Refresh A Local Web Page Using Python

I'm using Python to gather some information, construct a very simple html page, save it locally and display the page in my browser using webbrowser.open('file:///c:/testfile.html')

Solution 1:

If you're going to need a refresh on the same tab, you'll need selenium webdriver. After installing selenium using pip, you can use the following code :

from selenium import webdriver
import time
import urllib
import urllib2
    
x = raw_input("Enter the URL")
refreshrate = raw_input("Enter the number of seconds")
refreshrate = int(refreshrate)
driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get("http://"+x)

whileTrue:
    time.sleep(refreshrate)
    driver.refresh()

This will open the URL and refresh the tab every refreshrate seconds

Solution 2:

I use pyautogui module to refresh the browser page. It's one liner:

import pyautogui

pyautogui.hotkey('f5') #Simulates F5 key press = page refresh

Solution 3:

Keep it very short, as simple as:

from selenium import webdriver
import time

driver = webdriver.Firefox()

driver.get('URL')
whileTrue:
    time.sleep(20)
    driver.refresh()
driver.quit()

Solution 4:

It looks like several people have asked this in the past but here is a link that sums it up.

Python refresh HTML document

But webbrowser.open( url, new=0 ) should open the page in the current window and not initialize a new one.

Solution 5:

The LivePage extension for Chrome. You can write to a file, then LivePage will monitor it for you. You can also optionally refresh on imported content like CSS. Chrome will require that you grant permissions on local file:// urls.

(I'm unaffiliated with the project.)