So I have found little to no info on this topic, basically I'm just trying to use selenium to open up a chrome profile so that the settings are saved to be used in each run of the script. Please help as I am new to coding and have never used PowerShell.
So far the only semi successful attempt with no errors is as follows but still does not work..
$WebDriverPath = Resolve-Path "C:\selenium\WebDriver.dll"
Unblock-File $WebDriverPath
Add-Type -Path $WebDriverPath
$ChromeDriver = New-Object OpenQA.Selenium.Chrome.ChromeOptions
$CD = $ChromeDriver.AddArgument("--user-data-dir=C:\Users\jshaw\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Profile 2")
$CD = New-Object OpenQA.Selenium.Chrome.ChromeDriver
$CD.Navigate().GoToURL('https://www.google.com')
So i figured out how to do this! This loads your default profile; however, there is an issue when you do this. If you have Chrome open already it throws an error. when Chrome is closed all good! Now I know why people use customized profiles.
$ChromeOptions.AddArgument(
"--user-data-dir=C:\Users\TweakAir\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data"
)
$ChromeDriver = New-Object OpenQA.Selenium.Chrome.ChromeDriver($ChromeOptions)
$ChromeDriver.Navigate().GoToURL($YourURL)```
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I am able to successfully execute a Powershell script with Selenium 4.x although i need to run chrome under a user profile (which will persist). The objective is to save the cookies. For that I believe I will need to add options as defined in Saving chrome cookies Selenium. I do see something similar here although I need it for Powershell.
So how do I implement options that can be used by this command. (This command is primarily for selenium 4.x).
$browser = Start-SeDriver -Browser Chrome
This is all I could get, but I am unsure how to add it all up:
$ChromeOptions.addArguments("c:/users/PsUser");
With Module https://github.com/adamdriscoll/selenium-powershell v4:
$browser = Start-SeDriver -Browser Chrome -Arguments "--user-data-dir=C:\Users\$($env:username)\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data"
Without Module:
When you instantiate the ChromeDriver object you can pass a ChromeOptions argument.
So basically:
# Your working directory
$workingPath = 'C:\selenium'
# Add the working directory to the environment path.
# This is required for the ChromeDriver to work.
if (($env:Path -split ';') -notcontains $workingPath) {
$env:Path += ";$workingPath"
}
# OPTION 1: Import Selenium to PowerShell using the Add-Type cmdlet.
Add-Type -Path "$($workingPath)\WebDriver.dll"
# Create a new ChromeDriver Object instance.
$ChromeOptions = New-Object OpenQA.Selenium.Chrome.ChromeOptions
$ChromeOptions.AddArgument("--user-data-dir=C:\Users\$($env:username)\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data")
$chrome = New-Object OpenQA.Selenium.Chrome.ChromeDriver($ChromeOptions)
# Launch a browser and go to URL
$ChromeDriver.Navigate().GoToURL('https://google.com')
# Cleanup
$ChromeDriver.Close()
$ChromeDriver.Quit()
I've been working with Selenium for a few weeks now. This script was working fine until the website owner recently updated the code, and now my logging into the website will no longer work.
Chrome Drivers and Selenium have been updated, it's an element that I can't seem to get to become intractable.
I've tried adding:
$seleniumDriver.Manage().Timeouts().ImplicitlyWait((New-TimeSpan -Seconds 5))
That didn't work.
I've also tried changing the code from
$ChromeDriver.FindElementXPath("//*[#id='email']").Click
to
$ChromeDriver.FindElement("email_username"").Click
That also didn't work.
Also, adding a Start-Sleep -seconds 15 also didn't help.
There must be another way to get this username and password box clickable. Would appreciate any help. This is what I have so far.
