User Defined Functions

This page is a listing of libraries of user defined functions (UDF). These libraries have been written to allow easy integration into your own scripts and are a very valuable resource for any programmer. This list is probably not complete, but constantly supplemented. If you do not find a solution here, ask a new question on the forum.

Automation

• Active Directory (by water) - Extensive library to control and manipulate the Windows active directory. Link to the documentation pages.
• GTK+ (by prazetto) - GTK+ Framework | Widgets.
• IUIAutomation MS framework (by junkew) - IUIAutomation MS framework to automate chrome, FF, IE etc.
• Java (by seangriffin) - Creates an access bridge between your application and a Java application. Allowing you to automate some Java applications.
• SAP (by seangriffin) - SAP business management automation.
• SAPWizard (by ozmike) - SAPWizard UDF.
• Service (by arcker) - Build your own service with AutoIt code.
• WiFi (by MattyD) - Low level control over your wireless LAN.

Browsers

• Chrome (by seangriffin) - The same as above for Google Chrome. Automate the most common tasks in Chrome with the Chrome UDF.
• Firefox (by Stilgar) - A little less support for automation than IE, but still very good.
• HTMLDocumentEvents (by SmOke_N) - Track IE document events.
• IEJS (by SmOke_N) - IEJS - IE Javascript options, an IE.au3 personal extension.
• Internet Explorer (by DaleHohm et al.) - Everything about Internet explorer can be automated with the IE library supplied with a standard AutoIt install.
• NavInfo (by Nessie) - With this UDF you can check if a specified browser/software is installed and which version is being used.
• Opera (by MrCreatoR,) - The same as above for Opera. Automate the most common tasks in Opera with the Opera UDF.

Microsoft Office

• Microsoft Office Access (by randallc) - Automate Microsoft Access.
• Microsoft Office Excel (by water et al.) - This UDF is included in AutoIt. Link to the documentation pages.
• Microsoft Office Excel Charts (by water, GreenCan) - Creating charts using Microsoft Excel.
• Microsoft Office Outlook (by water ) - Automate Microsoft Outlook. Link to the documentation pages.
• Microsoft Office PowerPoint (by Toady) - Automate Microsoft PowerPoint.
• Microsoft Office Word (by water et al.) - This UDF is included in AutoIt. Link to the documentation pages.

OpenOffice

• OOo/LibO Calc (by GMK) - OpenOfficeCalc UDF.

Databases and web connections

• ADODB (by spudw2k) - ADODB Example.
• DBF (by funkey) - dBase database read and write with DLL.
• EzMySql (by ... ) - EzMySql - Use MySql Databases with autoit.
• FireBird (by ... ) - FireBird, Interbase dll udf.
• FireBird (by ... ) - Additional link to FireBird UDF.
• MS SQL (by ... ) - MSSQL.au3.
• MS SQL (by ... ) - _SQL.au3. ADODB Connection.
• MySQL (by ... ) - MySQL relational database management system UDF.
• MySQL (by ... ) - MySQL UDFs (without ODBC).
• MySQL (by James) - MySQL ODBC Connector
• SQLite (by ... ) - SQLite is a library that implements a self-contained, embeddable, zero-configuration SQL database engine.
• XML DOM Wrapper (by ... ) - Supports CRUD operations on XML. Including XSL and XPath.

Data compression

• 7z, zip, gzip, bzip2, tar (by ... ) - More extensive library than the one above. Uses a external DLL that must be provided with the script.
• LZMA (by trancexx ) - LZMA (Native Windows).
• LZMA Compression (by ... ) - LZMA Compression UDF.
• MessagePack (by ... ) - MessagePack is an efficient binary serialization format. It lets you exchange data among multiple languages like JSON. But it's faster and smaller.
• Package (by ... ) - Package UDF.
• pZip (by ... ) - PureZIP_L library UDF.
• UnRAR (by ... ) - UnRAR.au3.
• Zip plugin (by ... ) - Zip plugin.
• ZIP (by ... ) - ZIP.au3 UDF in pure AutoIt.
• zip (by ... ) - Create ZIP files and unpack ZIP files.
• ZIP (by ... ) - ZIP STRUCTS UDF (from scratch).
• zLib (by ... ) - zLib (Deflate/Inflate/GZIP) UDF.
• XZip (by eltorro) - another UDF for "XStandard XZIP Component".
• XZip (by mLipok) - UDF for "XStandard XZIP Component".

