Getting "control ids, names" from IE

[SorryButImaNewbie]

Sorry to come here with such a question (this is going to be my trademark it seems).

I'm writing a script now to stress test a webpage (not DoS, my company wants to test our supplier:) )

I never done that with autoit but i seems to get a handle on it quickly enough,but i have a problem.

How do I learn the pages buttons names or ids, so I can interact with them?

Local $oLoginButton = _IEGetObjById($oIE, "login_button")
_IEAction($oLoginButton, "click")

how do I know/learn the "login_button" name as the browser refar to the button? I can probably mine it out from the sourcecode, but that would take an immense amount of time compared to, well anything.

 

Edit: and by mining, I mean search for it manually, I know only a few professinaly sounding words about datamining

 

Thank you guys! I hope others may find my questions usefull one day

Edited January 6, 2015 by SorryButImaNewbie

[computergroove]

Autoit has a info tool that will tell you control names. Look in your autoit installation directory. It's called Au3Info.exe.

[SorryButImaNewbie]

Yeh but in a browser it only says Internet Explorer_Server (as it should) on the entire browser 

[MikahS]

What is the error you're receiving with this code?

Local $oLoginButton = _IEGetObjById($oIE, "login_button")
_IEAction($oLoginButton, "click")

[Bert]

Autoit has a info tool that will tell you control names. Look in your autoit installation directory. It's called Au3Info.exe.

That does not work for web pages.

use this:

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=18359

[alienclone]

http://www.debugbar.com/

[SorryButImaNewbie]

Thank you guys! I go with Bert's suggestion (I dont want to talk with IT security to check debugbar and etc, company standard) but thanks for it alienclone.

I only learnt unfourtunetly what i manually found from the HTML code.

what should i do If there are more then 1 control with the same class? I think there should be an index or something, that allows to differentiate between the controls, but can't find it.

I would like to click on a link (image basicly if im right) with something like this

Local $oLinks = _IELinkGetCollection($Explorer)
        For $oLink In $oLinks
            Local $sMyString = "somethingsomething"
            Local $sLinkText = _IEPropertyGet($oLink, "innerText")
            If StringInStr($sLinkText, $sMyString) Then
                _IEAction($oLink, "click")
                ExitLoop
            EndIf
        Next

so what if there are 4 "somethingsomething"? The only thing that is different is the link they send me. (href)

An other code i try is

If $x = 1 And $y = 1 Then
        $oLink = _IEGetObjById($Explorer, "/vasarlas?kategoria=d1&ervenyesseg=2") ;A tovább gombra nyomás a címbeállítás után
        _IEAction($oLink, "click")
        _IELoadWait($Explorer);MsgBox(0, "Teszt","Itt vagyok!")
    EndIf

where I tried to use the link's string to identify the link, but it doesnt work

[SorryButImaNewbie]

Okey I tried both, but they gave me no usefull information regarding the controls, no names/ids what ever. I doubt that they have any... what can i do?

[SmOke_N]

Do you know what an "id" is (_IEGetObjByID())?

Because, I'm pretty sure: "/vasarlas?kategoria=d1&ervenyesseg=2" is not an ID.

I'm also pretty sure that if you're using AutoIt at work to program, that your IT department won't have an issue allowing you to install a tool that allows you to get all the information you're looking for.  And will be thankful that you're running code on their machines that you've used the proper tools to find the correct values for.

If you're not doing the programming at work, then download the tool, use the green drag icon to drag over (and drop) on the control/link/etc you want to work with.  Within the innertext it will give you the data you need.

The only other option you're going to get really is to post the url you're working with, for those of us that do have the proper tools (eg. debugbar) can take a look.

Edited January 7, 2015 by SmOke_N