Automate firefox

[Stilgar]

Added the description of some global variables to the documentation:

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[shEiD]

Thank You, awesome job. Me was waiting for firefox udf for ages now

Sadly, I can't get it to work. Tried running some examples from documentation page:

Example 1 (firefox closed):

#Include <FF.au3>
_FFStart()
If _FFIsConnected() Then
; add a new tab with an URL
    _FFTabAdd("http://ff-au3-example.thorsten-willert.de/")
    sleep(3000)
; closes FireFox
    _FFQuit()
EndIf

Firefox launches with previous sessions tabs + one new blank tab. Then adds new blank tab, but without close button! (imho, relevant addons- TabMixPlus and TreeStyleTab) and doesn't navigate to provided url. Finally it doesn't close. Script exit.

Console output:

__FFStartProcess: ""C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -new-window "about:blank"  -repl 4242 
_FFConnect: OS: WIN_XP WIN32_NT 2600 Service Pack 3
_FFConnect: AutoIt: 3.3.0.0
_FFConnect: FF.au3: 0.5.3.5b-0
_FFConnect: IP: 127.0.0.1
_FFConnect: Port:   4242
_FFConnect: Delay:  2ms
_FFConnect: Socket:     1516
__FFSend: try{window.content.frames["top"].document.browserDOMWindow}catch(e){'_FFCmd_Err';};
__FFRecv: 
__FFSend: try{navigator.userAgent}catch(e){'_FFCmd_Err';};
__FFRecv: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10
_FFConnect: Browser:    Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10
_FFSendJavascripts: Sending functions to FireFox ........... done
_FFLoadWait: . loaded in 22ms
__FFSend: try{FFau3 != null?1:0}catch(e){'_FFCmd_Err';};
__FFRecv: 1
__FFSend: try{gBrowser.selectedTab = gBrowser.addTab('http://ff-au3-example.thorsten-willert.de/')}catch(e){'_FFCmd_Err';};
__FFRecv: _FFCmd_Err
_FFCmd ==> Error return value: _FFCmd_Err
__FFQuit: Closing FireFox ...

Example 2 (firefox already open):

#Include <FF.au3>
; add a new tab with an URL
_FFTabAdd("http://ff-au3-example.thorsten-willert.de/")
Sleep(10000)
; closes FireFox
_FFQuit()

Nothing happens at all.

Console output:

__FFSend ==> Socket Error
_FFCmd ==> Error return value

FF version: 3.0.10 - maybe thats the problem?

Please help, as I'm really looking forward to remaking a bunch of my scripts and switching from IE udf

[Stilgar]

@shEiD:

Hello,

thank you!

Example 1:

It could be a problem with your tab-AddOns, because of this error:

try{gBrowser.selectedTab = gBrowser.addTab('http://ff-au3-example.thorsten-willert.de/')}catch(e){'_FFCmd_Err';};
__FFRecv: _FFCmd_Err
_FFCmd ==> Error return value: _FFCmd_Err

have you tried without this AddOns, too?

Example 2:

At first you must made a connection to FF/MozRepl.

You can see this at this at this error:

__FFSend ==> Socket Error
_FFCmd ==> Error return value

You can check this if you using the function _FFIsConnected() e.g.

#Include <FF.au3>
_FFConnect() ; or _FFStart(Default, Default, 0) - connects to an open FF

If _FFIsConnected() Then
 ; add a new tab with an URL
 _FFTabAdd("http://ff-au3-example.thorsten-willert.de/")
 Sleep(10000)
 ; closes FireFox
 _FFQuit()
EndIf

[shEiD]

Thanks for such a fast answer. You were right - TabMixPlus was the trouble. It seems everything works, after disabling it.

Sadly, tab mix plus is one of the more usefull addons :/ Any idea what could be the problem between these two? Hopefully someone will figure it out. Maybe it could be used with some options disabled/unset.

Anyway, thanks again, Stilgar.

