How to make your own web browser in Python.

Saptakbhoumik
2 min readApr 8, 2021

In this tutorial we create our own web browser, using Python. We also will be using the PyQt5 and PyQtWebEngine library.

What is PyQt5?

PyQt is a Python binding of the cross-platform GUI toolkit Qt, implemented as a Python plug-in. PyQt is free software developed by the British firm Riverbank Computing. PyQt5 is licensed under GPL v3 and a commercial license(For closed sourced software)

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What is PyQtWebEngine?

PyQtWebEngine is a set of Python bindings for The Qt Company’s Qt WebEngine framework. The framework provides the ability to embed web content in applications and is based on the Chrome browser. The bindings sit on top of PyQt5 and are implemented as three separate modules corresponding to the different libraries that make up the framework.

Requirements

You need Python3x to make your web browser.

Getting Started

Open the terminal or command prompt and type in the following command and press enter

pip3 install PyQt5 sip PyQtWebEngine

The code

Save this code as app.py . To run the code open the terminal or command prompt in the directory where you have saved your app.py file and type in the following command and press enter.

python3 app.py

Results

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Conclusion

Congratulations, you have made your own web browser😁😁😁.

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