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Is there any way to open a browser window with a specified URL, then close the browser at a later point?

Jonathan Leffler
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Yes, use python's builtin webbrowser module for this.

>>> import webbrowser
>>> url = 'http://www.python.org/'
>>> webbrowser.open_new(url)
RanRag
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    Which opens, but doesn't provide for closing. – W00t May 26 '12 at 20:30
  • You can check [this link](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3369073/controlling-browser-using-python) for other alternatives. – RanRag May 26 '12 at 20:38
  • @W00t: Can you please explain the context of your problem as to what you are really trying to achieve by opening and closing browser tabs. – RanRag May 26 '12 at 20:47
  • I'm attempting to load a list of sites with a 60 second delay in between, but the sites cannot be open alongside each other. – W00t May 26 '12 at 20:49
  • ok suppose you open `5 pages` at a delay of `60 seconds` so while closing the webpages you want to close them `one by one` or all at once. – RanRag May 26 '12 at 20:52
  • One by one, as each window cannot be open while another window from my script is open – W00t May 26 '12 at 20:56
  • So, we can do one thing open the 1st url , do the stuff it has to do and than kill that process using python and after 60 sec repeat the above process with 2nd url. – RanRag May 26 '12 at 21:02
  • clicking q while on the page should do – Nour Wolf Dec 16 '13 at 18:58
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The webbrowser module, the easiest way to open a browser window, does not provide a way to close a browser window that it has opened.

For this level of control, try the Selenium module. It's a bit more involved, but offers more control.

Here's an example they give of opening and closing a page: 

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys

browser = webdriver.Firefox()

browser.get('http://www.yahoo.com')
assert 'Yahoo' in browser.title

elem = browser.find_element_by_name('p')  # Find the search box
elem.send_keys('seleniumhq' + Keys.RETURN)

browser.quit()
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