Question

i am trying to lunch multiple urls from a text file in Firefox via python. i am using win7 OS & python 3. i need some direction to pass the argument to Firefox.

import os
import subprocess

f = open ('C:\\Users\\test\\Desktop\\urls.txt','r')
data = f.read()
print(data)
# i need some help here to pass this argument to Firefox.
f.close()

urls.txt

http://www.abc.com
http://www.xyz.com/test
http://www.abc.net/test.html
http://www.test.com
http://www.msn.com

Answer 1

Use the webbrowser module.

import webbrowser
firefox = webbrowser.get('firefox')
for url in data.split('\n'):
    firefox.open_new_tab(url)

If you don’t want to enforce a particular browser and just start the default one, use webbrowser.open_new_tab.

The webbrowser module isn’t very reliable, especially on Windows, so you might have to start the process manually using the subprocess module:

import subprocess
firefox_path = 'C:/Program Files/Firefox/firefox' # change this line accordingly
for url in data.split('\n'):
    subprocess.Popen([firefox_path, url])

Also, Firefox supports multiple URLs in the command line, so the following solution is better for it:

import subprocess
urls = open('C:/Users/test/Desktop/urls.txt').read().split('\n')
subprocess.Popen(['C:/Program Files/Firefox/firefox']+urls)