webbrowser

webbrowser

webbrowser provides a simple API for opening web pages on your default browser. It's inspired on Python's webbrowser package but lacks some of its features (open new window).

It just opens a webpage, most browsers will open it on a new tab.

Installation

Copy & Paste fans: go get github.com/toqueteos/webbrowser

Usage

Import the package (once you have installed it):

import "github.com/toqueteos/webbrowser"

Then use the Open function.

webbrowser.Open("http://golang.org")

That's it!

Need a full blown example? Checkout [examples/simple.go].

Already disliking it?

No problem! There's alternative libraries that may be better to your needs:

• https://github.com/pkg/browser, it does what webbrowser does and more!
• https://github.com/skratchdot/open-golang, it even provides a xdg-open implementation in case you don't have it!

Crossplatform support

The package is guaranteed to work on windows, linux and darwin. It also has default support for freebsd, openbsd and netbsd but these three have not been tested yet (that I'm aware of).

License

It is licensed under the MIT open source license, please see the [LICENSE.txt] file for more information.

Thanks...

Miki Tebeka wrote a nicer version that wasn't on godoc.org when I did this, check it out!.