How to open websites in background and then close without interrupting flow of program using python?

Question

I want to open a particular video in the background using python. For that, I have done the following coding

 chrome= "C:/Program Files (x86)/Google/Chrome/Application/chrome.exe %s"
 webbrowser.get(chrome).open_new("https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFNUeUed8Ro&ab_channel=NDTV")
 time.sleep(4)
 os.system("taskkill /im chrome.exe /f")**

but after opening the URL program does not continue until I manually close the site. And if I beforehand open the chrome browser all works well. But that is not what I want.

I want to open it in the background because I only need audio as my project is for blind people's entertainment which opens sites using gestures only then close using the same.

Answer 1

I suggest you use Selenium instead of Webbrowser package as it has more functionality.

Install Selenium package using

pip install selenium

Download Chrome webdriver which matches your version of Chrome from

https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/downloads

Place the driver .exe file where you python script is located

Try this script

import selenium
import time
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC

browser = webdriver.Chrome()
wait = WebDriverWait(browser, 3)
visible = EC.visibility_of_element_located

browser.get('https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFNUeUed8Ro&ab_channel=NDTV')
wait.until(visible((By.ID, "video-title")))
browser.find_element_by_id("video-title").click()
browser.minimize_window()
time.sleep(7)
browser.quit()

Don't use time.sleep() in Opencv capture loop because it blocks the capture. If you want to use time delays consider using separate thread. Look at

https://www.tutorialspoint.com/python/python_multithreading.htm