Question

I am trying to make a Python script that simply kicks me off of facebook after 10 minutes, any ideas on the best way to either terminate the browser or even better URL opened specifically?

#Stay on facebook for 10 minute session

import time
import webbrowser
import sys

webbrowser.open("http://www.facebook.com/")

time.sleep(600)
#terminate session here
sys.exit()

Thanks for the help!

Answer 1

You’d open the URL, determine what browser is was opened with, then kill it (via os.kill or similar).

Not sure how to do it with the webbrowser module, but since I guess you’re not distributing the script, you could instead open a hardcoded browser via subprocess, e.g Firefox:

import time
import subprocess

p = subprocess.Popen(["firefox", "http://www.facebook.com"])
time.sleep(600)
p.kill()