Opening Several Tabs In Firefox Using Python

I spend about a minute typing the names of the 10 to 15 sites I usually check first thing in the morning into Firefox. This is a 'considerable' waste of my time, so why not automat

Solution 1:

The way webbrowser works in the background consists of creating subprocess.Popen objects. This has two underlying effects that map directly with the reported results:

• If Firefox is open, as webbrowser detects that Firefox is already running, it sends the correct argument to Popen, which results in every URL opening in the current Firefox window.

• If no Firefox process exists, then what happens is that several concurrent requests are being made to Firefox to access the passed URLs. As no window exists, there isn't a way to create tabs and the last option Firefox has is to present every link in a separate window.

I managed to solve this problem by simply joining all URL's while calling Firefox. This has certain limitations though (referent to the character limit of a command string) but it is a very simple and efficient solution:

import subprocess
firefox_path = "C:/Program Files/Mozilla Firefox/firefox.exe"
cmdline = [firefox_path]
withopen('url_list.txt', 'r') as url_file:
    for url in url_file:
        cmdline.append(url)
subprocess.Popen(cmdline)

Solution 2:

A way to do it without hard-coding the browser path is to open the first one, wait a few seconds, and then open the rest:

import webbrowser, time
withopen('url_list.txt', 'r') as url_file:
    urls = [line.strip() for line in url_file]
webbrowser.open(urls[0])
time.sleep(4)
for url in urls[1:]:
    webbrowser.open_new_tab(url)

Solution 3:

driver = webdriver.Ie("C:\\geckodriver.exe")
binary = FirefoxBinary('usr/bin/firefox') # Optional
driver = webdriver.Firefox(firefox_binary=binary) # Optionaldriver.get("http://www.google.com")
driver.maximize_window()