With WebKit GTK, how do I open a link in an external browser?

Question

I am writing an application using the GTK implementation of WebKit and Python. In my app I render some links but when the user clicks the link in my WebKit view it loads the linked page inside the webkit view. I instead want the link to open in the system's default web browser.

Any idea?

Answer 1

First you want to intercept when the user clicks on any link rendered by webkit. See navigation-policy-decision-requested.

Second you want to reject that request and make a request to the host OS to open the requested link using the default browser. For that you can see this issue as a starting point.