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Hi,
Does anyone know or use other automation tools than AutoHotKey for simple automations?
I'm curious about automating Edge, Chrome and other browsers, as well having at least a part of functionality of AutoHotKey.
Is there any other tools, which are free and allows it?

Some ideas... concerning browsers: Well, for Chrome there is geekdude's Chrome.ahk library (similar to COM for IE). There is also the (third-party) Selenium Webdriver which can work with different browsers (works with AHK https://the-automator.com/cross-browser ... -selenium/ and other programming languages).

Without AHK, there is this whole software category called headless browsers (no GUI, mainly for testing but might be useful for certain use cases).
Usually: the more powerful, the more complicated it gets - and simple usually means not very powerful.
I think there are also some add-ons for browsers that can do specialized things... and bookmarklets.

It really depends what you want to do exactly...

You can automate any browser that supports the W3C WebDriver without Selenium (Selenium for VBA does not work with latest Firefox).
Here is example on autoit:
https://www.autoitscript.com/forum/topic/191990-webdriver-udf-w3c-compliant-version-11212018/

malcev wrote: ↑

07 Feb 2019, 02:27

You can automate any browser that supports the W3C WebDriver without Selenium (Selenium for VBA does not work with latest Firefox).
Here is example on autoit:
https://www.autoitscript.com/forum/topic/191990-webdriver-udf-w3c-compliant-version-11212018/

Hey malcev ... When you say "you can automate" do you mean
1 - "you, using Autohotkey" or
2 - "you, using AutoIT"

Using autohotkey.
But You have to translate code from autoit.

Definitely some of the AutoHotkey web wizards should jump on the geckodriver for automating FireFox.
https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases

As far as browsers go, FireFox is just as, if not more popular, than Internet Explorer & Edge. AutoHotkey definitely has Internet Explorer & Edge (Edit- Sorry folks, Edge is still a problem) down to a science, but could use some more work in taming FireFox.

AutoHotkey does have a library for Chrome, called weirdly enough, Chrome.ahk
It's here- https://www.autohotkey.com/boards/viewtopic.php?t=42890

AutoHotkey definitely has Internet Explorer & Edge down to a science

I don't think that this is true for Edge...

@malcev
hmmm ... more properly THAT sentence would have to be "some smart person would have to translate the code from autoit"

@SOTE
I have been able to produce good results with IE but had no idea that "Edge down to a science" ... May we trouble you for insights on that method ???

elmo wrote: ↑

15 Feb 2019, 13:08

@malcev
hmmm ... more properly THAT sentence would have to be "some smart person would have to translate the code from autoit"

@SOTE
I have been able to produce good results with IE but had no idea that "Edge down to a science" ... May we trouble you for insights on that method ???

Unfortunately, I have abandoned Edge for Chrome and Firefox. Ooops, apparently I jumped the gun on speaking for Edge. Seems it's still a bit of a problem child.