flask-desktop-app.py

from flask import Flask, render_template, request
import webbrowser
from threading import Timer

app = Flask(__name__)

@app.route('/')
def index():

    title = 'Google Map Place Scraper'
    return render_template('index.html', title=title)




def open_browser():
    webbrowser.open_new('http://127.0.0.1:5000/')


if __name__ == '__main__':
    Timer(1, open_browser).start();
    app.run(port=5000)