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Snackaholic
Snackaholic

Reputation: 610

Bat File do delayed keypress

I'm trying to create a batch script which opens Spotify and starts the playlist by sending the keypress spacebar

What I got is the following

start chrome.exe "https://play.spotify.com/chart/4rcbQSKQHID0UdZzODxg2Y"
sleep 8
WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell").SendKeys("{SPACE}");

which opens the browser with the mentioned website. Sadly nothing happens after that. Anybody got an idea how to solve this problem?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 667

Answers (1)

phuclv
phuclv

Reputation: 41764

According to the SendKeys documentation:

To send a space, send the string " ".

So you must send " " instead of {SPACE}

WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell").SendKeys(" ");

More importantly, it's a Windows Script Host command so you can't run it directly in a batch file. You must store it in a separate vbs file and then run that file or use a hybrid batch-vbs file. Otherwise you'll get an error like this

'WScript.CreateObject' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

Upvotes: 1

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