Open URL

Open a 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 );

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 );

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CLI

Usage

Usage: openurl [options] url

Options:

  -h,    --help                Print this message.
  -V,    --version             Print the package version.

Examples

$ openurl https://github.com
# => <pid>