Automating Internet Explorer

[JonathanChan]

Hello...

I'm interested in automating an IE window to submit data to a form (log in for me automatically), but I want to do it from IE, not by Send()... I found a way to do it in VB Script; can Autoit somehow send VBScript commands?

the code in VBscript is

Dim WshShell, oIE
Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

    Set oIE = CreateObject("InternetExplorer.Application")
    oIE.navigate "about:blank" 
    oIE.document.body.innerHTML= _
    "<Form name=frm1 id=frm1 action=" & args.Item(0) & " METHOD=POST><input type=text name=UserID value=" & $username & "><input type=text name=password value=" & $password & "><input type=submit></form>"
    oIE.document.frm1.submit()
    wscript.sleep 1000
    oIE.Visible = True
    WScript.Quit 1

btw, i don't want to run the vbscript because i want to compile this autoit script and distribute it as 1 file...

JonathaN ChaN

Edited August 13, 2005 by JonathanChan

[DaleHohm]

This can readily be done with straight AutoIt code with the COM interface in the latest beta, but you may want to check out the IE Automation UDF Library. I takes care of things like waiting for the page load to complete before moving to the next command.

Your code would be something like this:

#include <IE.au3>

$username = "your-username"
$password = "your password"
$oIE = _IECreate()
_IEBodyWriteHTML($oIE, "<Form name=frm1 id=frm1 action=" & $CmdLine[1] & " METHOD=POST><input type=text name=UserID value=" & $username & "><input type=text name=password value=" & $password & "><input type=submit></form>")
_IEFormSubmit(_IEFormGetObjByName($oIE, "frm1"))
_IEQuit($oIE)

Exit

Dale

Edit: added lines for Username and Password not in vbs example, added missing object reference in _IEBodyWriteHTML

Edited August 13, 2005 by DaleHohm

[JonathanChan]

This can readily be done with straight AutoIt code with the COM interface in the latest beta, but you may want to check out the IE Automation UDF Library.  I takes care of things like waiting for the page load to complete before moving to the next command.

Your code would be something like this:

#include <IE.au3>

$username = "your-username"
$password = "your password"
$oIE = _IECreate()
_IEBodyWriteHTML($oIE, "<Form name=frm1 id=frm1 action=" & $CmdLine[1] & " METHOD=POST><input type=text name=UserID value=" & $username & "><input type=text name=password value=" & $password & "><input type=submit></form>")
_IEFormSubmit(_IEFormGetObjByName($oIE, "frm1"))
_IEQuit($oIE)

Exit

Dale

Edit: added lines for Username and Password not in vbs example, added missing object reference in _IEBodyWriteHTML

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Looks promising... How "beta" is the latest AutoIt with COM support? Maybe i'll wait till it's in the regular tree... boy! Autoit becomes as powerful as any language more and more each day.... and in my opinion, much less confusing and more concise than VB or any other scripting languages i've looked at...

[DaleHohm]

In my opinion, the beta is very solid. The beta is pretty mature now -- there is a lot of active testing of it here and the devs are fantastic about quickly fixing issues once they have been uncovered.

Your milage may vary, but the new features are well worth the investment for me and I have had very little trouble with the beta.

Dale