Encryption and hash

• AES Rijndael (by ... ) - Very fast AES UDF. Support ECB/CBC/CFB/OFB block cipher mode.
• MD5,SHA1,CRC32,RC4,BASE64,XXTEA (by ... ) - Several encryption and hash functions.
• TrueCrypt (by ... ) - TrueCrypt UDFs.

GUI Additions

• 3D Pie chart (by ... ) - 3D Pie chart.
• ContextHelp.au3 (by ... ) - Management of context help (original).
• Easy Scrollbars (by Melba23) - Easily create scrollable sections in your GUI.
• ExtMsgBox (by Melba23) - A very customisable replacement for MsgBox.
• GUICtrlOnChangeRegister (by ... ) - Call a function when an edits content is changed.
• GUIExtender (by Melba23) - Expand and contract sections of your GUI (original).
• GUIFrame (by Melba23 & Kip) - Divide a GUI into adjustable frames.
• GUI Panel (by ... ) - Manage child GUIs as panel ctrls.
• Modern tray menu (by ... ) - Allows the creation of modern, fancy GUI and tray menus with icons and colors.
• Pie chart (by ... ) - Pie chart.
• SetOnEvent (by ... ) - Provides an easy way for an event to call functions with parameters.
• Uskin (by ... ) - A library that allows a user to skin their application GUI using the Windows .MSstyles files.
• Toast (by Melba23) - Small message GUIs which pop out of the Systray.
• XSkin (by ... ) - A large library that allows skinning of your GUI and to apply custom skins.

Controls

• Calendar (by ... ) - Calendar UDF.
• Colorpicker (by ... ) - Create a button for the user to select a color.
• Graph control (by ... ) - Easily create and show bar chart and line charts.
• GUICtrlCreateFinder (by ... ) - Allows you to create a window finder control like the one seen in AutoIt Window Info.
• GUITreeViewEx (by Melba23) - Check/clear parent and child checkboxes in a TreeView.
• GUIHotkey (by ... ) - UDF for using native hotkey controls.
• GUIPager (by ... ) - Create and control native pager controls.
• GUI/Tray Menu (by Holger, LarsJ, AZJIO) - GUI/Tray Menu with icons and colors.
• Hotkey input control (by ... ) - Hotkeys Input Control UDF Library (Non-native).
• Marquees (by Melba23) - Make tickertape info bars.
• Progressbar with GDIplus (by ... ) - You even can use full textured images.
• Ribbon (by ... ) - UDF for Windows Ribbon framework.
• Syslink (by ... ) - Provides a convenient way to embed hypertext links in a window.
• Table (by ... ) - Table UDF.

Hardware

• CommAPI (by therealhanuta) - Serial and parallel communication (COM port, RS-232, LPT port) - without installing DLL's (using Windows API calls).
• Device Management (by weaponx) - Device Management API.
• DirectShow (by monoceres) - DirectShow UDF.
• DirectSound (by eukalyptus) - DirectSound UDF.
• Direct2D (by eukalyptus) - Direct2D UDF.
• FritzBox (by Allow2010) - _FB_Tools - manage your FritzBox from Autoit.
• I/O Port Functions (by Ascend4nt) - Input/Output UDF for interacting with ports (x64 Parallel Port, Keyboard etc.).
• Monitor Configuration (by jaberwacky) - Monitor Configuration UDF.
• Mouse (by AlmarM) - AutoIt powered mouse events.
• MouseTrapEvent (by ozmike) - MouseTrapEvent UDF.
• NetInfo (by Nessie) - UDF for test internet download speed and upload speed.
• Network configuration (by jguinch) - Network configuration UDF.
• Serial Port/COM (by martin) - Serial Port /COM Port UDF.
• SMARTDRIVE (by ptrex) - SMART drive Analysis.
• SPI Hardware Interface (by Blinky) - Communicate with the MAX335 chip using the SPI protocol via the LPT (printer) port.
• Webcam (by LIMITER) - Webcam UDF.
• Webcam (by ludocus) - Webcam UDF.

