Python script to refresh specific tabs in chrome/chromium. Useful in build scripts when working with webservers.
Clone this repository.
Install websocket_client for Python2 using either pip install -r requirements.txt from the cloned repository or pip install websocket_client. If you have multiple versions of Python installed you may need to use pip2 instead of pip.
Start Chrome/Chromium with the flag: --remote-debugging-port=9222 as this script uses the Remote debugging protocol. (You can check if this is enabled by going to [http://localhost:9222])(http://localhost:9222). If the webpage exists, the flag is enabled.
Run chromeRefresh.py with python2. It can take the following optional arguments: python2 chromeRefresh.py [queryString] [delay] where [queryString] is a string contained in the web url in which pages will be refreshed and [delay] is a the delay before refreshing in seconds.
Example: python2 chromeRefresh.py youtube 0.25: Will refresh all tabs with the string 'youtube' in their URL after 250 milliseconds of delay.
Example: python2 chromeRefresh.py '': Will refresh all open tabs.