PyQt5 browser

QWebView class simplified

PyQt5 supports a widget that displays websites named QWebView.

QWebView uses the Webkit rendering engine The web browser engine is used by Safari, App Store and many OS X applications.

The load() method opens the url (QUrl) in the argument. You can create a QUrl using: QUrl(url).

The show() method is required to display the widget.

Related course:
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Installation

To use this widget you may need to install an additional package:

sudo apt-get install python3-pyqt5.qtwebkit

PyQt5 webkit example

The example below loads a webpage in a PyQt5 window.

#!/usr/bin/env python
import sys
from PyQt5 import QtCore, QtGui, QtWidgets
from PyQt5.QtCore import *
from PyQt5.QtGui import *
from PyQt5.QtWidgets import *
from PyQt5.QtWebKit import *
from PyQt5.QtWebKitWidgets import *
from PyQt5.QtWidgets import QApplication, QWidget, QMainWindow
app = QApplication(sys.argv)
web = QWebView()
web.load(QUrl("https://pythonspot.com"))
web.show()
sys.exit(app.exec_())

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