Crate webbrowser

Open URLs in the web browsers available on a platform.

Inspired by the webbrowser python library.

Examples

use webbrowser;

if webbrowser::open("http://github.com").is_ok() {
    // ...
}

Platform Support Status

Platform	Supported	Browsers	Test status
macos	✅	default + others	✅
windows	✅	default only	✅
linux/*bsd	✅	default only (respects $BROWSER env var, so can be used with other browsers)	✅
android	✅	default only	✅
wasm	✅	default only	✅
haiku	✅ (experimental)	default only	❌
ios	❌	unsupported	❌

Consistent Behaviour

webbrowser defines consistent behaviour on all platforms as follows:

• Non-Blocking for GUI based browsers (e.g. Firefox, Chrome etc.), while Blocking for text based browser (e.g. lynx etc.)
• Suppressed output by default for GUI based browsers, so that their stdout/stderr don’t pollute the main program’s output. This can be overridden by webbrowser::open_browser_with_options.

Structs

BrowserOptions

BrowserOptions to override certain default behaviour. Any option named as a hint is not guaranteed to be honoured. Use BrowserOptions::new() to create.

ParseBrowserError

The Error type for parsing a string into a Browser.

Enums

Browser

Browser types available

Functions

open

Opens the URL on the default browser of this platform

open_browser

Opens the specified URL on the specific browser (if available) requested. Return semantics are the same as for open.

open_browser_with_options

Opens the specified URL on the specific browser (if available) requested, while overriding the default options.