"Facebook Quick Share" button on Google Chrome

[XanzyX]

Hey guys. I need some help. I have a client that wants to automate postings on Facebook via the "Quick Share" botton on Google Chrome. For the life of me I can't get AutoIT to recognise that button. 

 

I used au3ibfo to get the following information about that button. 

Class: Chrome_WidgetWin_1

Handle: 0x00000000000F071A

ive tried to use ControlClick but it does not seem to work. 

 

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/facebook-quick-share/gccankbfoldbmopamiokjlnnafnoiadd?hl=en

[Valzul]

Hi XanzyX,

 

I've been searching a way to solve your problem, and this is what I came up with ( it is more of a "on-the-fly" way to do it than a real program ) :

1) Set an Hotkey for this particular extension on Chrome :

Go to the extensions settings by doing this for example :

1. Click on the at the top left of Chrome window
2. ( I apologize in advance for this, but I'm french, my Chrome is french, so the translation might not be that good ) More tools > Extensions
3. On the bottom of the page, you should see something like "Keyboard hotkeys" link
4. Configure the Facebook Quick Share to use a particular combinaison of keys which you have defined ( Ctrl + P in my case )
5. Validate by clicking "O.K"

2) AutoIT Script

Now what you want AutoIT to do is :

1. To put the Google Chrome window in focus.
2. To send the defined hotkey for Facebook Quick Share
3. To execute a combinaison of keys that will allow to click on the "Like" button

Here is my try at it :

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#cs ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

 AutoIt Version: 3.3.14.2
 Author: Paul BIGEON

 Script Function:
    This particular script is written for XanzyX
    1. Put Google Chrome to front
    2. Execute a macro to use Facebook Quick Share : Like feature on the fly

#ce ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
; Sendkey delay set to 50 to be sure that keys are well sent.
Opt("SendKeyDelay",50)

; Hotkey attribution :
; We want this hotkey to be something different than those used by the system, as Ctrl + Z or Alt + F4
; for example.
; Here we use Ctrl + M, thus launching the FQS_LikeMacro() function.
HotKeySet("^m","FQS_LikeMacro")

Func FQS_LikeMacro()
Dim $Hndl
; 1 First, get the handle of Chrome Legacy Window and set focus ...
$Hndl = WinGetHandle("[CLASS:Chrome_WidgetWin_1]","Chrome Legacy Window")
WinActivate($Hndl,"Chrome Legacy Window")

; 2 Send the defined hotkey on Chrome
; Here I used Ctrl + P
Send("^p")

; Wait for the control to pop, or else the next sequence will play on the window itself
Sleep(1250)

; 3 Send the keys that allow the navigation into the FQS control to click on the "Like" button
Send("{TAB}{TAB}{TAB}")
Send("{ENTER}")
EndFunc

While 1
Sleep(100)
WEnd

Again, this is a very messy way of doing it, and it requires that the user don't do anything for 4 or 5 sec or so ...

Well, hope it can be of use as a start idea ...

Valzul.