I am trying to write a VBScript that opens Internet Explorer, navigates to a YouTube video, and then press the next button (the next button is show in picture).
Here you have my code:
Option Explicit
Dim msg, sapi, ie, shell, firstVideo
Set ie = CreateObject("InternetExplorer.Application")
ie.Navigate "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VisBywjQuZU"
ie.Visible = 4
waitForLoad
ie.Document.GetElementsByClassName("ytp-play-button ytp-button").Item(0).Click
waitForLoad
ie.Document.GetElementsByClassName("ytp-next-button ytp-button").Item(0).Click
'waits for ie to be completely loaded
Sub waitForLoad
Do while ie.Busy
WScript.Sleep 200
Loop
End sub
As you will notice by playing the script, I am able to interact with the play/pause button without problems. But when it comes to the next button, vbs is just doing nothing.
How can I make this work?
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I wrote a vbscript program to automatically join Google Meet sessions, with the code that is required to enter the meet generated based on the date and time. Whenever I run the program, it opens in the background of the computer in infinite windows(repeatedly opening a new instance of Google Meet every second). The keystrokes that are supposed to be directed toward Internet Explorer are instead sent to whatever is active. The line of code that is supposed to make it the active window are not working: WshShell.AppActivate "Internet Explorer" I believe that this below section is what is causing problems. Any help is greatly appreciated!
option explicit
dim webbrowser, WshShell
set webbrowser = createobject("internetexplorer.application")
set WshShell = createobject("Wscript.Shell")
webbrowser.statusbar = false
webbrowser.menubar = false
webbrowser.toolbar = false
webbrowser.visible = true
webbrowser.navigate("https://meet.google.com/")
wscript.sleep(3000)
WshShell.AppActivate Internet Explorer
WshShell.sendkeys "{enter}"
I don't know why did you use sendkeys ?
You should write something like that :
Option explicit
dim webbrowser
set webbrowser = createobject("internetexplorer.application")
webbrowser.statusbar = false
webbrowser.menubar = false
webbrowser.toolbar = false
webbrowser.visible = true
webbrowser.navigate("https://meet.google.com/")
Do while webbrowser.readystate <> 4
wscript.sleep 200
Loop
I have created a code that will open Internet Explorer, navigate to a site, prompt for credentials and a date range, and then save the data (theoretically) to a text file.
Everything works except for saving the data. When I click their export button, it pops up a new window that is untitled (so I can't focus on the window by name) and when I try to save it to a .txt file it saves the 1st webpage that is still focused, not the popup window.
How do I shift focus to the popup window/save the popup to a text file?
Unfortunately I can't provide much code, but here is the code I am using to save to a text file:
TEXT = objIE.Document.Body.InnerText
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set ts = fso.OpenTextFile("Banorte.txt", 2, True)
ts.Write TEXT
ts.Close
Also, I don't have an option to download any software to help me with this. I am also not opposed to using a different language if need by, or call a separate script.
Thank you for taking a look!
------EDIT------
Here is some additional code, the site is banorte.com, this is the code that runs after I log in.
And by popup, I mean it opens up a new window in internet explorer, but it is not like a tab, that has a name and could be added to the parent window. It is a standalone.
objIE.Document.getElementsByName("btnEntrar").Item(0).Click
While objIE.Busy
WScript.Sleep 100
Wend
objIE.Document.getElementsByName("ctl00$Contentplaceholder1$btnConsultar").Item(0).Click
WScript.Sleep 5000
objIE.document.parentWindow.execScript "javascript:__doPostBack('ctl00$Contentplaceholder1$grdCuentasCheques$ctl02$ctl00','')"
BEGDATE= InputBox("Please enter the beginning date DD/MM/YYYY:","Please provide additional info.")
objIE.Document.getElementById("ctl00_Contentplaceholder1_ucPeriodoFechas_WucFechaInicial_txtFecha").value = BEGDATE
ENDDATE= InputBox("Please enter the ending date DD/MM/YYYY:","Please provide additional info.")
