pybrowsers 0.6.0

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browsers
Python library for detecting and launching browsers
Why?
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.
Installation
pip install pybrowsers

Features

Detect browser on OSX
Detect browser on Linux
Detect browser on Windows
Launch browser with arguments
Launch and get browser by version with wildcard support

Usage
Import
import browsers

List all installed 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'}]

Get browser information
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'}

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"])

Specifying version
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

References

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

Contributors ✨
Thanks goes to these wonderful people (emoji key):





Ronie Martinez💻 🤔 📖 🚧
Sergey Pirogov🐛





This project follows the all-contributors specification. Contributions of any kind welcome!