https://github.com/roniemartinez/browsers")

Launch browser with arguments

import browsers

browsers.launch("chrome", args=["--incognito"])

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