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The browser component provides a service to open URLs in the default browser on the host machine.

To load this component, add the following lines to your configuration.yaml:

# Example configuration.yaml entry
browser:

{% linkable_title Service browser/browse_url %}

Service data attribute	Optional	Description
url	no	The URL to open.

{% linkable_title Usage %}

To use this service, choose Call Service from the Developer Tools. Choose the service browser/browse_url from the list of Available services: and enter the URL into the Service Data field and hit CALL SERVICE.

{"url": "http://www.google.com"}

This will open the given URL on the host machine.