User Defined Functions

This page is a listing of libraries of user defined functions (UDF). These libraries have been written to allow easy integration into your own scripts and are a very valuable resource for any programmer. This list is probably not complete, but constantly supplemented. If you do not find a solution here, ask a new question on the forum.

Automation

• Active Directory - Extensive library to control and manipulate the Windows active directory. Link to the documentation pages.
• GTK+ - GTK+ Framework | Widgets
• IUIAutomation MS framework - IUIAutomation MS framework to automate chrome, FF, IE, ....
• Java UDF - Creates an access bridge between your application and a Java application. Allowing you to automate some Java applications.
• SAP - SAP business management automation.
• SAPWizard - SAPWizard UDF.
• Service - Build your own service with AutoIt code.
• WiFi - Low level control over your wireless LAN.

Browsers

• Chrome - The same as above for Google Chrome. Automate the most common tasks in Chrome with the Chrome UDF.
• Firefox - A little less support for automation than IE, but still very good.
• HTMLDocumentEvents UDF - Track IE document events.
• IEJS UDF - IEJS - IE Javascript options, an IE.au3 personal extension.
• Internet Explorer - Everything about Internet explorer can be automated with the IE library supplied with a standard AutoIt install.
• NavInfo UDF - With this UDF you can check if a specified browser/software is installed and which version is being used.
• Opera - The same as above for Opera. Automate the most common tasks in Opera with the Opera UDF.

Microsoft Office Automation

• Microsoft Office Access - Automate Microsoft Access.
• Microsoft Office Excel - A UDF is included in AutoIt. Link to the documentation pages.
• Microsoft Office Excel Charts - Creating charts using Microsoft Excel.
• Microsoft Office Outlook - Automate Microsoft Outlook. Link to the documentation pages.
• PowerPoint Wrapper - Automate Microsoft PowerPoint.
• Microsoft Office Word - A UDF is included in AutoIt. Link to the documentation pages.

Hardware

• CommAPI - Serial and parallel communication (COM port, RS-232, LPT port) - without installing DLL's (using Windows API calls)
• Device Management - Device Management API
• DirectShow - DirectShow UDF.
• DirectSound UDF - DirectSound UDF
• Direct2D UDF - Direct2D UDF
• FritzBox - _FB_Tools - manage your FritzBox from Autoit
• I/O Port Functions UDF - This is a simple I/O (Input/Output) UDF for interacting with ports. (I/O Port Functions - x64 Parallel Port IO, Keyboard, etc + Restore PC Speaker Beep)
• Monitor Configuration - Monitor Configuration UDF.
• Mouse UDF - AutoIt powered mouse events
• MouseTrapEvent - MouseTrapEvent UDF
• NetInfo UDF - UDF for test internet download speed and upload speed.
• Network configuration UDF - Network configuration UDF
• Screen Resolution - Screen Resolution Changing UDF
• Serial Port/COM - Serial Port /COM Port UDF.
• SMARTDRIVE - SMART drive Analysis.
• SPI Hardware Interface - This script is made to comunicate with the MAX335 chip using the SPI protocol via the LPT(printer) port.
• Webcam UDF - Webcam UDF made by LIMITER.
• Webcam UDF - Webcam UDF made by ludocus.

Information gathering

• Computer information - A general purpose library to get various details about a Windows machine.
• WinPcap - Packet.dll UDF -
• WinPcap Autoit3 UDF - This UDF allows very simply from an Autoit script to access the main functionalities offered by the WinPcap driver.

Databases and web connections

• ADODB - ADODB Example.
• DBF - dBase database read and write with DLL.
• EzMySql - EzMySql UDF - Use MySql Databases with autoit.
• FireBird UDF - FireBird, Interbase dll udf.
• FireBird UDF - Additional link to FireBird UDF.
• MS SQL - MSSQL.au3.
• MS SQL - _SQL.au3. ADODB Connection.
• MySQL - MySQL relational database management system UDF.
• MySQL - MySQL UDFs (without ODBC).
• SQLite - SQLite is a library that implements a self-contained, embeddable, zero-configuration SQL database engine.
• XML DOM Wrapper - Supports CRUD operations on XML. Including XSL and XPath.

