home-assistant.io/source/_integrations/browser.markdown

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title	description	ha_category	ha_release	ha_iot_class	ha_quality_scale	ha_domain	ha_integration_type	related
Browser	Instructions on how to setup the browser integration with Home Assistant.	Utility	pre 0.7	Local Push	internal	browser	integration	docs title /docs/configuration/ Configuration file

The Browser {% term integration %} provides a service to open URLs in the default browser on the host machine.

Configuration

To load this integration, add the following lines to your {% term "configuration.yaml" %} file. {% include integrations/restart_ha_after_config_inclusion.md %}

# Example configuration.yaml entry
browser:

Services

Once loaded, the browser platform will expose {% term services %} that can be called to perform various {% term actions %}.

Available services: browser/browse_url.

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

Usage

To use this {% term 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.