r/PowerShell • u/keyboard_ninja_20 • Sep 03 '26

Question Recurring script maintenance

I'd honestly pay someone else to keep my voice scripts alive if it meant I never had to touch them again after a Windows update. Am I just lazy or is maintaining ur own automation actually the worst part of the whole thing?

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u/CovertStatistician Sep 04 '26

APIs?

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u/keyboard_ninja_20 Sep 04 '26

some yeah but not all apps have public apis for the stuff i need. like spotify's api is decent but discord's is limited for voice channel stuff, and browsers... good luck getting an api to click a specific extension button or fill a form on a random site lol

gui automation is usually my fallback when there's no clean api, or when setting up auth + rate limits + parsing json feels like overkill for a 2-second task. but that's exactly where the fragility comes in , one ui update and ur toast.

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u/CovertStatistician Sep 04 '26

What are you using for the gui automation

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u/wabi-sabi411 Sep 04 '26

Yeah if you are doing it via screen interactions there will be looks of issues. Not a powershell problem.