Information gathering

• Computer information (by JSThePatriot) - A general purpose library to get various details about a Windows machine.
• WinPcap (by JRSmile) - Wrapper for the windows packet capture library WinPcap.
• WinPcap (by Nicolas Ricquemaque) - A library to access the main functionalities offered by the WinPcap driver.

Internet protocol suite

• cURL (by ... ) - cURL UDF - a UDF for transferring data with URL syntax.
• IMAP (by ... ) - IMAP.
• IMAP4 (by ... ) - IMAP4 UDF.
• IRC (by ... ) - A lightweight library for communicating with IRC servers.
• IRC (by ... ) IRC UDF - Updated Version of Chips' IRC UDF.
• JSON (by ... ) - RFC4627 compliant JSON encode/decode.
• JSON (by ... ) - JSMN - A Non-Strict JSON UDF.
• JSON (by ... ) - Bridge to Native Windows JSON plus OO extension for AutoIt.
• POP3 (by Apzo ) - POP3 library for retrieving email messages. Not compatible with Gmail because it uses SSL.
• _POP3_Ex (by mLipok ) POP3 UDF According to the 1939 RFC, modified version with Quoted Printable decoder.
• POP3 SSL (by ... ) - A POP3 library that's compatible with Gmail. It uses an external executable that must be supplied with your script.
• Prowl (by ... ) - Prowl UDF.
• SFTP (by ... ) - UDF to support SFTP protocol using PSFTP.
• SMTP (by ... ) - Smtp Mailer That Supports Html And Attachments.
• SNMP (by ... ) - SNMP_UDF for SNMPv1 and SNMPv2c.
• SNMP - MIB protocol (by ... ) (Reading toner status from SNMP device with WMI).
• SSH (by ... ) - This UDF allows to use the SSH protocol very easily in your code.
• TCPServer (by ... ) - multi client, event-based, able to bind console app to socket.
• UPnP Protocol (by ... ) - UPnP : Read and Control your devices in side out.
• WinHTTP (by ... ) - Access the HTTP protocol for creating GET and POST requests and submitting them with conforming standards, cookies not supported.
• WinInet (by ... ) - Access standard Internet protocols (FTP, Gopher and HTTP). Supports GET/POST requests and cookies.

Maths

• Advanced rounding (by ... ) - Support for different measures of accuracy and 8 ways to resolve tie breaks.
• Big number (by ... ) - Make calculations with extremely large numbers that AutoIt normally is not able to support.
• Decimal To fraction (by ... ) - Converts any decimal number to a fraction. Example: 1.2 to 6/5.
• Number base conversion (by ... ) - From, to and between positive bases less than 63 (decimals supported).
• NumToWord (by ... ) - Convert numerals to a human readable string.
• Polynomials (by ... ) - Functions for using polynomials.
• Primes (by ... ) - Many functions dealing with prime number generation and calculations.
• Roman Numerals (by AZJIO) - Roman Numerals.
• Root function (by ... ) - Working out real roots of numbers.
• StringAPL (by ... ) - inline APL interpreter.
• Trigonometry math functions (by ... ) - _ATan2(), _Cosh(), _Frexp(), _Hypot(), _Ldexp(), _Logb(), _Sinh(), _Tanh().

Media

• FreeImage library (by ... ) - Various operations on images, such as rotate, resize, flip.
• HtmlHelp (by ... ) - HtmlHelp UDF.
• OCR (by ... ) - Real OCR in AU3 - MODI with MS Office 2003.
• OCR (by ... ) - Tesseract (Screen OCR) UDF.
• Printer controller (by ... ) - Print text in any font, size and colour at any position on the page, draw lines, curves, elipses, pies in any colour, and print images.
• Printing (by ... ) - Printing from AutoIt.
• RTF_Printer (by ... ) - RTF_Printer.au3 - Printing RichEdit in the background.
• Simple DirectMedia Layer (by ... ) - Adds support for joysticks, CDs, 2D graphics, timers. See SDL website for more information.

