What we are doing is legal but not how they intended the system to be used. There is no direct download link. Automation anywhere runs as me and I enter my credentials in it. If I login using RDP and click run on the software it will most of the time complete. If I schedule the task and close the RDP session - it fails -. No AD - stand alone Server machine in data center in Chicago. Using local admin accounts. Ive had 4 presales screen shares with their support and the task keeps failing on different spots.
The author and support are both off shore and as is expected, the communication and listening skills are almost non existent. The call goes something like this.
So far it hasnt. One would think the technology that is use is old called screen scraping. I would think there is some opensource out there to provide this. Doing a quick google search turned up Unipath.
Their enterprise edition looks like it will do everything and a bit more. Their video demo looks interesting. And the price of the top of the line is less than Automation everywhere. It appears you can get a free trial license to see if it works for your environment. Screen scraping in something like Python might work. These are all potentially viable. However, I'm wondering if the "click a button" is invoking a javascript function before posting to the web server.
If so that would have to be worked around. I use the System. Webclient object to connect to a specific website, with an System. Networkcredentials object to authentify, then I download 3 html files and stores them to a specific folder. Never had an issue. It is free and it should do what you need. I used this in my college days to automate registering for classes. Worked great until they flagged my account for overuse of the scheduling website. Either way, my point is that AutoHotKey works great in windows and would do exactly what you wanted.
Im trying Unipath now - which didnt turn up in my searches so thanks for that. Its not running well on Server but Icve contacted support to see what the say. Love Autohotkey. I never tried it on a web page, but I'd think HTML would make it easier to get at named widgets than when accessing programs widgets.
Incidentally, doesn't scheduled tasks have an option to let you log in as a particular user when running a task? Just because you need to "log in and click some links" doesn't mean that wget or curl can't help.
Consider that Web communications is just a series of transactions that are separate from each other, so, for example, you might need to send a request with login credentials, store the session cookie in a text file, then re-present it when going directly to the download request. Depending on the nature of the location providing the download itself, you may even be able to bypass the login portion, however if that's the case, it would definitely be a security risk. Login to a website with my credentials.
Download and save those Excel files on my computer. Please reference this : embed-apps-dev function-param. Please reference Pstork1 's post. It would contain 3 functions:. Extract website data using Selenium.
You can get a Nuget package that supports Selenium. You also need a webdriver. I would use Chrome. You'll need to run Chrome in silent mode. Create Excel workbook using EPPlus. You don't need Excel installed. If you want to do this on your desktop not cloud based and have experience with Excel VBA there is a package you can use to do it called SeleniumBasic.
The release is dated but Chrome still works if you update webdriver. I use this a lot to automate web related tasks and it works great. As an example, I like to read so I created an Excel addin that automatically searches library daily for upcoming books so I can be first in line for new releases.
Selenium will also work with Power Automate UI for a web browser on your desktop. Probably easier than writing C code for an Azure function.
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Viewed 19k times. The file downloaded in the next step is empty. Improve this question. Note that I'm logging in to an external website. This isn't an Active Directory login or remote server login using AD credentials. I'd love to do it using Invoke-WebRequest if I can get the credentials working.
While it is a standard windows credential prompt, the same method is used frequently for things not related to AD or even windows logins. There's a few ways to create a cred object, you can even substitute it with the username and it will just prompt for a password, recommend googling pscredential for options. Looking into the IE path, doesn't look possible. When you open a PDF it actually just runs a plugin to show it so yeah the body will be blank or null.
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