Automate Website Visits With Powershell and Internet Explorer

For my research I found the need to automatically visit a webpage to run a setup and a teardown script. Turns out that it is fairly easy to do. The script is included below.

#cd to Internet Explorer

cd "C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer"

#point ie to the teardown script

./iexplore.exe 10.0.0.20/teardown.php

#sleep for one second - this is needed so IE has a chance to start before it is killed

sleep 1

#kill the internet explorer process

get-process iexplore | stop-process