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m4nu
m4nu

Reputation: 11

Click a Internet Explorer Link/Button with Powershell

I try to click a link on a wlan captive portal with a powershell script. The issue is, the method can't be found and i get the following error.

Method invocation failed because [System.__ComObject] does not contain a method named 'click'.

The relevant section of my script:

$ie = New-Object -ComObject 'internetExplorer.Application'
$ie.Visible = $true
$ie.Navigate($url)

Do {
    Start-Sleep -Seconds 3
} while ($ie.Busy)

$button = $ie.document.getElementsByClassName('dtag-button btn btn-dark btn-block center-block btn-start')
$button.Click()

I also tried the Submit() method, but get also the same error. Method invocation failed because [System.__ComObject] does not contain a method named 'Submit'.

The source code of the website respectively the relevant section:

<div class="button-wrapper module-content">
<a class="dtag-button btn btn-dark btn-block center-block btn-start" role="button" href="https://www.hotspot.de/" target="_blank" transloco="welcome.button.startSurfing">Start surfing</a>
<!----></div>

Many thanks in advance!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 107

Answers (1)

m4nu
m4nu

Reputation: 11

The solution for the problem

$button = $ie.document.getElementsByClassName('dtag-button btn btn-dark btn-block center-block btn-start') | where-object {$_.role -eq 'button'}

Many thanks to Dai for the hint!

Upvotes: 1

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