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Skytunnel
Skytunnel

Reputation: 1083

Web bowser automation alternatives after IE11 is discontinued?

Over the last 10 years I have build a few business critical IE11 automation tools that use the COM object of Internet Explorer to automate laborious tasks.

Specifically tasks such as page navigation for web scraping purposes; as well JavaScript execution for automating business processes.

With IE11 being discontinued soon, what are the alternative options to web browser automation?

I have code written in VBA, vbscript, and PowerShell

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1309

Answers (1)

Deepak-MSFT
Deepak-MSFT

Reputation: 11365

I suggest you check the Microsoft Web driver and try to automate the MS Edge (Chromium) browser.

It supports many developing languages such as C#, Ruby, Java, Python, and JS. See here.

There are many advantages to automate the MS Edge (Chromium) browser.

If your clients are having the legacy websites that can only work with the IE browser then there is an IE mode available in the MS Edge (Chromium) browser and you can also automate that IE mode.

Scroll to the Automating Internet Explorer mode point

So I think that this can be the suitable choice to automate the browser.

Upvotes: 0

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