opening a webpage with Renpy

[kuroi]

I was thinking about the renpy help button today. That button opens an html help file in whatever browser the user has set as their default. Would it be possible to use this functionality to place a button into my game which would open my website in the user's browser instead?

[killdream]

You can use the webbrowser module to launch it. Just import it on the init section and use the open function to launch whatever page in the default browser.

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init python:
    import webbrowser

label launch_mysite:
    $ webbrowser.open("http://www.mysite.com/")

If you get an error like ("module not found") it's because Ren'Py doesn't ship with this module, so you'll have to download it manually from Python's SVN and put on your game folder.

[kuroi]

That's a ton! That's waaaaay easier than I thought it would be~

[Jo'ogn]

Wasn't there even just an {URL} tag for text?