# webbrowser [](https://travis-ci.org/toqueteos/webbrowser) [](http://godoc.org/github.com/toqueteos/webbrowser) [](https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/toqueteos/webbrowser?badge) webbrowser provides a simple API for opening web pages on your default browser. It's inspired on [Python's webbrowser](http://docs.python.org/3/library/webbrowser.html) 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 As simple as: ```bash go get -u github.com/toqueteos/webbrowser ``` ## Usage ```go package main import "github.com/toqueteos/webbrowser" func main() { webbrowser.Open("http://golang.org") } ``` That's it! ## Crossplatform support The package works on: - [x] `android` (verified by 3rd party) - [x] `darwin` - [x] `freebsd` (verified by 3rd party) - [x] `linux` - [x] `netbsd` (verified by 3rd party) - [x] `openbsd` (verified by 3rd party) - [x] `windows` ## License It is licensed under the MIT open source license, please see the [LICENSE.md](https://github.com/toqueteos/webbrowser/blob/master/LICENSE.md) file for more information. ## Thanks... Miki Tebeka wrote a nicer version that wasn't on godoc.org when I did this, [check it out!](https://bitbucket.org/tebeka/go-wise/src/d8db9bf5c4d1/desktop.go?at=default). ## 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!