Open URL

Open a URL.

Installation

npm install @stdlib/utils-open-url

Usage

var openURL = require( '@stdlib/utils-open-url' );

openURL( url )

Opens a URL in a user's default browser.

var proc = openURL( 'https://google.com' );

The returned child process is unreferenced, and, thus, the calling process will not wait for the child process to end before exiting. To try and end the child process, send an appropriate kill signal.

var proc = openURL( 'https://google.com' );

function close() {
    proc.kill( 'SIGINT' );
}

setTimeout( close, 1000 );

Web Browser

In a web browser, openURL defers to the window.open() method.

openURL( url )

Opens a URL either in a new tab or window (based on the web browser and/or user preferences), returning a reference to a window object.

var win = openURL( 'https://google.com' );

Examples

var openURL = require( '@stdlib/utils-open-url' );

// Open a URL:
var proc = openURL( 'https://github.com' );

// After some time, kill the spawned process...
function close() {
    proc.kill( 'SIGINT' );
}

setTimeout( close, 5000 );

See Also

• @stdlib/utils-open-url-cli: CLI package for use as a command-line utility.

Notice

This package is part of stdlib, a standard library for JavaScript and Node.js, with an emphasis on numerical and scientific computing. The library provides a collection of robust, high performance libraries for mathematics, statistics, streams, utilities, and more.

For more information on the project, filing bug reports and feature requests, and guidance on how to develop stdlib, see the main project repository.

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License

See LICENSE.

Copyright

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