Guide to start automating Chrome?

[CaptainBeardsEyesBeard]

Hi 

 

I'm looking to automate chrome

I came across this though it's from 2013 so may be out of date? 

 

Either way it doesn't seem to recognise a chrome function I tried 

"C:\DACBAutomationTesting\Elite3eAutomation\Framework\Tests\Test1TestMainPage.au3" (9) : ==> Unknown function name.:
_ChromeStartup($url = $IEURL, $chrome_path = "C:Program FilesGoogleChromeApplicationchrome.exe")
^ ERROR

So I'm wondering if there is a better resource for setting up Chrome automation? 

[water]

The most up-to-date way to automate Chrome, Firefox and Edge is the Webdriver UDF.

[Exit]

But there is unfortunately the fact that Webdriver can not access/attach an existing session.
Or is this already fixed?
I use the scripts generated by UIASPY.

Edited October 29, 2019 by Exit

[junkew]

Read FAQ 31 its either webdriver or IUIAutomation thread in examples

They have both their own pros and cons

CEF could be another approach but then you start from ground zero: https://github.com/chromiumembedded/cef

 

[CaptainBeardsEyesBeard]

20 hours ago, water said:

The most up-to-date way to automate Chrome, Firefox and Edge is the Webdriver UDF.

Hey

 

I'm following this

 

Which tells you download the UDFs and then the chrome driver located here

https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/downloads

What do I do with the chrome.exe file? 

 

Thx

[Danp2]

1 hour ago, CaptainBeardsEyesBeard said:

What do I do with the chrome.exe file? 

It gets launched by the UDF, so the simplest thing to do is place it in the same directory as your script.