HansHammel / node-open

open a file or uri with the users preferred application (browser, editor, etc), cross platform

open

Open a file or url in the user's preferred application.

Node usage

var open = require("open");
open("http://www.google.com");

open takes an optional argument specifying the program to be used to open the file or URL.

open("http://www.google.com", "firefox");

NPM script usage

{ ...
  "scripts: {
    ...
    "browser": "node-open http://www.google.com",
    "firefox": "node-open http://www.google.com firefox",
    ...
  },
  ...
}

With development profile

```javascript
open("http://www.google.com", "firefox", "-P development");

Getting Error from program (null if success)

open("http://www.google.com", "firefox", "-P development", function(Error){
  console.log(Error);
});

Installation

npm install open

How it works

• on win32 uses start
• on darwin uses open
• otherwise uses the xdg-open script from freedesktop.org

Warning

The same care should be taken when calling open as if you were calling child_process.exec directly. If it is an executable it will run in a new shell.