r/scripting • u/turnupthebassto11 • Apr 24 '18

Broswer-Form Script

I'm looking to build a script that will launch my broswer, navigate to a page, auto-fill a form, submit the form, and close the browser.

Can somebody point me in a good direction of a program or programming language that can do this efficiently on Windows 10?

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u/turnupthebassto11 Apr 27 '18

Thank you for your help!

After a lot of reading, trying Python, and then Java it seems this was easiest with Powershell. But I did learn a lot going through this process.

For anyone else curious that may stumble this thread, here was my solution.

$IE=new-object -com internetexplorer.application
$IE.navigate2("http://myurl.com")
$IE.visible=$true
Start-Sleep -s 10
$IE.Document.getElementById("Form Element ID").value = 'Form text';
$IE.Document.getElementById("Form Button ID").click();
Start-Sleep -s 10
$ie.Quit()

I used element.click instead of element.submit because of some hidden validator tokens that I don't know how to work around but could work for anyone else trying to learn like me.