pywebview

⚡ Features

• All Clear all the cookies (including HttpOnly) with window.clear_cookies(). Sponsored by TBS
• All pywebview event handler can now have an optional window parameter that holds an instance of the Window object that triggered the event.

🚀 Improvements

• Windows Add window shadow with webview.create_window(..., shadow=True). Thanks @yllhwa

🐞 Bug fixes

• Cocoa Fix showing window
• QT Fix fetching cookies in private mode
• QT Fix blank screen in Pop! OS. Thanks @ysfchn.
• GTK Fix frameless windows having a hard-coded minimum size. Thanks @coffeejunk

🐞 Bug fixes

• All Prevent infinite recursion in nested JS API #1327
• CEF Crash due incorrect settings #1330
• QT WebEnginePage not deleted after window is closed #1328
• QT Blank screen on certain Linux systems #1325

🐞 Bug fixes

• All Python 3.7 compatibility

🚀 Improvements

• QT window position is returned in coordinates excluding the window frame to be in line with provided coordinates.

🐞 Bug fixes

• EdgeChromium CoreWebView2Settings exception in debug mode. #1323
• QT Crashing when closing additional windows #525
• QT DevTools failing to focus on open

⚡ Features

• Android support. pywebview can now be used on Android devices with help of buildozer in producing APK. #377
• DOM manipulation, traversal and events. pywebview provides a set of functions for mutating DOM nodes and traversing DOM, as well as you can subscribe to DOM events directly in Python. #1218
• Application settings webview.settings. You can now override default behaviour of pywebview by modifying this dictionary. Currently configurable settings include.

webview.settings = {
    'ALLOW_DOWNLOADS': False, # Allow file downloads
    'ALLOW_FILE_URLS': True, # Allow access to file:// urls
    'OPEN_EXTERNAL_LINKS_IN_BROWSER': True, # Open target=_blank links in an external browser
    'OPEN_DEVTOOLS_IN_DEBUG': True, # Automatically open devtools when `start(debug=True)`.
}

• Support for file downloads. To enable file downloads, set webview.settings['ALLOW_DOWNLOADS'] = True. Disabled by default.
• Full path support for file drag n drop. To get a full path of the dragged file, pywebview introduces event['domTransfer']['files'][0]['pywebviewFullPath'] value in the drop event caught on the Python side. To subscribe to the event you use window.dom.document.events.drop += on_drop.
• window.maximize() - maximize window.

🚀 Improvements

• All A more powerful JS data serializer capable of handling different data types and detecting circular references #1217
• All Nested JS API support. See examples/js_api.py for details. Thanks @AlecHaring
• All BREAKING: window.get_elements returns a list of instances of a new Element object.
• All BREAKING: evaluate_js throws a webview.errors.JavascriptException if executed codes raises an error
• Windows WebView2 control updated to 1.0.2045.28
• Windows Add SSL support for local HTTP server.
• GTK Update deprecated code

🐞 Bug fixes

• Cocoa Suppress secure coding is not enabled for restorable state warning. Thanks @awesomo4000
• EdgeChromium Background color not available in webview2. Thanks @Vanthys
• EdgeChromium Multiple focus events on window show. Thanks @yllhwa
• GTK Fallback for Webkit4.0 if 4.1 not found. Thanks @starnight.
• QT Fix user agent string. #1256 Thanks @TransparentLC.
• QT Solve the blank main window issue on RHEL9. Thanks @justincui #1266
• QT Submenu actions firing incorrectly #1318

🐞 Bug fixes

• GTK Fallback for WebKit 4.0 if 4.1 not found.

🐞 Bug fixes

• Cocoa Window not retaining focus on keystrokes. #1187
• Cocoa App crashing when closing fullscreen window. #1236
• Cocoa Video keeps playing after closing window. #1235
• Cocoa Uploaded file is empty if filename contains a space. #1231
• Cocoa Return value of confirmation dialog created by window.confirm. #976
• Windows Fullscreen application disappearing after disconnecting extended display. #1229

🚀 Improvements

• All Don't start http server for file:// urls. Thanks @glorpen
• GTK Bump WebKit2 to 4.1. Thanks @starnight
• Windows Disable swipe navigation #1230
• Windows Window is changed to fullscreen on the current monitor in a multi-monitor setup.

🐞 Bug fixes

• [QT] Fix QT implementation

🐞 Bug fixes

• [Winforms] Fix easy_drag from being always enabled.

🐞 Bug fixes

• [Cocoa] Add missing maximized implementation

⚡ Features

• [All] webview.create_window(maximized=False) Create a window in a maximized state. Thanks @vsajip
• [All] webview.create_window(screen=screen_instance) Create a window on a specific monitor, where screen is a screen returned by window.screens. Thanks @louisnw01
• [All] Window title can be obtained / set via window.title.

🚀 Improvements

• [All] Window closing event fired after closing confirmation #1178. Thanks @p4bl0-
• [All] Improve performance of JS API calls by removing the initial delay of 100ms.
• [GTK] Native JS Bridge. HTTP server based JS bridge is removed.
• [GTK] Remove support for Webkit older than 2.2

🐞 Bug fixes

• [All] Easy drag memory leak #1176
• [Winforms] Easy drag support #1125
• [Winforms] Incorrect DPI scaling
• [Winforms] Private mode not working if webview.screens is returned before webview.start #1193
• [QT] Add no sandbox for arch/manjaro/nixos to avoid white screen problem #890. Thanks @myuanz
• [GTK] Closing event handlers cancellation. Thanks @p4bl0-
• [GTK] SEGFAULT on second webview.start() call #1063. Thanks @PercentBoat4164

• [All] Fix 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'start_server'. #1159

🐞 Bug fixes

• [All] Fix installation.

