Crate webbrowser

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Open URLs in the web browsers available on a platform.

Inspired by the webbrowser python library.

Currently state of platform support is:

  • macos => default, as well as browsers listed under Browser
  • windows => default browser only
  • linux => default browser only (uses $BROWSER env var, failing back to xdg-open, gvfs-open and gnome-open, in that order)
  • android => not supported right now
  • ios => not supported right now

Important note:

  • This library requires availability of browsers and a graphical environment during runtime
  • cargo test will actually open the browser locally.

Examples

use webbrowser;

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

Structs

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.