NAME

App::Browser - OS independent interface to a browser

SYNOPSIS

use App::Browser;

browse('raku.org');             # visit the Raku web site with default browser

browse('raku.org', 'firefox');  # visit the Raku web site with Firefox

DESCRIPTION

App::Browser provides a simple generic interface to starting a browser for a given URL. It exports the browse function that takes a URL as the first parameter, and an optional browser identification as a second parameter (which defaults to the APP_BROWSER environment variable).

The browse function returns a Proc object, or Nil if something went wrong. Whether it makes sense to do something with that object, is unsure.

It also exports a command line script browse that will take a URL and an optional browser identifier (e.g. chrome, firefox, safari).

$ browse raku.org

$ APP_BROWSER=chrome browse raku.org

$ browse raku.org firefox

WORK IN PROGRESS

Please note that this is a continuing work in progress. At the moment of this writing, only MacOS is supported. Specifically the different ways of opening browsers on Windows and the various tastes of Linux will need some experienced users to get this right.

AUTHOR

Elizabeth Mattijsen liz@raku.rocks

Source can be located at: https://github.com/lizmat/App-Browser . Comments and Pull Requests are welcome.

If you like this module, or what I’m doing more generally, committing to a small sponsorship would mean a great deal to me!

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the Artistic License 2.0.