Alternative to IE.au3 - Need some guidance

[Dryden]

So this is the deal guys. I have a rather big script running in a company's lobby monitor that displays information gathered from 3 different websites, if exports the sites to text files every few seconds, filters what I want, compares it to the previous export and displays it in a gui.

...The thing is, as Internet Explorer is dying, the sites are no longer working properly with IE, meaning that I'm getting some random errors. To "fix" this I made another script that catches these errors, and relaunches the main script, but it's not pretty to randomly watch the monitor go black and after 30 seconds coming back up... I mean, its messy and it doesn't reflect how I generally work.

Having said this, I'm thinking about updating my script, or maybe do one from scratch using something else.

What should I use? Can someone point me in the right direction? Is there a good chrome/firefox/edge alternative to _IE functions?

Thx in advance

Edited July 26, 2021 by Dryden

[Musashi]

  On 7/26/2021 at 9:30 AM, Dryden said:

What should I use? Can someone point me in the right direction? Is there a good chrome/firefox/edge alternative to _IE functions?

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Take a look at @Danp2 's  webdriver-udf-w3c-compliant-version-04282021

Edited July 26, 2021 by Musashi
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[Dryden]

  On 7/26/2021 at 9:55 AM, Musashi said:

Take a look at @Danp2 's  webdriver-udf-w3c-compliant-version-04282021

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I'll do that. thnks

[water]

In addition I suggest to have a look at the WebDriver pages in the  wiki
WebDriver can become quite complex and the wiki tries to shed some light at the subject.

[Dryden]

  On 7/26/2021 at 12:38 PM, water said:

In addition I suggest to have a look at the WebDriver pages in the  wiki
WebDriver can become quite complex and the wiki tries to shed some light at the subject.

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Yeah, I'm swimming here... It's really different from _IE, I wish there were some examples of each function. But I'll get there in time... thx

[water]

The WebDriver UDF comes with a demo script.
Further examples can be found in this thread.

[noellarkin]

@Dryden I got MozRepl + FF.au3 working for quite a few existing browsers the other day, maybe you'll find this useful:

It works out-of-the-box for most of the browsers listed, for Pale Moon you'll need to make a small edit to the XPI file, I'll post the edit here if you're interested.