$workingPath = 'C:\selenium'
if (($env:Path -split ';') -notcontains $workingPath) {
$env:Path += ";$workingPath"
}
Add-Type -Path "$($workingPath)\WebDriver.dll"
Add-Type -Path "$($workingPath)\WebDriver.Support.dll"
$ChromeDriver = New-Object OpenQA.Selenium.Chrome.ChromeDriver
# Launch a browser and go to URL
$ChromeDriver.Navigate().GoToURL("https://fund.traderscentral.com/overview")
# Enter the username in the Username box
$ChromeDriver.FindElementXPath("//*[#id='email']").Click
$ChromeDriver.FindElementByXPath('//*[#id="email"]').SendKeys('b0rken#gmail.com')
# Enter the password in the Password box
$ChromeDriver.FindElementByXPath('//input[#name="password"]').SendKeys('12345678')
# Click on the Login button
$ChromeDriver.FindElementByXPath("//button[#type='submit']").Click();
# Cleanup
$ChromeDriver.Close()
$ChromeDriver.Quit()
i am afraid that some bugs in selenium doesnt bring the solution at your problem:
it seems that the input field was not seen inside a div...
i have found a solution in c# by using Actions, i am not expert in powershell but i suppose Actions exist in powershell, C# and powershell could use same library:
this is my solution in C#: i just send keys with Actions, the first tab goes to the email field and i dont know why but i have to write all sendkeys in one line, hope that could help you:
Actions actions = new Actions(driver);
actions.SendKeys(Keys.Tab).SendKeys("b0rken#gmail.com").SendKeys(Keys.Tab).SendKeys("12345678").Perform();
Actions belongs to OpenQA.Selenium.Interactions
in powershell (not tested)
workingPath = 'C:\selenium'
if (($env:Path -split ';') -notcontains $workingPath) {
$env:Path += ";$workingPath"
}
Add-Type -Path "$($workingPath)\WebDriver.dll"
Add-Type -Path "$($workingPath)\WebDriver.Support.dll"
$ChromeDriver = New-Object OpenQA.Selenium.Chrome.ChromeDriver
# Launch a browser and go to URL
$ChromeDriver.Navigate().GoToURL("https://fund.traderscentral.com/overview")
#modif
# here 10sec adjust your wait time
[OpenQA.Selenium.Support.UI.WebDriverWait]$wait = New-Object OpenQA.Selenium.Support.UI.WebDriverWait ($ChromeDriver,[System.TimeSpan]::FromSeconds(10))
$wait.PollingInterval = 100
[void]$wait.Until([OpenQA.Selenium.Support.UI.ExpectedConditions]::ElementExists([OpenQA.Selenium.By]::Id('email')))
[OpenQA.Selenium.Interactions.Actions]$actions = New-Object OpenQA.Selenium.Interactions.Actions ($ChromeDriver)
$actions.SendKeys([OpenQA.Selenium.Keys]::Tab).SendKeys("b0rken#gmail.com").SendKeys([OpenQA.Selenium.Keys]::Tab).SendKeys("12345678").Perform()
i have seen some adding build(), dunno the difference but you could test:
$actions.SendKeys([OpenQA.Selenium.Keys]::Tab).SendKeys("b0rken#gmail.com").SendKeys([OpenQA.Selenium.Keys]::Tab).SendKeys("12345678").Build().Perform()
I'm trying to download an file from a particular website by clicking on the file icon. Website login works but i'm hoping to use keystroke "TAB" to navigate to the excel file and finally key "Enter" to download. Ran the code but resulted in the Powershell text of "FALSE". Any advice is appreciated! Thanks.
Reference: Table screenshot
$url = "https://abcdefg.com"
$username="test#gmail.com"
$password="TestPW"
$ie = New-Object -com internetexplorer.application;
$ie.visible = $true;
$ie.navigate($url);
while ($ie.Busy -eq $true)
{
Start-Sleep -Milliseconds 1000;
}
$ie.Document.getElementById("txtEmail").value = $username
$ie.Document.getElementByID("txtPassword").value=$password
$ie.Document.getElementById("Login").Click();
Start-Sleep -Milliseconds 10000
$obj = new-object -com WScript.Shell
$obj.AppActivate('Internet Explorer')
$obj.SendKeys('{TAB}')
$obj.SendKeys('{TAB}')
$obj.SendKeys('{TAB}')
$obj.SendKeys('{TAB}')
$obj.SendKeys('{Enter}')
Why are you doing that vs using web scraping to find the link you are trying to hit, and use the link URL directly?
Your post is really a duplicate of this Q&A.
Use PowerShell to automate website login and file download
SendKeys could work, but they are very hinky and on different systems may not function as you'd expect. There are better tools dedicated to do this, AutoIT, Selenium, WASP
--- That WASP tool still works, but has not been updated in a long while.