/me is off to play with FF.au3

Edited May 19, 2009 by shEiD

[iLoveAU3]

how to replace background color on youtube?

this code does not work and make mozRepl return some error

$socket = _FFConnect()
$sHTML = _FFReadHTML()
$sHTML = StringReplace($sHTML, 'id="BaseDiv"', 'bgcolor="#000000" id="BaseDiv"')
If Not @error Then _FFWriteHTML($sHTML)

__FFSend: try{content.document.body.innerHTML='





<div bgcolor="#000000" id="BaseDiv" class="date-20090519 video-info">
    

    
    <div id="masthead">
        <div id="masthead-inner">
                <a href="/" onmousedown="urchinTracker('/Events/Header_3/YouTubeLogo');" id="logo"><button onclick="window.location.href='/'; return false;" class="master-sprite" title=""></button></a>
            <div id="region-and-language-picker-links-wrapper">
                <button id="slogan" class="master-sprite" title=""></button>
                        <span class="util-item first with-flag"><a href="#" class="region-picker-link hLink" onclick="loadFlagImgs('region-picker-box'); return false;" onmousedown="urchinTracker('/Events/Header/UtilLinks/I18n/text');">Poland</a></span>
    <span class="util-item"><a href="#" class="language-picker-link hLink" onclick="loadFlagImgs('language-picker-box'); return false;" onmousedown="urchinTracker('/Events/Header/UtilLinks/I18n/text');">English</a></span>

            </div>
            <div class="user-info">
                    


    <div id="util-links" class="normal-utility-links">

        <span class="util-item first"><b><a class="hLink" href="/signup?next=/watch}catch(e){'_FFCmd_Err';};
__FFSend:;
__FFRecv:

line with the code where an error occurs should go like this

<span class="util-item first"><b><a class="hLink" href="/signup?next=/watch%3Fv%3DRyVcic7cZgA%26feature%3DPlayList%26p%3D120F15989C14A1B7%26index%3D4%26playnext%3D5%26playnext_from%3DPL" onmousedown="urchinTracker('/Events/Header/UtilLinks/SignUp');">

regards

[Stilgar]

Thanks for such a fast answer. You were right - TabMixPlus was the trouble. It seems everything works, after disabling it.

Sadly, tab mix plus is one of the more usefull addons :/ Any idea what could be the problem between these two? Hopefully someone will figure it out. Maybe it could be used with some options disabled/unset.

Anyway, thanks again, Stilgar.

/me is off to play with FF.au3

It could be that TabMixPlus override the standard tab-functions. I'll check this.

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how to replace background color on youtube?

this code does not work and make mozRepl return some error

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$sHTML = _FFReadHTML()
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Regards

Stilgar

[iLoveAU3]

oh right! this is great. love you man

[Stilgar]

@shEiD:

I've tried now different AddOns which "manipulates" the tabs.

And the only which not work is TabMixPlus, because it seems to override something in the browser-functions. So if I wouldn't made the FF.au3 TabMixPlus compatible, only if this AddOn made some buggy hacks in the browser.

AddOns like "Tab Kit" do they same without compatibily problems.

[LOULOU]

@shEiD:

I've tried now different AddOns which "manipulates" the tabs.

And the only which not work is TabMixPlus, because it seems to override something in the browser-functions. So if I wouldn't made the FF.au3 TabMixPlus compatible, only if this AddOn made some buggy hacks in the browser.

AddOns like "Tab Kit" do they same without compatibily problems.

Has someone finding a method to bypass the problem of INPUT TYPE=FILE which doesn't allow automation ?

[LOULOU]

@shEiD:

I've tried now different AddOns which "manipulates" the tabs.

And the only which not work is TabMixPlus, because it seems to override something in the browser-functions. So if I wouldn't made the FF.au3 TabMixPlus compatible, only if this AddOn made some buggy hacks in the browser.

AddOns like "Tab Kit" do they same without compatibily problems.

Has someone finding a method to bypass the problem of INPUT TYPE=FILE which doesn't allow automation ?

[Stilgar]

Has someone finding a method to bypass the problem of INPUT TYPE=FILE which doesn't allow automation ?

_FFXpath("//input[@id='IdOfTheInput']","",9) 
_FFObj("xpath","value","c:\\test.txt")

[Bert]

The automate firefox thread is now located here:

http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=95595

I'm having this thread closed so as to keep the subject in one thread.