A little python script to refresh a given URL every 10 seconds

refreshUrl.py

#! /usr/bin/env python3

import webbrowser
from time import sleep

url = input('Input the URL to reload, including "http://: ')

while True:
    print("refreshing...")
    webbrowser.open(url, new=0)
    sleep(10)

Heads up, this script may open a new tab on every refresh... It's not supposed to, but it is on my machine

Yes, this does open up new tabs.
But thanks for the code.

What does new=0 do ? In line 10

What does new=0 do ? In line 10

According to the documentation, it means “reuse an existing window”, but that has never seemed to work reliably.

I think it is to not open a new tab each time we refresh.
But please correct me if I am wrong.

But even if we use new=0, this opens up new tabs everytime

This script is basically written to open a url which is given above in the script.
So new=0 opens the url in new tab.
new=1 opens the url in new window.

This code is five years old and has never really worked properly - if you’re looking for this functionality, my suggestion (provided with no warranty or assumption of liability) is https://gitlab.com/alanramsey/auto-reload-tab

I found that just using the auto GUI (pyautogui) and using it to automatically press f5 is better. First pip install pyautogui then use the following:

import pyautogui
import time

for i in range(number of times you want to refresh):
    time.sleep(refreshrate in seconds)
    pyautogui.hotkey('f5')