Using PowerShell 2.0 With Selenium to Automate Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Chrome
Internet Explorer
Next you want to obtain the Internet Explorer driver from this site. I
recommend version 2.41 because “as of 15 April 2014, IE 6 is no longer
supported”. This must reside in your current PATH so in your script
you may want to modify your PATH to ensure the executable
(IEDriverServer.exe) can be found there. If you’re wondering whether
to get the 32-bit or the 64-bit version, start with the 32-bit even if
you’ve got a 64-bit Windows.
At this point you’ll want to quickly instantiate Internet Explorer and
navigate somewhere. Great. Let’s do it.
# Load the Selenium .Net library
Add-Type -Path "C:\selenium\WebDriver.dll" # put your DLL on a local hard drive!
# Set the PATH to ensure IEDriverServer.exe can found
$env:PATH += ";N:\selenium"
# Instantiate Internet Explorer
$ie_object = New-Object "OpenQA.Selenium.IE.InternetExplorerDriver"
# Great! Now we have an Internet Explorer window appear. We can navigate to a new URL:
$ie_object.Navigate().GoToURL( "http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages" )
# This worked! The call won’t return until the page download is complete.
# Next let’s click on a link from the link text:
$link = $ie_object.FindElementByLinkText( "Spanish" )
$link.Click()
# display current URL
$ie_object.Url
Selenium Tutorial: All You Need To Know About Selenium WebDriver
Update for the OP
As for...
However the file does not have a redirected URL
Then you need to look deeper at the site, to find the anchor to the file that you can force click on.
Example:
# Scrape a web page with PowerShell
$w = Invoke-WebRequest -Uri 'https://www.reddit.com/r/PowerShell'
$w | Get-Member
$w.AllElements
$w.AllElements.Count
$w.Links.Count
$w.Links
$w.Forms
$w.Forms.Fields
$w.Forms[0]
$w.Forms[0].Fields
$w.RawContent
$w.ParsedHtml
once you find tag names, or the like, you need to parse that to get stuff out of it.
$w.AllElements | Where-Object -Property 'TagName' -EQ 'P' | Select-Object -Property 'InnerText'
For tables you have to dig more.
Extracting Tables from PowerShell’s Invoke-WebRequest
I am trying to use PowerShell to login to a website. In the example below I am trying to login to live.com.
I am able to update the username field but the webpage runs some sort of input validation that does not accept my value. If I manually go in and edit the username field, like hitting space and then backspace, the input is then valid.
I found some documentation about changing the focus or using fireevent, but neither seems to work.
While sendkeys would resolve my issue, I have had numerous problems with sendkeys before and would really like to avoid going down that path.
$Site = 'https://login.live.com'
$UserName = 'FakeUserName#outlook.com'
$ie = New-Object -ComObject 'internetExplorer.Application'
$ie.Visible= $true
$ie.Navigate($Site)
while ($IE.busy)
{
Start-Sleep -Milliseconds 100
}
$Inputs = $IE.document.getElementsByTagName("input")
foreach ($Input in $Inputs)
{
if ($Input.type -eq "email")
{
$UserIDField = $Input
}
if ($Input.type -eq "submit")
{
$LoginButton = $Input
}
}
$UserIDField.focus()
$UserIDField.value = $UserName
$UserIDField.FireEvent('onchange')
$LoginButton.focus()
$LoginButton.click()
#Ranadip Dutta is certainly true, you should not, do that this way, but if you want to automate web browser Selenium is a good tool, here it tooks five minutes to automate Chrome on your web site. You can chooe an IE driver,Mozilla or Opera. for that have a look to Selenium.
