I am currently doing the automation with power shell and I am stuck in the following problem ,
I have automated internet explorer with scripting in power shell,
But now i need to automate Firefox using this , i have searched and not able to track down ,
Is there any way or is it possible to automate FF with power shell ....suggestions are required.
Have a look at http://watin.org/ You can work with the watin.dll wich supports multiple browsers..
I started to use it because i needed a File Upload which comobject InternetExplorer.Application can't do...
Little snippet to get you started:
$watin = [Reflection.Assembly]::LoadFrom( "c:\WatiN.Core.dll" )
$ie = new-object WatiN.Core.IE("http://xyz.com") #Here you could load also Firefox with watin
$ie.TextField([watin.core.Find]::ByName("HF_Text1")).TypeText("Text1")
$ie.FileUpload([watin.core.Find]::ByName("HF_file")).Set("C:\text.txt")
$ie.Button([watin.core.Find]::ByName("HF_Button")).Click()
$ie.WaitForComplete()
$ie.quit()
Note that you have to run Powershell in STA Mode when using WatiN (powershell.exe -sta)
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I am setting a script to pin internet explorer to task-bar for all users using Power Shell. the code i have run only is successfully for pinning notepad but i want it to work for internet explorer. Any one who can help me on this?
$sa = new-object -com shell.application
$pn = $sa.namespace($env:windir).parsename('iexplorer.exe')
$pn.invokeverb('taskbarpin')
I have tried putting parsename('notepad.exe') and it ran,But i want to put internet explorer like this parsename('iexplorer.exe').
When i run the code the console says powershell: You cannot call a method on a null-valued expression.
if you check what $pn.items() returns, you can see there is no internet explorer.
You need to use the installation path of the internet explorer as an namespace.
Try it like that:
$sa.namespace("C:\Program Files\internet explorer").parsename('iexplore.exe')
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Automating a process where i download a report from a link and save it in a particular folder. I can use sendkeys to automate this but under headless condition it fails. Is there any way in powershell to automate this.
So you need to download a file via Powershell. You'll need to know a direct link to it, then you can automate it via this script:
$url = "http://your-site/report.xlsx"
$output = "$PSScriptRoot\report.xlsx"
$wc = New-Object System.Net.WebClient
$wc.DownloadFile($url, $output)
There are other options how to download the file via Powershell, but this is the best tradeoff for you.
I have been trying to get this to work via a game control panel TCAdmin.
$ModPg1 = Invoke-WebRequest "http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=731604991"
$ModVer1 = ($ModPg1.ParsedHtml.getElementsByTagName('div') | Where{ $_.className -eq 'detailsStatRight' } ).innerText | Select -Last 1
If I run this cmdlet via a program like TCAdmin (or task scheduler), I get the following error....
Invoke-WebRequest : The response content cannot be parsed because the Internet Explorer engine is not available, or Internet Explorer's first-launch configuration is not complete. Specify the UseBasicParsing parameter and try again.
Explorer is installed, and set up. The script works just fine if I run it manually.
My guess is there is a way to get TCAdmin to run the scripts the same way I would as a windows User.
Cant find a way nearly as simple to scrape the info 'm looking for.
As for this...
get TCAdmin to run the scripts the same way I would as a windows User.
For any app to run as a user, that users profile must be used on the host where the code is to be run. You cannot natively run PoSH on a host as another user context. This is not a PoSH issue, it is a Windows User Principal security boundary. There are tools that let you do this. For example SysInternal PSExec and AutoIT. Yet as stated that error is pretty specific. The user profile for Internet Explorer has not been created and that only happens when you use IE at least once.
So, as Adam points, out, use the setting the error message states to use or use your code to start IE at least once.
$SomeUrl = 'https://stackoverflow.com'
$ie = New-Object -com internetexplorer.application
$ie.visible = $true
$ie.navigate($SomeUrl)
while ($ie.Busy -eq $true) { Start-Sleep -Seconds 1 } # Wait for IE to settle.
Again, if trying to run this in the context of another user, the two above tools will get you there, but you still have to fire up IE to have a profile for it.
I have installed the PowerShellPack on a Server 2008 R2 machine, but am unable to use the PSImageTools module. All image operations yield the error New-Object : Cannot load COM type Wia.ImageFile. I have tried installing the same package on my Windows 7 laptop, and there it works.
I figure this must be because of missing Dll:s on the server, but even copying the wia*.dll files to System32 from the laptop (there are no corresponding files already in place) helps. It is not possible to register the dlls (regsvr32 wiaaut.dll, for instance), that is replied to with "The file failed to load".
So, has anybody successfully used Wia on Windows Server 2008? We're going to run a scheduled powershell script to update the outlook image of our users, so it needs to be able to run on the server.
I get the same error on Windows Server 2008 x64. Tried both x64 and x86 version of PowerShell v2.
As an alternative you might be able to use System.Drawing.Image. Depends on what your script needs to do. Perhaps post some example code.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.drawing.image.aspx
Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Drawing
$image = [System.Drawing.Image]::FromFile("C:\pic.bmp")
EDIT: Here's how you can change an image's dimensions:
$pixWidth = 90
$pixHeight = 90
$image2 = New-Object System.Drawing.Bitmap -ArgumentList $image, $pixWidth, $pixHeight
$image2.Save('C:\new_pic.bmp', [System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat]::Bmp)
Found this article after quite a bit of searching:
http://kb.winzip.com/kb/entry/207/
Basically, you need to enable and set to Automatic the "Windows Image Acquisition" service in Windows 2003, or in Windows 2008, install the Desktop Experience feature first, then enable the "Windows Image Acquisition" service and set to Automatic.
I want to write a script that loads a url (eg. http://google.com) automatically. But I don't want to install any 3rd party libraries or programs to the server. what's the easiest way to do this?
I just my options are batch script, vb script or powershell right?
FYI from PowerShell, if you want to retrieve the contents of the URL you can do this;
$page = (new-object net.webclient).DownloadString("http://www.bing.com")
$page # writes the contents to the console
If you just want to open it in a browser:
Start-Process http://www.bing.com
Or using the start alias
start http://www.bing.com
Start-Process is new in PowerShell 2.0.
The beauty of Powershell is it has so many ways to do something.
This is my Powershell 2.0 example code - consisting of a Pause function to allow the site to open. It uses Internet Explorer as the browser. In this case - IE is a better browser than the others because it integrates with Powershell through a verbose API.
$url = "http://www.google.com/"
$ie = new-object -com "InternetExplorer.Application"
$ie.Navigate($url)
There are many different functions attached to this object. I recommend loading up the Powershell command line, typing in the above code, and checking what other functions this object has. Type $ie. and pressing TAB iterates through all the methods of this library.
The more I learn of Powershell, the more exciting it becomes. There is nothing it cannot do on Windows.
you can use vbscript
url="http://somewhere.com"
Set objHTTP = CreateObject( "WinHttp.WinHttpRequest.5.1" )
objHTTP.Open "GET", url, False
objHTTP.Send
wscript.Echo objHTTP.ResponseText
objFile.Close