Automating Firefox or Google Chrome

Question

I have seen information about using AutoHotkey with Internet Explorer for form filling through COM interface.

Is there any possibility to do this using Firefox or Chrome?

Bimestrial

Some things Can be done but not like COM and IE, so i'd say look in to javascript if you realy need to work with the other browsers – Hemia

Related. – Adder

Answer 1

The question is tagged AutoIt, so here's an AutoIt answer:

AutoIt does have a UDF for firefox automation that would do it. It's not a standard UDF and relies on a third party program.

Chrome has no interface for automation. In theory you could write a program that used webkit directly, and maybe even set the user agent to look like chrome. In practice I haven't seen it done, and it really is overkill when IE is a much easier choice for automation.

Rudolph

Answer 2

Try Puppeteer

Puppeteer is a Node.js library which provides a high-level API to control Chrome/Chromium over the DevTools Protocol. Puppeteer runs in headless mode by default, but can be configured to run in full ("headful") Chrome/Chromium.

What can it do?

Most things that you can do manually in the browser can be done using Puppeteer! Here are a few examples to get you started:

• Generate screenshots and PDFs of pages.

• Crawl a SPA (Single-Page Application) and generate pre-rendered content (i.e. "SSR" (Server-Side Rendering)).

• Automate form submission, UI testing, keyboard input, etc.

• Create an automated testing environment using the latest JavaScript and browser features.

• Capture a timeline trace of your site to help diagnose performance issues.

• Test Chrome Extensions.

Pseudohermaphrodite