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

Browsers

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

Microsoft Office

• Microsoft Office Access (by randallc) - Automate Microsoft Access.
• Microsoft Office Excel (by water et al.) - This UDF is included in AutoIt. Link to the documentation pages.
• Microsoft Office Excel Charts (by water, GreenCan) - Creating charts using Microsoft Excel.
• Microsoft Office Outlook (by water ) - Automate Microsoft Outlook. Link to the documentation pages.
• Microsoft Office PowerPoint (by Toady) - Automate Microsoft PowerPoint.
• Microsoft Office Word (by water et al.) - This UDF is included in AutoIt. Link to the documentation pages.

OpenOffice

• OOo/LibO Calc (by GMK) - OpenOfficeCalc UDF.

Databases and web connections

• ADODB (by spudw2k) - ADODB Example.
• DBF (by funkey) - dBase database read and write with DLL.
• EzMySql (by oriz) - EzMySql - Use MySql Databases with autoit.
• FireBird (by eltorro) - FireBird, Interbase dll udf.
• MS SQL (by TheLuBu) - MSSQL.au3.
• MS SQL (by ChrisL) - _SQL.au3. ADODB Connection.
• MySQL (by cdkid) - MySQL relational database management system UDF.
• MySQL (by ProgAndy) - MySQL UDFs (without ODBC).
• MySQL (by James) - MySQL ODBC Connector.
• SQLite (by ptrex) - SQLite is a library that implements a self-contained, embeddable, zero-configuration SQL database engine.
• XML DOM Wrapper (by eltorro) - Supports CRUD operations on XML. Including XSL and XPath.

Data compression

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

Encryption and hash

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

GUI Additions

• 3D Pie chart (by ... ) - 3D Pie chart.
• ContextHelp.au3 (by ... ) - Management of context help (original).
• Easy Scrollbars (by Melba23) - Easily create scrollable sections in your GUI.
• ExtMsgBox (by Melba23) - A very customisable replacement for MsgBox.
• GUICtrlOnChangeRegister (by ... ) - Call a function when an edits content is changed.
• GUIExtender (by Melba23) - Expand and contract sections of your GUI (original).
• GUIFrame (by Melba23 & Kip) - Divide a GUI into adjustable frames.
• GUI Panel (by ... ) - Manage child GUIs as panel ctrls.
• Modern tray menu (by ... ) - Allows the creation of modern, fancy GUI and tray menus with icons and colors.
• Pie chart (by ... ) - Pie chart.
• SetOnEvent (by ... ) - Provides an easy way for an event to call functions with parameters.
• Uskin (by ... ) - A library that allows a user to skin their application GUI using the Windows .MSstyles files.
• Toast (by Melba23) - Small message GUIs which pop out of the Systray.
• XSkin (by ... ) - A large library that allows skinning of your GUI and to apply custom skins.

Controls

• Calendar (by ... ) - Calendar UDF.
• Colorpicker (by ... ) - Create a button for the user to select a color.
• Graph control (by ... ) - Easily create and show bar chart and line charts.
• GUICtrlCreateFinder (by ... ) - Allows you to create a window finder control like the one seen in AutoIt Window Info.
• GUITreeViewEx (by Melba23) - Check/clear parent and child checkboxes in a TreeView.
• GUIHotkey (by ... ) - UDF for using native hotkey controls.
• GUIPager (by ... ) - Create and control native pager controls.
• GUI/Tray Menu (by Holger, LarsJ, AZJIO) - GUI/Tray Menu with icons and colors.
• Hotkey input control (by ... ) - Hotkeys Input Control UDF Library (Non-native).
• Marquees (by Melba23) - Make tickertape info bars.
• Progressbar with GDIplus (by ... ) - You even can use full textured images.
• Ribbon (by ... ) - UDF for Windows Ribbon framework.
• Syslink (by ... ) - Provides a convenient way to embed hypertext links in a window.
• Table (by ... ) - Table UDF.

Hardware

• CommAPI (by therealhanuta) - Serial and parallel communication (COM port, RS-232, LPT port) - without installing DLL's (using Windows API calls).
• Device Management (by weaponx) - Device Management API.
• DirectShow (by monoceres) - DirectShow UDF.
• DirectSound (by eukalyptus) - DirectSound UDF.
• Direct2D (by eukalyptus) - Direct2D UDF.
• FritzBox (by Allow2010) - _FB_Tools - manage your FritzBox from Autoit.
• I/O Port Functions (by Ascend4nt) - Input/Output UDF for interacting with ports (x64 Parallel Port, Keyboard etc.).
• Monitor Configuration (by jaberwacky) - Monitor Configuration UDF.
• Mouse (by AlmarM) - AutoIt powered mouse events.
• MouseTrapEvent (by ozmike) - MouseTrapEvent UDF.
• NetInfo (by Nessie) - UDF for test internet download speed and upload speed.
• Network configuration (by jguinch) - Network configuration UDF.
• Serial Port/COM (by martin) - Serial Port /COM Port UDF.
• SMARTDRIVE (by ptrex) - SMART drive Analysis.
• SPI Hardware Interface (by Blinky) - Communicate with the MAX335 chip using the SPI protocol via the LPT (printer) port.
• Webcam (by LIMITER) - Webcam UDF.
• Webcam (by ludocus) - Webcam UDF.

Information gathering

• Computer information (by JSThePatriot) - A general purpose library to get various details about a Windows machine.
• WinPcap (by JRSmile) - Wrapper for the windows packet capture library WinPcap.
• WinPcap (by Nicolas Ricquemaque) - A library to access the main functionalities offered by the WinPcap driver.

