I am trying to create a script to delete old MOSS 2007 personal sites. I have most of the script working, but where I am having trouble is once a box pops up, to have it click 'Ok'. The script locates the URL, and clicks on 'delete', but then a box pops to confirm deletion and the options are 'Ok' and 'cancel'. I want the script to click on 'ok'. I've done some research on the sendkey methods, but since I'm not well versed in PS, I'm unable to get it to work. Also, please don't suggest using the SP cmds. We have MOSS 2007 running on 2003 servers, so any SP cmds or trying to run the script from the server is a moot point.
Please take a look at my script below.
[void]
[System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("'System.Windows.Forms")
[void]
[System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("'Microsoft.VisualBasic")
$user = "username"
$mysiteURL = "http://SharePointSite/personal/$user/_layouts/deleteweb.aspx"
Invoke-WebRequest -UseDefaultCredentials -uri $mysiteURL | Select-Object statusdescription
#Creates an Internet Explorer object
$ie = New-Object -ComObject 'internetExplorer.Application'
$ie.Visible= $true
$ie.Navigate($mysiteURL)
while ($ie.Busy -eq $true){Start-Sleep 4;}
$ie.Document.getElementByID('ctl00_PlaceHolderMain_ctl08_RptControls_BtnDelete').click()
#give the focus to ie
[Microsoft.VisualBasic.Interaction]::AppActivate("Message from webpage")
#send keys
start-sleep 1
[System.Windows.Forms.SendKeys]::Sendwait("{ENTER}");
Any help would be appreciated. Thank you!
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Fairly new to PowerShell and exploring its capabilities. I have created the following script to automatically log in to LinkedIn, but it opens the web page and does nothing else, can some please assist? I wish to use the script to log in to a web status page and search for issues for alerting purposes, thank you.
PowerShell Script
$username = "Username"
$password = "Password"
$ie = New-Object -com InternetExplorer.Application
$ie.visible=$true
$ie.navigate("https://www.linkedin.com")
while($ie.ReadyState -ne 4) {start-sleep -m 100}
$usernameElement = $ie.document.getElementById("login-email").value= "$username"
$ie.document.getElementById("login-password").value = "$password"
$ie.document.getElementById("login-submit").submit()
start-sleep 20
OK, took me a while, but I figured out the issue. On LinkedIn specifically, the login-submit button has two notable properties: isDisabled and disabled. Those need to be both changed to $true before it can be clicked. Also, change the function called on it from .submit() to .click(). Also, a quick tip: After the script is done (I'm not sure if this is still true, because you seem to manually close it afterwards), $ie is kept under your script's management. To release it, call this command (after you manually close it, so it might be hard to get in there):
[System.Runtime.Interopservices.Marshal]::ReleaseComObject($ie) #>
Not really sure why, I just know it keeps it out of the way and is apparently equivalent to killing it from the task manager.
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 am trying to automate to extract data from a webpage after clicking on a button. But when I try to execute, the system freezes and it requires hard reboot. Please refer the code below.
$ie = New-Object -ComObject Internetexplorer.application
$ie.visible = $true
$ie.navigate("http://beta.speedtest.net")
while($ie.readystate -ne 4) {
sleep -Milliseconds 100
}
$link = $ie.document.getElementsByTagName("span") |Where-Object {$_.innertext -like "Begin test"}
$link.click()
Reference: Powershell website automating button click on loginenter code here
There is nothing in there which would cause a system freeze.
As you are starting an Internet Explorer instance, I guess IE is crashing your system and it is unreleated to your script or powershell.
You can verify by running the script on another machine.
Then I would try reinstalling IE on the crashing machine.
I have this poweshell script - which opens up the webpage - however the idea is that it would log into the page. It pulls up the page ok, but does not put anything in the login/password box. I got the getelementbyid'd from google chrome tools.
Do you have any idea on how to troubleshoot this script. Like in perl or bash I can put in echo statements. i can use set -x to check the output. I want to see it the script is entering in the login and password.
param
(
[parameter(Mandatory=$true)]
[ValidateNotNull()]
$ID
)
$username = "casper"
$password = "passworD"
$ie = New-Object -com InternetExplorer.Application
$ie.visible=$false
$ie.navigate("http://casperweb.stm.swissbank.com:8080/cds/marketAccessAcctLimits.jsp?Term=$ID")
while($ie.ReadyState -ne 4) {start-sleep -m 1}
$ie.Document.getElementById("userName").value= "$username"
$ie.Document.getElementById("password").value = "$password"
$ie.Document.getElementById("submitButton").Click()
start-sleep 20
$ie.Document.body | Out-File -FilePath c:\UBS\DEV\web.txt
Are you getting a specific error message? Without being able to access your page it's difficult to determine if the element id is correct. Your code and post prompted me to try something similar and I only saw the issue you described when I wasn't entering the correct element id of the fields I was trying to populate.
I found the below articles helpful for inspecting the element and getting the correct ID.
http://kb.oboxthemes.com/articles/how-to-get-css-styles-for-elements/
https://stackoverflow.com/a/9435732/5587481
I'm not an expert at this in any way so hopefully I understand the issue at hand correctly here :)
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 .....