How to close an internet tab with cmd/Python?

Question

So I'm writing a Python script to open internet links using cmd. For example:

import os
os.system('start http://stackoverflow.com/')
os.system('start http://www.google.com/')
os.system('start http://www.facebook.com/')

After I open them I do:

import time 
time.sleep(60)

So I can wait a minute before doing anything else. What I can't seem to find anywhere is a way to close these tabs after I have opened them for 60 seconds? Is there a command I can use to close internet tabs in cmd?

Note: I'm using Windows 8, Python 2.7.9, and Google Chrome

Solution 1

You can start processes and then kill them after 60 seconds.

from subprocess import Popen, check_call

p1 = Popen('start http://stackoverflow.com/')
p2 = Popen('start http://www.google.com/')
p3 = Popen('start http://www.facebook.com/')

time.sleep(60)
for pid in [p1.pid,p2.pid,p3.pid]:
    check_call(['taskkill', '/F', '/T', '/PID', str(pid)])

replacing-os-system

If you want to open a browser with three tabs then close I would use selenium or something similar:

import time
from selenium import webdriver


dr = webdriver.Chrome()

dr.get('http://stackoverflow.com/')
dr.execute_script("$(window.open('http://www.google.com/'))")
dr.execute_script("$(window.open('http://facebook.com/'))")

time.sleep(5)
dr.close()
dr.switch_to.window(dr.window_handles[-1])
dr.close()
dr.switch_to.window(dr.window_handles[-1])
dr.close()

chromedriver, selenium

Solution 2

You can simply use the keyboard shortcuts:

import keyboard

# here goes your code... 

keyboard.press_and_release('ctrl+w') # closes the last tab

This will just close the last tab, not all (or as many as you want, starting from the last)

Solution 3

from selenium import webdriver  
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
import time

browser = webdriver.Firefox()
browser.get('http://stackoverflow.com')
main_window = browser.current_window_handle

Open new tab

browser.find_element_by_tag_name('body').send_keys(Keys.CONTROL + 't')
browser.get('http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/django')

Wait 10 sec and close the new tab.

time.sleep(10)

Close New tab. The first tab remains open.

browser.find_element_by_tag_name('body').send_keys(Keys.CONTROL + 'w')

Solution 4

Chrome got it's own process and resource management. the lifecycle of a new chrome.exe <url> is short. a new chrome process communicate and passes the new tab request to another chrome process and exits immediately. therefore the PID of the new chrome.exe is irrelevant and killing it will not going to close the newly opened tabs (as suggested in the sibling answer).

However, You can use this Naive alternative:

1. open chrome.exe <url>
2. wait 60 secs
3. close all chrome.exe processes

for example:

from subprocess import Popen
import time

urls = ['http://www.facebook.com/', 'http://www.google.com/']

for url in urls:
    Popen(['start', 'chrome' , url], shell=True)

time.sleep(60)

Popen('taskkill /F /IM chrome.exe', shell=True)

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Note - it will close ALL of your chrome instances

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