Internet protocol suite

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

Maths

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

Media

• FreeImage library (by ... ) - Various operations on images, such as rotate, resize, flip.
• HtmlHelp (by ... ) - HtmlHelp UDF.
• OCR (by ... ) - Real OCR in AU3 - MODI with MS Office 2003.
• OCR (by ... ) - Tesseract (Screen OCR) UDF.
• Printer controller (by ... ) - 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 (by ... ) - Printing from AutoIt.
• RTF_Printer (by ... ) - RTF_Printer.au3 - Printing RichEdit in the background.
• Simple DirectMedia Layer (by ... ) - Adds support for joysticks, CDs, 2D graphics, timers. See SDL website for more information.

Graphics and image

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

Players

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

Sound

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

PDF

• Acrobat Reader - ActiveX Viewer (by mLipok) - UDF for use with Acrobat Reader ActiveX COM Object "AcroPDF.PDF.1"
• Debenu PDF Viewer SDK (by mLipok) - A collection of functions to display PDF files in your applications using Debenu PDF Viewer SDK.
• Debenu Quick PDF Library (by mLipok) - A collection of functions for Debenu Quick PDF Library.
• FoxIt Reader (by ptrex) - PDF Reader in AU3.
• MPDF (by taietel) - Create PDF from your application.
• PDFCreator (by ptrex) - Automation of PDFCreator allows you to create and manipulate PDF files.
• PDFCreator (by mLipok) - UDF for PDFCreator v1.x.x with working EVENTs Handler.
• _StringToPDF (by Tam0r) - Write a string to a PDF file and specify font size, type etc.

Security

• VirusTotal (by Danyfirex) - VirusTotal API 2.0 UDF.

Social Media and other Website API

• CrowdinAPI (by mLipok) - UDF using the crowdin.net website API for some functions (create projects, add and update files, download translations or integrate localization).
• Dropbox authenticator (by Gimerly) - Dropbox authenticator.
• Easypost (by dcat127) - Print USPS Postage Labels.
• eBay (by seangriffin) - eBay UDF.
• Gmail (by PhoenixXL) - Remote Gmail (UDF).
• Google Functions (by Beege) - Google Functions.
• Google Maps (by seangriffin) - Google Maps UDF.
• iTunes (by torels) - iTunes UDF.
• iTunes (by Beege) - another iTunes UDF.
• No-IP (by Nessie) - With this UDF you can simply update your no-ip hostname(s) and retrive the ip address of an no-ip address.
• PasteBin (by mrflibblehat) - Pastebin UDF.
• Skype (by FireFox) - Skype4COM provides an ActiveX interface to the Skype API.
• Teamspeak 3 (by chipDE) - Teamspeak 3 UDF.
• TeamViewer API (by mLipok) - UDF for TeamViewer API - a modest beginning.
• TVmaze.com API (by BBs19) - TVmaze.com API UDF (TV-Series).
• Twitter (by seangriffin) - Twitter UDF.
• Yahoo Weather (by Nessie) - YWeather UDF - Yahoo Weather API.
• Youtube Uploader (by BrettF) - AYTU - AutoIt Youtube Uploader.

Windows

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

Misc

• Android (by Moriba) - Android UDF.
• Animated tray icons (by ... ) - Make animated tray icons easily.
• Atom Table (by ... ) - Store strings locally (at program level) or globally (at OS level) with unique numerical identifiers. This UDF lets you add, find, delete, and query these atoms.
• Barcode generators (by willichan ) - Creates a Code128A/B/C or Creates a Code39 or Code39Extended optimized barcode from supplied data.
• Binary (by ... ) - Binary UDF.
• BinaryCall (by ... ) - BinaryCall UDF - Write Subroutines In C, Call In AutoIt.
• Clipboard History (by wraithdu) - Save and restore the entire clipboard contents. Inspired by AHK's ClipboardAll.
• CmdLine (by Jefrey ) - Collection of functions to parse command line arguments.
• Copy (by ... ) - Copy or move files and directories without suspending your script. Retrieve the current state (copied bytes, error code etc.) while copying.
• DDEML (by ... ) - With DDEML UDF one can use an AutoIt script as a DDE client or server.
• _DLLStructDisplay (by ... ) - Show Struct in ListView.
• FASM (by ... ) - The Embedded Flat Assembler (FASM) UDF.
• _FileGetMimeType (by ... ) - _FileGetMimeType UDF.
• File locking with cooperative semaphores (by ... ) - Simple file locking without a server.
• FindMimeFromData (by ... ) - FindMimeFromData using urlmon.dll.
• Hotkey.au3 (by ... ) - Management of Hotkeys UDF, with several advantages over HotkeySet().
• Inline Assembly (by ... ) -
• LFN (by ... ) - LFN UDF - overcome MAX_PATH limit of 256 chars.
• MemoryDll (by ... ) - Embed DLLs in script and call functions from memory.
• NoFocusLines (by Melba23) - Remove the dotted focus lines from buttons, sliders, radios and checkboxes which spoil the look of your GUI.
• NotifyIcon (by ... ) - NotifyIcon UDF (formerly TrayIconEx) - Create, delete and manage self notify icons.
• PixelGetColor (by ... ) - Get or Read Pixel from Memory UDF.
• RDC (by ... ) - ReadDirectoryChanges Wrapper.
• Resources (by ... ) - Resources UDF.
• ResourcesEx (by ... ) - ResourcesEx UDF (up to date with the current AutoIt language syntax v3.3.12.0).
• Spell Checker (by ... ) - Spell Checker UDF - Hunspell.
• SQLite Array Functions (by ... ) - SQLite Array Functions - a faster method for unique arrays and sorting methods.
• StringSize (by Melba23) - Automatically size controls to fit the text you want to put in them.
• Synology filestation (by ... ) - UDF for users of Synology NAS server.
• TVExplorer (by ... ) - TVExplorer UDF.