⚡ Features

• [All] webview.create_window(focus=False) to create a non-focusable window. Thanks @mi4code #1030.

🚀 Improvements

• [All] Modernization of project infrastructure + typing. Thanks @demberto.
• [Winforms] Top level menu item support. Thanks @zhengxiaoyao0716.
• [Winforms] Disable touchpad elastic overscroll. Thanks @firai.

🐞 Bug fixes

• [Winforms] Unable to load DLL 'WebView2Loader.dll': The specified module could not be found. Thanks @kawana77b #1078
• [Cocoa] Add missing pip dependency pyobjc-framework-security.

Released 02/05/2023

⚡ Features

• [Cocoa/QT/GTK] SSL support for built-in http server webview.start(ssl=True). Thanks @keredson

🚀 Improvements

• [All] JS API exceptions are now printed both in Python and Javascript consoles.
• [All] Hide menu bar when there is no menu. Thanks @Joffreybvn

🐞 Bug fixes

• [All] Fix bug where http_port was not being forwarded to the actual window #1060. Thanks @robb-brown
• [All] Switch from tempfile to os.devnull to fix PyInstaller issue. Thanks @simonrob
• [Cocoa] Fix getting cookies in cocoa. Thanks @eerimoq
• [Cocoa] Fix exception occurring when main menu for application cannot be obtained.
• [Windows] A more robust logic for setting user data directory. Thanks @al-eax
• [Windows] Fix exception when executing a menu function
• [Windows] Fix the title and message of the confirmation dialog. Thanks @zhengxiaoyao0716

🚀 Improvements

• [All] HTTP server is now multithreaded. This should prevent stalled requests. #1025
• [Windows] webview.start(storage_path) can now be set in private mode. This can be useful if you do not have write access to EdgeChromium default data directory and get 0x80070005 (E_ACCESSDENIED) error. #1026

🐞 Bug fixes

• [All] Fix AttributeError: module 'webview.http' has no attribute 'running' exception occurring when multiple windows are opened. Thanks @YidaozhanYa. #1024
• [Winforms] Fix on_top not having any effect on Windows. #1036
• [Winforms] Fix create_window(hidden=True) makes the show() command not work #1050
• [Windows] Fix pyinstaller compatibility on Windows. Thanks @simonrob #1044
• [CEF] Fix window.get_cookies() throwing KeyError exception. #1021
• [Cocoa] Fix non-QWERTY keyboard shortcuts. Thanks @max-uho
• [QT] Fix web inspector preventing to open. #1028
• [GTK] Fix "ImportError: Requiring namespace 'Soup' version '2.4', but '3.0' is already loaded" Thanks @YidaozhanYa #1041

🚀 Improvements

• [All] Suppress HTTP server logging if not in debug mode.

🐞 Bug fixes

• [All] Fix HTTP server starting twice with a single window. Thanks @robb-brown.

💔 BREAKING CHANGES

• [All] Window events are moved into window.events namespace. window.loaded, window.shown etc no longer work.
• EdgeHTML support is removed.

⚡ Features

• [All] Local homegrown HTTP server is replaced with bottle.py. Thanks @robb-brown for WSGI support.
• [All] Native application menu support. See examples/menu.py for usage example. Thanks @sardination
• [All] webview.start(private_mode=True, storage_path=None) Private mode and persistant storage support in a non-private mode. Private mode is enabled by default.
• [All] webview.create_window(zoomable=False) Enable / disable zooming on webpage. Disabled by default.
• [All] webview.create_window(draggable=False) Enable / disable dragging of IMG and A elements. Disabled by default.
• [All] webview.create_confirmation_dialog(title, content) creates a confirmation (Ok, Cancel) dialog. Thanks @sardination.
• [All] window.get_cookies() retrieve all the cookies (including HttpOnly) for the current webpage.
• [macOS] webview.create_window(vibancy=False) Window vibrancy suppport. macOS only. Thanks @CahierX.

🚀 Improvements

• [All] Local relative URLs (eg. src/index.html) are opened using the built-in http server by default. Support for local URLs is still possible using file:// schema
• [Cocoa] Disable Ctrl+click context menu. Thanks @ecpost.
• [EdgeChromium] Improve evaluate_js performance.
• [GTK] Enable media / audio / WebGL / clipboard related WebKit features

🐞 Bug fixes

• [Cocoa] Fix passing through keyboard events handled by pywebview. Thanks @ecpost.
• [GTK] Fix JS bridge maximum return object size limitation. GTK's JS bridge is implemented via HTTP server.
• [GTK] Fix hanging problem during window closing when JS evaluation is in progress

Released 16/11/2022

🐞 Bug fixes

• [All] Fix missing libraries from the previous release

🚀 Improvements

• [Windows / Linux] Devtools is automatically opened in debug mode.
• [EdgeChromium] Browser shortcut keys are disabled by default

🐞 Bug fixes

• [Edge Chromium] Better platform detection

🚀 Improvements

• [Edge Chromium] ARM64 support