Hello reader! . and It is a must to ensure a healthy work-life balance. You cannot just grab a laptop and keep working all day long, it will affect your health drastically. Working from home is the new normal Schedule your breaks, by far the way out. It works out well for me. In this blog post, we will learn how to build a We will see the implementation in . break Scheduler. Python . Drop a star if you find it useful! Got anything to add? Open a PR on the same! Check out the Repository for Ultimate Resource in python What will be covered in this Blog Why breaks are important & how to Utilize them? What is webbrowser Module How to build a simple breaks Scheduler using Python. Let's get started! Why breaks are important & how to Utilize them? Working from home can be a tiring desk job. You need to take care of your mental health. Well you can schedule your breaks to Take a small five-minute break every hour Drink water frequently. Stretch your muscles. Prepare Tea/Coffee or any healthy drink and take a small walk for few minutes. When you receive a non-work call, again do a little walk and talk. How do you Utilize and plan your breaks? Module Used: webbrowser Module: The module provides a high-level interface to allow displaying Web-based documents to users. Under most circumstances, simply calling the open() function from this module will do the right thing. The script can be used as a command-line interface for the module. It accepts a URL as the argument. webbrowser webbrowser If you wish to know more about it, you can refer to . Documentation webbrowser Module Now that you are familiar with and have acquired basic knowledge of we can move forward to Why breaks are important & how to Utilize them? webbrowser module, the coding section. Time to Code! You can find all the code in my . if you find it useful. GitHub Repository Drop a star In order to access the Python library, we need to import the package into our python script. Use the following command to do so. time webbrowser random choice import import from import Now that we have imported the library using the command import requests, let's proceed. Let's display a welcome message. print( ) "Initiating the Break Scheduler!" Let's ask the user to input the number of breaks he wishes to take or since you are running the script for yourself, you can also hardcode the value. breaks = input( )
print(breaks) 'input the number of times you wish to take break today! ' #breaks = 2 Now, you can set the break interval according to your need. I am setting the break interval as every hour for now. gap = * 60 60 Initially let's set the counter as zero counter = 0 Now, let's define the URL, you wish to open in the interval url = "https://www.youtube.com/c/AyushiRawat" Let's make use of `random` module to display a random message at every break interval. Let's store the messages to be displayed in messages for the same. messages = [ , ] "Time for a break!" "Let's take a break!" Our resultant data is stored in res. We will make use of the text method to extract our desired weather details and let's display the result. Now, let's run a while loop until the counter becomes equal to the number of desired breaks. (counter < breaks):
    time.sleep(gap) print(choice(messages)) webbrowser.open(url) while #Let's print the break message #opening the browser window. We will introduce sleep here to schedule the breaks. A random message will be displayed on the screen and the URL will open automatically at every interval. At last, let's increase the counter by one. counter += 1 And finally, let's display the termination message when the scripts end. print( ) "Terminating the Break Scheduler!" That's it. That all we have to do to build a simple break scheduler. And with that, it's a wrap! I hope you found the article useful! Share in the comments below. I create content about , If this is something that interests you, please share the article with your friends and connections. You can also subscribe to my newsletter to get updates every time I write something! Career, Blogging, Programming, and Productivity Thank you for reading, If you have reached so far, please like the article, It will encourage me to write more such articles. Do share your valuable suggestions, I appreciate your honest feedback! I would strongly recommend you to Check out the of the same and . YouTube video don't forget to subscribe to my Channel I would love to connect with you at | . Twitter LinkedIn Resources: docs.python.org/3/library/webbrowser.html See you in my next Blog article, Take care!!

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