# Selenium directory is the place where I expand Selenium Client & WebDriver Language Bindings for C#
$seleniumDir = 'D:\Developpements\Pgdvlp_PowerShell\selenium-dotnet-3.0.0'
# Selenium Webdriver
Add-Type -Path "$seleniumDir\net40\WebDriver.dll"
Add-Type -Path "$seleniumDir\net40\WebDriver.Support.dll"
Add-Type -Path "$seleniumDir\net40\ThoughtWorks.Selenium.Core.dll"
Add-Type -Path "$seleniumDir\net40\Selenium.WebDriverBackedSelenium.dll"
# With Chrome
# I Download Chrome driver here : https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/index.html?path=2.25/
# It stands in "$seleniumDir" drive
$chrome = New-Object OpenQA.Selenium.Chrome.ChromeDriver "$seleniumDir"
#$chrome.Navigate().GoToUrl("https://fr.hightail.com/loginSpaces?redirect_url=https%3A%2F%2Fspaces.hightail.com%2Foauth%2Fhightail");
$chrome.Navigate().GoToUrl("https://login.live.com");
$Browser = $chrome
$email = $Browser.FindElements([OpenQA.Selenium.By]::Name('loginfmt'))
$email[0].SendKeys("adress#hotmail.com")
$button = $Browser.FindElements([OpenQA.Selenium.By]::Id('idSIButton9'))
$button.Click()
Start-Sleep 2
$passwd = $Browser.FindElements([OpenQA.Selenium.By]::Name('passwd'))
$passwd[0].SendKeys("toto")
$button = $Browser.FindElements([OpenQA.Selenium.By]::Id('idSIButton9'))
$button.Click()
If your website is checking for automated login then how can you expect it to be automated in this way. Sendkeys actually send like user input which is similar to what user does and thereby sorts your problem in that case.
I would like you to see if there is any API available for the web service to get logged in.
Other than that, I do not see anything which can help you. This concern is not about powershell or any scripting language. It is pretty much generic for your website.
You may also want to consider passing stored credentials more securely instead of putting your creds in full view plain text within your script(s).
TechNet - PowerShell Tip - Storing and Using Password Credentials
I'm trying to do some simple automation with Powershell, pulling link URLs from one of our company's local intranet pages, and then doing some work with those URLs. Eventually I'll use the script to open each link and click a button on the page. I'm using Internet Explorer 9 in Windows 7 x64.
Here's an example of a simple working powershell script that displays all the links on a page:
$ie = new-object -com "InternetExplorer.Application"
$ie.Visible = $true
$ie.Navigate( "http://www.reddit.com" )
While ($ie.Busy) {
Sleep 1
}
$links = $ie.Document.getElementsByTagName("a")
$links | foreach {
write-host $_.href
}
This script works fine until I replace the URL with a local intranet site. It follows the normal URL scheme ( http://internaldomain.com/etc ), but it's recognized as an intranet site. Once I'm trying to scrape a page in the intranet zone, the $ie.Document value suddenly becomes NULL and the script fails.
I'm guessing it's related to some obscure setting for that zone... I'm not sure. I found some suggestions online such as adding it to your trusted sites, but that has not worked. This is my first time using Powershell for web automation, so any help or insight would be appreciated.
Maybe the solution is here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ieinternals/archive/2011/08/03/internet-explorer-automation-protected-mode-lcie-default-integrity-level-medium.aspx
It explained the different levels of tabs, in ie. You have to use the "medium tab" to navigate in local zone.
Basically, the best way to keep your ie settings and use your script is to create a registry key, as explained in the link above.
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\InternetExplorer.ApplicationMedium]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\InternetExplorer.ApplicationMedium\CLSID]
#="{D5E8041D-920F-45e9-B8FB-B1DEB82C6E5E}"
And in your script, use this new com object:
$ie = new-object -Com InternetExplorer.ApplicationMedium
...
Due to policy restrictions on my computer, I was not able to access the registry to create the key mentioned in another answer. However, I did find a way to do it indirectly using PowerShell in case this is helpful to anyone else:
$type = [Type]::GetTypeFromCLSID('D5E8041D-920F-45e9-B8FB-B1DEB82C6E5E')
$ie = [System.Activator]::CreateInstance($Type)
$ie.Visible = $true
$URL = "http://my.intranet.com"
$ie.Navigate($URL)
Write-Host "`$ie.Busy:" $ie.Busy
Write-Host "`$ie.ReadyState:" $ie.ReadyState
while($ie.Busy -or ($ie.ReadyState -ne 4) ) {
Start-Sleep -s 1
}
Write-Host "IE is ready"
Use
$ie.Document.documentElement.getElementsByClassName("underline")
and enjoy .....