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.
Copy & Paste fans: go get github.com/toqueteos/webbrowser
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].
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!
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).
It is licensed under the MIT open source license, please see the [LICENSE.txt] file for more information.
Miki Tebeka wrote a nicer version that wasn't on godoc.org when I did this, check it out!.