Graphics and image

• Bitmap Library (by ... ) - Bitmap Library.
• IrrLicht (by ... ) - A 3D graphics engine suitable for creating games.
• au3Irrlicht2 (by ... ) - Another UDF bringing Irrlicht and au3 together. Historically some kind of a follower of the UDF above, technically with a complete different approach.
• ImageGetInfo (by ... ) - This is an UDF for reading info from JPEG, TIFF, BMP, PNG and GIF - size, color depth, resolution.
• OpenGL (by ... ) - OpenGL without external libraries etc. For JPEG files UDF also retreive various Exif information.
• OpenGL (2.0) (by ... ) - new set of UDFs for OpenGL + AutoIt.

Players

• VLC (by ... ) - VLC (Media Player) UDF.
• VLC Media Player (by ... ) - VLC Media Player.
• WMP (by ... ) - Windows Media Player UDF.

Sound

• BASS Function Library (by ... ) - Sound and Music via wrappers for Bass, BassEnc, Bass FX, BassSFX, BassAsio and BassCd DLLs.
• MIDI (by ... ) - MIDI UDF.
• SAPIListBox (by ... ) - SAPIListBox (Speech Recognition) UDF.
• TTS (by ... ) - Text-to-Speech UDF.

PDF

• Acrobat Reader - ActiveX Viewer (by mLipok) - UDF for use with Acrobat Reader ActiveX COM Object "AcroPDF.PDF.1"
• Debenu PDF Viewer SDK (by mLipok) - A collection of functions to display PDF files in your applications using Debenu PDF Viewer SDK.
• Debenu Quick PDF Library (by mLipok) - A collection of functions for Debenu Quick PDF Library.
• FoxIt Reader (by ptrex) - PDF Reader in AU3.
• MPDF (by taietel) - Create PDF from your application.
• PDFCreator (by ptrex) - Automation of PDFCreator allows you to create and manipulate PDF files.
• PDFCreator (by mLipok) - UDF for PDFCreator v1.x.x with working EVENTs Handler.
• _StringToPDF (by Tam0r) - Write a string to a PDF file and specify font size, type etc.

Security

• VirusTotal (by Danyfirex) - VirusTotal API 2.0 UDF.

Social Media and other Website API

• CrowdinAPI (by mLipok) - UDF using the crowdin.net website API for some functions (create projects, add and update files, download translations or integrate localization).
• Dropbox authenticator (by Gimerly) - Dropbox authenticator.
• Easypost (by dcat127) - Print USPS Postage Labels.
• eBay (by seangriffin) - eBay UDF.
• Gmail (by PhoenixXL) - Remote Gmail (UDF).
• Google Functions (by Beege) - Google Functions.
• Google Maps (by seangriffin) - Google Maps UDF.
• iTunes (by torels) - iTunes UDF.
• iTunes (by Beege) - another iTunes UDF.
• No-IP (by Nessie) - With this UDF you can simply update your no-ip hostname(s) and retrive the ip address of an no-ip address.
• PasteBin (by mrflibblehat) - Pastebin UDF.
• Skype (by FireFox) - Skype4COM provides an ActiveX interface to the Skype API.
• Teamspeak 3 (by chipDE) - Teamspeak 3 UDF.
• TeamViewer API (by mLipok) - UDF for TeamViewer API - a modest beginning.
• TVmaze.com API (by BBs19) - TVmaze.com API UDF (TV-Series).
• Twitter (by seangriffin) - Twitter UDF.
• Yahoo Weather (by Nessie) - YWeather UDF - Yahoo Weather API.
• Youtube Uploader (by BrettF) - AYTU - AutoIt Youtube Uploader.

