{"id":309,"date":"2010-03-31T20:45:49","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T01:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevine.info\/?p=309"},"modified":"2021-07-01T12:26:58","modified_gmt":"2021-07-01T17:26:58","slug":"automate-website-visits-with-powershell-and-internet-explorer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevine.info\/index.php\/2010\/03\/automate-website-visits-with-powershell-and-internet-explorer\/","title":{"rendered":"Automate Website Visits With Powershell and Internet Explorer"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.<\/p>\n

#cd to Internet Explorer<\/pre>\n
cd \"C:\\Program Files\\Internet Explorer\"<\/pre>\n
#point ie to the teardown script<\/pre>\n
.\/iexplore.exe 10.0.0.20\/teardown.php<\/pre>\n
#sleep for one second - this is needed so IE has a chance to start before it is killed<\/pre>\n
sleep 1<\/pre>\n
#kill the internet explorer process<\/pre>\n
get-process iexplore | stop-process<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
For my research I found the need to automatically visit a webpage to run a setup and a teardown script. 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