Internet protocol suite

• cURL - cURL UDF - a UDF for transferring data with URL syntax
• IMAP - IMAP.
• IMAP4 UDF - IMAP4 UDF.
• IRC - A lightweight library for communicating with IRC servers.
• IRC IRC UDF - Updated Version of Chips' IRC UDF.
• JSON - RFC4627 compliant JSON encode/decode
• JSON - JSMN - A Non-Strict JSON UDF
• JSON - Bridge to Native Windows JSON plus OO extension for AutoIt
• POP3 - POP3 library for retrieving email messages. Not compatible with Gmail because it uses SSL.
• _POP3_Ex.au3 UDF POP3 UDF According to the 1939 RFC, modified version with Quoted Printable decoder.
• POP3 SSL - A POP3 library that's compatible with Gmail. It uses an external executable that must be supplied with your script.
• Prowl - Prowl UDF.
• SFTP - UDF to support SFTP protocol using PSFTP.
• SMTP - Smtp Mailer That Supports Html And Attachments.
• SNMP UDF - SNMP_UDF for SNMPv1 and SNMPv2c
• SNMP - MIB protocol (Reading toner status from SNMP device with WMI).
• SSH UDF - This UDF allows to use the SSH protocol very easily in your code.
• UPnP Protocol - UPnP : Read and Control your devices in side out.
• WinHTTP - Enables scripts to access the HTTP protocol for creating GET and POST requests and submitting them with conforming standards, cookies not supported.
• WinInet - Enables scripts to access standard Internet protocols, such as FTP, Gopher and HTTP. Also supports creating GET and POST requests and submitting them with conforming standards, cookies supported.

Data compression

• 7z, zip, gzip, bzip2, tar - More extensive library than the one above. Uses a external DLL that must be provided with the script.
• LZMA - LZMA (Native Windows) by trancexx
• LZMA Compression UDF - LZMA Compression UDF
• MessagePack UDF - MessagePack is an efficient binary serialization format. It lets you exchange data among multiple languages like JSON. But it's faster and smaller.
• Package UDF - Package UDF
• pZip - PureZIP_L library UDF
• UnRAR - UnRAR.au3.
• Zip plugin - Zip plugin
• ZIP - ZIP.au3 UDF in pure AutoIt.
• zip - Create ZIP files and unpack ZIP files.
• ZIP - ZIP STRUCTS UDF (from scratch)
• zLib - zLib (Deflate/Inflate/GZIP) UDF
• XZip - another UDF for "XStandard XZIP Component".
• XZip - UDF for "XStandard XZIP Component" by mLipok.

Encryption and hash

• AES Rijndael - Very fast AES UDF. Support ECB/CBC/CFB/OFB block cipher mode.
• MD5,SHA1,CRC32,RC4,BASE64,XXTEA - Several encryption and hash functions.
• TrueCrypt - TrueCrypt UDFs.

Media

• FreeImage library - Various operations on images, such as rotate, resize, flip.
• HtmlHelp UDF - HtmlHelp UDF
• OCR - Real OCR in AU3 - MODI with MS Office 2003.
• OCR - Tesseract (Screen OCR) UDF.
• Printer controller - Print text in any font, size and colour at any position on the page, draw lines, curves, elipses, pies in any colour, and print images.
• Printing - Printing from AutoIt.
• RTF_Printer - RTF_Printer.au3 - Printing RichEdit in the background.
• Simple DirectMedia Layer UDF - Adds support for joysticks, CDs, 2D graphics, timers. See SDL website for more information.

