Building a Custom Web Browser in PyQt5 - A Step-by-Step Guide with Code
Introduction: In this tutorial, we will be building a custom web browser using the PyQt5 library and the QWebEngineView class. PyQt5 is a set of Python bindings for the Qt libraries, and QWebEngineView provides a widget for displaying web pages. We will be using the QMainWindow class to create the main window for our browser, and the QLineEdit, QToolBar, and QPushButton classes for the address bar, toolbar, and buttons. Step 1: Setting up the Environment Before we begin coding our browser, we need to make sure we have the necessary libraries installed. The PyQt5 library can be installed using the pip package manager with the command " pip install PyQt5 ". Step 2: Creating the Browser Class import sys from PyQt5 . QtCore import QUrl , QFile , QTextStream from PyQt5 . QtWidgets import QApplication , QMainWindow , QLineEdit , QToolBar , QPushButton from PyQt5 . QtWebEngineWidgets import QWebEngineView , QWebEngine