Windows

• ACL (by ... ) - Set ACL on windows Objects.
• FileSystemMonitor (by ... ) - FileSystemMonitor UDF.
• Firewall (by ... ) - Windows Firewall UDF.
• ITaskBarList (by ... ) - ITaskBarList UDF.
• Local account (by ... ) - Local account UDF.
• Magnifier Functions (by ... ) - Magnifier Functions - Windows Vista+ Magnifier Manipulation.
• Magnifier Functions (by ... ) - This UDF exposes most of the useful Magnifier API functions available since Windows Vista.
• Registry (by ... ) - Windows Registry UDFs.
• Registry (by ... ) - RegWriteAllUsers / RegDeleteAllUsers.
• Startup (by ... ) - Create Startup entries in the Startup Folder or Registry.
• System restore (by ... ) - System restore UDF.
• Taskplanner/Taskscheduler COM (by ... ) - an UDF for using the Windows Taskplaner / Task Scheduler.
• Task Scheduler (by ... ) - Task Scheduler UDF.
• UAC (by ... ) - User Account Control (UAC) UDF.
• WIMGAPI (by ... ) - A UDF for manipulating Windows Image Files (.wim) without ImageX.exe.
• Windows Events (by ... ) - Create your own Windows events.
• Windows Services (by ... ) - Windows Services UDF.
• WRMF (by ... ) - WRMF - Windows Registry Monitor Call Function.

Misc

• Android (by Moriba) - Android UDF.
• Animated tray icons (by ... ) - Make animated tray icons easily.
• Atom Table (by ... ) - Basically, a bunch of strings can be stored locally (at program level) or globally (at O/S level) with unique numerical identifiers. This UDF lets you add, find, delete, and query these atoms.
• Barcode generators (by willichan ) - Creates a Code128A/B/C or Creates a Code39 or Code39Extended optimized barcode from supplied data.
• Binary (by ... ) - Binary UDF.
• BinaryCall (by ... ) - BinaryCall UDF - Write Subroutines In C, Call In AutoIt.
• Clipboard History/Sotrage (by ... ) - UDF to save and restore the entire clipboard contents.
• CmdLine (by Jefrey ) - Collection of functions to parse command line arguments.
• Copy (by ... ) - This small library allows simple and reliable way to copy or move files and directories without suspending your script. Moreover, you can get the current state (number of copied bytes, system error code, and other status information) while copying.
• DDEML (by ... ) - With DDEML UDF one can use an AutoIt script as a DDE client or server.
• _DLLStructDisplay (by ... ) - Show Struct in ListView.
• FASM (by ... ) - The Embedded Flat Assembler (FASM) UDF.
• _FileGetMimeType (by ... ) - _FileGetMimeType UDF.
• File locking with cooperative semaphores (by ... ) - Simple file locking without a server.
• FindMimeFromData (by ... ) - FindMimeFromData using urlmon.dll.
• Hotkey.au3 (by ... ) - Management of Hotkeys UDF, with several advantages over HotkeySet().
• Inline Assembly (by ... ) -
• LFN (by ... ) - LFN UDF - overcome MAX_PATH limit of 256 chars.
• MemoryDll (by ... ) - Embed DLLs in script and call functions from memory.
• NoFocusLines (by Melba23) - Remove the dotted focus lines from buttons, sliders, radios and checkboxes which spoil the look of your GUI.
• NotifyIcon (by ... ) - NotifyIcon UDF (formerly TrayIconEx) - Create, delete and manage self notify icons.
• PixelGetColor (by ... ) - Get or Read Pixel from Memory UDF.
• RDC (by ... ) - ReadDirectoryChanges Wrapper.
• Resources (by ... ) - Resources UDF.
• ResourcesEx (by ... ) - ResourcesEx UDF (up to date with the current AutoIt language syntax v3.3.12.0).
• Spell Checker (by ... ) - Spell Checker UDF - Hunspell.
• SQLite Array Functions (by ... ) - SQLite Array Functions - a faster method for unique arrays and sorting methods.
• StringSize (by Melba23) - Automatically size controls to fit the text you want to put in them.
• Synology filestation (by ... ) - UDF for users of Synology NAS server.
• TVExplorer (by ... ) - TVExplorer UDF.