Sound

• BASS Function Library - Sound and Music via wrappers for Bass, BassEnc, Bass FX, BassSFX, BassAsio and BassCd DLLs
• MIDI - MIDI UDF
• SAPIListBox UDF - SAPIListBox (Speech Recognition) UDF
• TTS - Text-to-Speech UDF

Graphics and image

• Bitmap Library - Bitmap Library.
• IrrLicht - A 3D graphics engine suitable for creating games.
• au3Irrlicht2 - Another UDF bringing Irrlicht and au3 together. Historically some kind of a follower of the UDF above, technically with a complete different approach.
• ImageGetInfo - This is an UDF for reading info from JPEG, TIFF, BMP, PNG and GIF - size, color depth, resolution
• OpenGL UDF - OpenGL without external libraries etc. For JPEG files UDF also retreive various Exif information.
• OpenGL UDFs (2.0) - new set of UDFs for OpenGL + AutoIt

Players

• VLC UDF - VLC (Media Player) UDF
• VLC Media Player - VLC Media Player
• WMP UDF - Windows Media Player UDF

GUI Additions

• XSkin - A large library that allows skinning of your GUI and to apply custom skins.
• Uskin - A library that allows a user to skin their application GUI using the Windows .MSstyles files.
• Modern tray menu - Allows the creation of modern, fancy GUI and tray menus with icons and colors.
• SetOnEvent - Provides an easy way for an event to call functions with parameters.
• GUIFrame - Divide a GUI into adjustable frames.
• Easy Scrollbars - Easily create scrollable sections in your GUI
• GUICtrlOnChangeRegister - Call a function when an edits content is changed.
• ContextHelp.au3 - Management of context help (original)
• GUIExtender - Expand and contract sections of your GUI. (original)
• ExtMsgBox - A very customisable replacement for MsgBox
• Toast - Small message GUIs which pop out of the Systray
• GUI Panel UDF - Manage child GUIs as panel ctrls
• Pie chart - Pie chart
• 3D Pie chart - 3D Pie chart

Controls

• Graph control UDF - Easily create and show bar chart and line charts.
• GUICtrlCreateFinder - Allows you to create a window finder control like the one seen in AutoIt Window Info.
• GUIPager - Create and control native pager controls.
• Hotkey input control - Hotkeys Input Control UDF Library (Non-native)
• GUIHotkey - UDF for using native hotkey controls.
• Marquees - Make tickertape info bars
• Colorpicker - Create a button for the user to select a color.
• Syslink - Provides a convenient way to embed hypertext links in a window
• Progressbar with GDIplus - You even can use full textured images
• Table UDF - Table UDF
• Table UDF - GUI/Tray Menu with icons and colors
• Table UDF - GUI/Tray Menu with icons and colors (modified by LarsJ with extra examples by LarsJ and AZJIO)
• Ribbon - UDF for Windows Ribbon framework.
• GUITreeViewEx - Check/clear parent and child checkboxes in a TreeView

Maths

• Primes UDF - Many functions dealing with prime number generation and calculations.
• Big number UDF - Make calculations with extremely large numbers that AutoIt normally is not able to support.
• Number base conversion - From, to and between positive bases less than 63 (decimals supported)
• Decimal To fraction - Converts any decimal number to a fraction. Example: 1.2 to 6/5
• Trigonometry math functions - _ATan2(), _Cosh(), _Frexp(), _Hypot(), _Ldexp(), _Logb(), _Sinh(), _Tanh()
• Polynomials - Functions for using polynomials.
• NumToWord - Convert numerals to a human readable string.
• Root function - Working out real roots of numbers.
• Advanced rounding - Support for different measures of accuracy and 8 ways to resolve tie breaks.
• Roman Numerals - integer to roman numerals made by Mat.
• Roman Numerals - Roman Numerals made by czardas.
• Roman Numerals - Roman Numerals made by AZJIO.

• StringAPL UDF - inline APL interpreter.

