Go lib to open a link with the default web browser in the background. Works on Mac, Linux and Windows.

On Windows and Mac, the cmd and open utilities are installed by default, so there's no additional requirement necessary. For linux distributions, the xdg-utils package is required to open the browser window. xdg-utils is required for Linux Standards Base (LSB) conformance, so it should be available on most distributions of Linux.

This project is a copypasta of pkg/webbrowser from the workflow-cli project which we worked on at Deis. Chocolates and flowers should be sent to @Joshua-Anderson for all his hard work figuring out the right commands to invoke the default web browser from the terminal.

package main

import (
	"log"

	"github.com/bacongobbler/browser"
)

func main() {
	if err := browser.Open("https://example.com"); err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}
}

$ go get github.com/bacongobbler/browser
$ go run main.go