objIE.Document.getElementById("ctl00_Contentplaceholder1_ucPeriodoFechas_WucFechaFinal_txtFecha").value = ENDDATE
objIE.Document.getElementsByName("ctl00$Contentplaceholder1$btnConsultar").Item(0).Click
WScript.Sleep 2000
Issue is after this command:
objIE.Document.getElementsByName("ctl00$Contentplaceholder1$btnExportarSaldos").Item(0).Click
Do Until objIE.readystate = 4
WScript.Sleep 10
loop
TEXT = objIE.Document.Body.InnerText
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set ts = fso.OpenTextFile("Banorte.txt", 2, True)
ts.Write TEXT
ts.Close
objIE.Navigate "https://nbem.banorte.com/NBXI/Corporativa/Cerrar.aspx"
ObjIE.quit
In the past I've used the script below to detect if an active window with the title "Remote Desktop" is or isn't active. If it isn't active the script will auto launch or make it active again.
Question: Is there a way to detect if a window is active and auto close it? I'm setting up a kiosk in chrome kiosk mode on a Windows 7 machine for our office. The main page launches a selected Google form in a pop-up window. The form confirmation page has the title "Thank You!" in the title bar. Is there a way for the script to auto detect this window and close it? This would be nice because the user would see that their response was submitted (for a second or two) but if they did not close the window it would not still be open when the next user goes to use the kiosk.
Another option might be if there is a way to use a Google script on the form to program the submit button to close the window. I'm not sure if that's possible.
Option Explicit
'On Error Resume Next
Dim objShell
Set objShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Do
If (objShell.AppActivate("Window Title Here") = False) Then
objShell.Run "mstsc.exe " & chr(34) & "c:\scripts\Remote Desktop.rdp" & chr(34)
WScript.Sleep 5000
Else
WScript.Sleep 3000
End If
Loop
If the window I need closed is active and then the following script is ran the window will close. It's almost like I need to piece the top and bottom code here together to achieve what I need, but I'm not sure how.
Dim oShell
Set oShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
If oShell.AppActivate("Untitled - Notepad") Then
WScript.Sleep 500
oShell.SendKeys "%{F4}"
End If
I'm trying to find a script that will run on startup and wait for a window with a specific title to open and then close it once it is detected. It would be even better if I could control how long the window remains open once detected, but if I could just get it to close that would suffice.
I think I've found a good solution. I found this post and modified the answer. Does anyone see any issues with this?
' Will loop forever checking for the message every half a second
' When it finds the message it will close the window
Set wshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Do
ret = wshShell.AppActivate("Untitled - Notepad")
If ret = True Then
wshShell.SendKeys "%{F4}" 'ALT F4
End If
WScript.Sleep 500
Loop
Set wshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Do
ret = wshShell.AppActivate("Untitled - Notepad")
If ret = True Then
wshShell.SendKeys "%{F4}" 'ALT F4
End If
WScript.Sleep 500
Loop
The only trouble i see is the Alt+F4 will sequentially close windows until it will want to shut down windows itself. kinda makes me nervous even though this script will only detect the name you give it.
I tried the script and it works fine but what about using the escape key for certain windows?
The other thing i do not like is this is always running and taking resources. I slowed down the loop so it will at least be paused in the background most of the time..
How to mock the background window to active state using VB script?
There is some keycode command I need to send to some background window(I known the related VB function), but it will only work when the window is active. If the window is really active, I cant do anything in the foreground.
So is it there anyway to mock the window to active state?
Yes there is, see this example
Dim oShell
Set oShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
'bring the window to front
'title must be exactly what you see in the titlebar of the window
oShell.AppActivate "title of your window"
WScript.Sleep 500 'give the window the time to activate, time is in miliseconds
oShell.SendKeys "{ENTER}" 'you can send keystrokes to this window
Set oShell = nothing
if you want to minimize that window you can send keystrokes to do that, but this is language dependent so first try them manually. The following sends the keystrokes Alt (%) space and N from miNimize. Try in your window to push the Alt-Space keys to get the menu that controls this
oShell.SendKeys "(% )N"
I tried making a script that should perform the following functions:
runs in background
focus moves to next tab if user press any key
run on windows platform.
I used the following code but its not working :(
Please correct me if I had made a error in code.
Set wshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Dim a
Do
a = WScript.StdIn.Read(1)
wshShell.SendKeys "{TAB}"
Loop