simple-open-url

A simple cli for open a web page url from a command line.

This is helpful to open urls in npm scripts.

Note: This tool is used for a limited cross platform env usage,
if you run command only on one platform, use the native
open commands instead.
E.g, if you are using Windows 10, maybe you use start <URL>.
If you are using a Mac, open <URL> is perfect for you.

Currently supported platforms:

• AIX
• Darwin
• FreeBSD
• Linux
• OpenBSD
• SunOS
• Win32

Usage

For cli use

Install:

# for global
npm install --global simple-open-url

# or
# for development
npm install --dev simple-open-url

Run the following command in npm script to open a url:

# single url
simple-open-url <URL>

# or, multiple urls
simple-open-url <URL 1> <URL 2> <URL more ...>

# run once by using npx
npx simple-open-url <URL>
npx simple-open-url <URL 1> <URL 2> <URL more ...>

For lib use

Install dependency.

npm i simple-open-url

Use in your code.

const {canOpenUrl, openUrl} = require('simple-open-url')

const myUrl = 'https://github.com/codinggirl'
if (canOpenUrl) {
    openUrl(myUrl)
} else {
    console.log('Could not perform an open action.')
}

LICENSE

© 2019-2020 Richard Libre.

The MIT License.