Misc

• Hotkey.au3 - Management of Hotkeys UDF, with several advantages over HotkeySet().
• Animated tray icons - Make animated tray icons easily.
• NoFocusLines - Remove the dotted focus lines from buttons, sliders, radios and checkboxes which spoil the look of your GUI
• StringSize - Automatically size controls to fit the text you want to put in them
• Spell Checker - Spell Checker UDF - Hunspell
• TVExplorer - TVExplorer UDF
• BinaryCall - BinaryCall UDF - Write Subroutines In C, Call In AutoIt
• LFN - LFN UDF - overcome MAX_PATH limit of 256 chars
• Clipboard History/Sotrage - UDF to save and restore the entire clipboard contents
• Resources UDF - Resources UDF
• ResourcesEx UDF - ResourcesEx UDF (up to date with the current AutoIt language syntax v3.3.12.0)
• NotifyIcon UDF - NotifyIcon UDF (formerly TrayIconEx) - Create, delete and manage self notify icons
• Binary UDF - Binary UDF
• _DLLStructDisplay - Show Struct in ListView
• DDEML UDF - With DDEML UDF one can use an AutoIt script as a DDE client or server.
• _FileGetMimeType UDF - _FileGetMimeType UDF
• FindMimeFromData - FindMimeFromData using urlmon.dll
• PixelGetColor UDF - Get or Read Pixel from Memory UDF
• File locking with cooperative semaphores - Simple file locking without a server
• SQLite Array Functions - SQLite Array Functions - a faster method for unique arrays and sorting methods
• Synology filestation UDF - UDF for users of Synology NAS server.
• Atom Table UDF - Basically, a bunch of strings can be stored locally (at program level) or globally (at O/S level) with unique numerical identifiers. This UDF lets you add, find, delete, and query these atoms.

PDF

• PDFCreator - Automation of PDFCreator allows you to create and manipulate PDF files.
• Debenu Quick PDF Library - A collection of functions for Debenu Quick PDF Library.
• MPDF - Create PDF from your application.
• Debenu PDF Viewer SDK - UDF - A collection of functions to display PDF files in your applications using Debenu PDF Viewer SDK.
• FoxIt Reader UDF - PDF Reader in AU3.
• _StringToPDF UDF - Write a string to a PDF file and specify font size, type etc.

Windows

• Firewall - Windows Firewall UDF.
• UAC - User Account Control (UAC) UDF.
• ACL - Set ACL on windows Objects.
• Startup - Create Startup entries in the Startup Folder or Registry
• Local account UDF - Local account UDF
• Windows Services UDF - Windows Services UDF
• ITaskBarList UDF - ITaskBarList UDF
• FileSystemMonitor UDF - FileSystemMonitor UDF
• Magnifier Functions UDF - Magnifier Functions - Windows Vista+ Magnifier Manipulation
• WRMF UDF - WRMF - Windows Registry Monitor Call Function
• Registry UDFs - Windows Registry UDFs
• Registry - RegWriteAllUsers / RegDeleteAllUsers
• System restore UDF - System restore UDF
• Task Sheduler - Task Scheduler UDF.
• Taskplaner/Taskscheduler COM UDF - an UDF for using the Windows Taskplaner / Task Scheduler
• Windows Events - Create your own Windows events.
• Magnifier Functions UDF - This UDF exposes most of the useful Magnifier API functions available since Windows Vista.
• WIMGAPI UDF - A UDF for manipulating Windows Image Files (.wim) without ImageX.exe

Security

• VirusTotal - VirusTotal API 2.0 UDF.

Social Media and other Website API

• Twitter - Twitter UDF.
• iTunes - iTunes UDF.
• iTunes - another iTunes UDF.
• Yahoo Weather - YWeather UDF - Yahoo Weather API.
• Google Maps - Google Maps UDF.
• Google API - JSON queries for Google API.
• PasteBin - PasteBin (powered by PasteBin).
• PasteBin - Pastebin UDF.
• eBay UDF - eBay UDF.
• Gmail - Remote Gmail (UDF)
• No-IP UDF - With this UDF you can simply update your no-ip hostname(s) and retrive the ip address of an no-ip address.
• Youtube Uploader - AYTU - AutoIt Youtube Uploader
• Google Functions - Google Functions
• Dropbox authenticator - Dropbox authenticator
• TVmaze.com API UDF - TVmaze.com API UDF (TV-Series)
• Teamspeak 3 UDF - Teamspeak 3 UDF
• TeamViewer API - UDF - UDF for TeamViewer API - a modest beginning
• Easypost UDF - Print USPS Postage Labels

Android

• Android UDF - Android UDF.