Opening Firefox Via the webbrowser Module + RPA Tools
webbrowser is a convenient Python standard library module. It opened my Firefox browser on my Ubuntu Linux operating system running on a Chromebook. This code is adapted from a Python Examples blog post. Below is a list of other browsers you can open with webbrowser. At the bottom of this post, you'll find more tools to interact with browsers and GUIs programmatically.
import webbrowser firefox_sh = "/usr/lib/firefox/firefox.sh" webbrowser.register("firefox", None, webbrowser.BackgroundBrowser(firefox_sh)) url = "https://lofipython.com" webbrowser.get("firefox").open_new_tab(url) print(webbrowser._browsers)
| Type Name | Class Name |
|---|---|
| 'mozilla' | Mozilla('mozilla') |
| 'firefox' | Mozilla('mozilla') |
| 'netscape' | Mozilla('netscape') |
| 'galeon' | Galeon('galeon') |
| 'epiphany' | Galeon('epiphany') |
| 'skipstone' | BackgroundBrowser('skipstone') |
| 'kfmclient' | Konqueror() |
| 'konqueror' | Konqueror() |
| 'kfm' | Konqueror() |
| 'mosaic' | BackgroundBrowser('mosaic') |
| 'opera' | Opera() |
| 'grail' | Grail() |
| 'links' | GenericBrowser('links') |
| 'elinks' | Elinks('elinks') |
| 'lynx' | GenericBrowser('lynx') |
| 'w3m' | GenericBrowser('w3m') |
| 'windows-default' | WindowsDefault |
| 'macosx' | MacOSX('default') |
| 'safari' | MacOSX('safari') |
| 'google-chrome' | Chrome('google-chrome') |
| 'chrome' | Chrome('chrome') |
| 'chromium' | Chromium('chromium') |
| 'chromium-browser' | Chromium('chromium-browser') |
Check out these other browsergui automation tools:
- pyautogui
- Selenium
- RPA for Python
- robotframework
- TagUI
- Sikuli
- Open RPA
- Power Automate
- PhantomJS
- SlimerJS
see also: | Robot Process Automation | Things You Can Do With a Browser in 2020