https://github.com/caspervonb/webbrowser

Detect and launch browsers
https://github.com/caspervonb/webbrowser

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Detect and launch browsers

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/caspervonb/webbrowser
• Owner: caspervonb
• Created: 2016-01-13T13:06:07.000Z (almost 9 years ago)
• Default Branch: draft
• Last Pushed: 2016-01-16T21:29:55.000Z (almost 9 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-05-01T13:00:24.418Z (8 months ago)
• Language: Makefile
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• Size: 4.88 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: readme.md

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README

        
node-web_browser - detect and launch browsers

=============================================

The `web_browser` module provides functions for opening web content in the

user's preferred browser, detect browsers available on the user's machine and

obtaining detailed information about those browsers.

INSTALL

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The `web_browser` module is available via [npm](http://npmjs.com), the

following command will install the latest stable version of the module in your

project directory:

```sh

npm install web_browser

```

EXAMPLE

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The following example program will the url open a new window pointing to

http://github.com in the user’s preferred browser which is inferred from the

`BROWSER` environment variable:

```js

const web = require('web_browser');

web.open('http://github.com', { tab: false }, (error, ps) => {

  if (error) {

    return console.error(`${process.name}: ${error.message}`);

  }

  console.log(`http://github.com was opened with ${ps.spawnfile}`);

});

```

[View more examples](example/)

DOCUMENTATION

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[View the documentation](doc/)

LICENSE

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The project is licensed under MIT.

[View the license](license.md)