Is this possible with AutoIt?

[ManualIT]

I have a program that downloads newly uploaded videos from YouTube channels automatically, however this program has an issue for a while and the developer seems like doesn't want to look into it and fix, the issues is that it stops detecting new videos until i restart it.

Now i'm trying to create a script that restarts the program every 1 hour, but the idea is that i want it to check first if there's any video downloading before closing.

The program has an exit confirmation message window that only shows when there are downloads running, is it possible for AutoIt to check for that window before restarting it?

 

If it's possible, i would really appreciate it if you can help me on it.

[FrancescoDiMuro]

Hi @ManualIT, and welcome to the AutoIt Forum

I can tell you that it's possible.

You just have to check if that specific message box exists, and, if it doesn't, you can close the program.

Take a look at:

• Run(), to restart the program;
• WinExists(), function to see if that specific window exists;
• ProcessClose(), to close the application and restart if it's not downloading any video.

I don't know if you could have some information from this tool, but, in each case, if you are not able to find some information needed to use WinExists(), here you are a fantastic AutoIt Info Tool

Try them, and let us know

[ManualIT]

Thank you @FrancescoDiMuro

I was trying out AutoIt for a while now since i started the thread, i wrote some codes for testing and understanding it, however, there's just one thing i need to understand.

 

Now in the video downloader program, when i try to close it while it's downloading a video, the confirmation window that appears doesn't show any values in the Control tab in the (Frozen) AutoIt v3 Window Info when i highlight it, it only shows the value of the Handle in the Window tab

 

I'm in the step of trying to let it check if that confirmation window exists by using the Handle value if possible, not sure if it works that way or the values have to be from the Control tab

[FrancescoDiMuro]

2 hours ago, ManualIT said:

i wrote some codes for testing and understanding it

Post them
And with them, post the Results from AutoIt Window Info Tool about this other Message Box

[therks]

Also, can you share what program you are using to download the videos? Maybe someone here is also using it and can help you out.  (Myself, I actually use a program called 4k Downloader, but I haven't had any issues like you're describing so it's probably not the same program )

[Melba23]

Hi all,

Please read this announcement to understand why this thread is now locked. I realise that AutoIt would only be interacting with the third-party program, but that is close enough.

M23