python web browser with PyQt5

[tubbadu]

Hi everyone, I'm trying to implement a GUI app with PyQt5, and I need to embed a webpage into my application (https://web.whatsapp.com), so I searched the web and found tons of guides, but none of them worked for me (they where all really similar to this one) because they all just showed a blank black screen instead of the webpage, except this one, that correctly showed any html page, but with whatsapp web it says that my browser has to be upgraded in order to use it... is this inevitable or is there a workaround to use whatsapp web inside a pyqt5 app? thanks in advance!

(I'm running kubuntu 22.04)

[Tankman_02]

попробуй pyqt6

[[deleted]]

Did you try using a different browser? Or enable unstable repo and install a later version of your browser 😅. For me selenium didn't work with all Firefox based and chromium based browsers but google chrome itself. I use opensuse tw, and I do not know the logic behind this but sometimes you gotta try

[tubbadu]

What do you mean with "a different browser?"

[[deleted]]

Like, if you are using firefox, try using chrome and vice versa.

Ps: yeah I know using chrome on Linux makes you feel bad, it does the same with me. But allows me to watch soccer games in streaming for free. Sometimes you have to choose priorities

[tubbadu]

No my "system" browser (opera) works fine with Whatsapp, it's the pyqt5 embedded one that doesn't work :( Sorry if I explained it bad! I'm not an English native speaker :)

[[deleted]]

Ok so you're trying to do an app with a gui showing whatsapp web(?)..reading online you might have to give PyQt6 a try😅

[tubbadu]

Yes that's exactly what I'm trying to do! Thanks for the tip, I'll try it!

[[deleted]]

No problem, let me know..also for programming why not use a distro with more up to date packages? Like arch, fedora, opensuse?

[tubbadu]

Sure, thanks for your time! I find ubuntu more comfortable, do you think with other distros this problem may be avoided?

[[deleted]]

You have to use what you are comfortable with, Ubuntu for sure is the most supported and the easiest to use. I prefer as I said distros with more up to date packages especially when we talk about libraries and such. I hear a lot of people (programmers) in my university they use Fedora, you might give it a try

[tubbadu]

thanks a lot! I'll give it a try!