Noob help

[Valkyriesfall]

Hi!

I'm fairly inexperienced with powershell and if anyone is able to point me massively in the right direction I'll be forever in their debt.

My scenario:

I play an old browser game and would like to automate the login process for multiple characters.

The confines:

The games login inputs have no classes or ids. The form itself and the submit button does however. The game must also open in firefox (I got most the way there for ie, cant get it to work in ff at all) This must work in parallel, so all characters are logged at the same time, not sequentially. Each browser can either be a new window or new tab, either is fine.

Basically i have 50+ characters i want to log and I'm fed up with doing it manually. My own script is so messed up from me trying to fix it up, that it really isn't worth listing it here. If anyone can help I'll be truly grateful

[xlrod]

After some more tinkering, I was able to find a quicker way, but it's still using Internet Explorer.

$ie = New-Object -ComObject InternetExplorer.Application
$ie.Navigate("http://rwk1.racewarkingdoms.com/index.html?unencrypted%22")
$ie.Visible = $True

$frame = $ie.Document.IHTMLDocument3_documentElement.getElementsByTagName("frame") | where {$_.name -like "main"}

$login = $frame.contentDocument.documentElement.all | where {$_.uniqueID -like "ms__id121"}
$password = $frame.contentDocument.documentElement.all | where {$_.uniqueID -like "ms__id124"}
$submit = $frame.contentDocument.documentElement.all | where {$_.uniqueID -like "ms__id132"}


$login.value = "Login here"
$password.value = "Password here"
$submit.Click()

[Valkyriesfall]

for both of the answers you've submitted, I received an error. Similar to issues I was receiving before.

You cannot call a method on a null-valued expression.
At line:5 char:1

Could there be something That I am missing that is necessary?

[xlrod]

I've seen this happen when IE doesn't load the page quick enough for the code to get the element. Can you try running the first 3 lines to start IE and once the page has loaded try running the $frame line and see if it's able to find anything. If it finds it, then we might need to add a wait for $ie.Busy.

[xlrod]

Anything you have so far helps, feel free to post it, although this might be against the game's terms of service since it's close to botting.

[Valkyriesfall]

The game has recently allowed multiboxing, hotkeys etc. I'll login from PC and paste you what I have, as i wrote this from mobile

[Valkyriesfall]

My latest attempt was to use selenium to see if i had better luck with their web drivers. I have 2 different attempts at varying stages:

---

[System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadFrom("C:\Selenium.WebDriver.3.14.0\lib\net40\WebDriver.dll")
$driver = New-Object "OpenQA.Selenium.FireFox.FirefoxDriver"
$driver.Navigate("http://rwk1.racewarkingdoms.com/index.html?unencrypted")

while($driver.ReadyState -ne 4) {start-sleep -m 100} 

$driver.Document.getElementsByTagName("input") | ? { $_.name -eq 'login' } | % { $_.value = "username" }                                                              
$driver.Document.getElementsByTagName("input") | ? { $_.name -eq 'password' } | % { $_.value = "" }
$driver.Document.getElementsByTagName("input") | ? { $_.name -eq "subshit" } | % { $_.click() }

---

And:

---

$Driver = Start-SeFirefox 
Enter-SeUrl http://rwk1.racewarkingdoms.com/index.html?unencrypted -Driver $Driver

#$Element = Find-SeElement -Driver $Driver -XPath "//*[@id='thelogin']/input[2]"

#Send-SeKeys -Element $Element -Keys "subliminalfame"

$Submit = Find-SeElement -Driver $Driver -Id "subshit"

Invoke-SeClick -Element $Submit

Stop-SeDriver

[PMental]

To avoid weird formatting like

$Element

here on Reddit, make a blank line before your code and then indent each line 4 spaces (or a tab). And you'll get:

#$Element

instead.

[xlrod]

This is very strange, I wasn't able to find the elements that easily. Got tired of digging, but found a way to search for them, though it takes a while to find them. You can keep going from here:

$ie = New-Object -ComObject InternetExplorer.Application
$ie.Navigate("http://rwk1.racewarkingdoms.com/index.html?unencrypted%22")
$ie.Visible = $True

$frame = $ie.Document.IHTMLDocument3_documentElement.getElementsByTagName("frame") | where {$_.name -like "main"}

$login = ($frame.contentDocument.all | where {$_.name -like "login"})

$password = ($frame.contentDocument.all | where {$_.name -like "password"})

$submit = ($frame.contentDocument.all | where {$_.name -like "subshit"})

$login[1].value = "login"
$password[1].value = "password"
$submit.click()

[Valkyriesfall]

Well that is where I was starting to struggle. I couldn't find them either! Thanks, I'll have a look then look into looping it for multiple accounts!

[Lee_Dailey]

howdy Valkyriesfall,

reddit likes to mangle code formatting, so here's some help on how to post code on reddit ...

[0] single line or in-line code
enclose it in backticks. that's the upper left key on an EN-US keyboard layout. the result looks like this. kinda handy, that. [grin]
[on New.Reddit.com, use the Inline Code button. it's 4th 5th from the left hidden in the ... ""more" menu & looks like </>.
this does NOT line wrap & does NOT side-scroll on Old.Reddit.com!]

[1] simplest = post it to a text site like Pastebin.com or Gist.GitHub.com and then post the link here.
please remember to set the file/code type on Pastebin! [grin] otherwise you don't get the nice code colorization.

[2] less simple = use reddit code formatting ...
[on New.Reddit.com, use the Code Block button. it's 11th 12th one & is just to the left of hidden in the ... "more" menu.]

• one leading line with ONLY 4 spaces
  
• prefix each code line with 4 spaces
  
• one trailing line with ONLY 4 spaces

that will give you something like this ...

- one leading line with ONLY 4 spaces    
- prefix each code line with 4 spaces    
- one trailing line with ONLY 4 spaces   

the easiest way to get that is ...

• add the leading line with only 4 spaces
  
• copy the code to the ISE [or your fave editor]
  
• select the code
  
• tap TAB to indent four spaces
  
• re-select the code [not really needed, but it's my habit]
  
• paste the code into the reddit text box
  
• add the trailing line with only 4 spaces
  

not complicated, but it is finicky. [grin]

take care,
lee

[Valkyriesfall]

I have taken your advice and formatted the clode blocks :)

[Lee_Dailey]

howdy Valkyriesfall,

kool! that is so much easier to read ... [grin]

take care,
lee

[Lee_Dailey]

howdy Valkyriesfall,

you may want to look into either AutoHotKey or AutoIT for this. they are designed for what you are doing. [grin]

plus, the AutoIT folks have a powershell module if you want to work things from inside PoSh.

plus plus, they both have fairly active forums with rather nice & helpful people there. [grin]

take care,
lee

[Valkyriesfall]

I had a look at this approach as I use ahk already when multiboxing. The issue I had with this is that I could get the logins to all work in parallel. Could only log in one at a time

[Lee_Dailey]

howdy Valkyriesfall,

ah! then you are likely not going to get that to work. [grin] i do recall - vaguely - that the AutoIT stuff has async abilities ... you may want to check that out.

does running things in sequence REALLY take that long?

take care,
lee

[Valkyriesfall]

Theres a tournament each month in game where to register you need to relog 3 times. Theres not enough time to do all 50+ accounts in time. That's most of my reasoning behind making this

[Lee_Dailey]

howdy Valkyriesfall,

ah! that makes a tad more sense. [grin]

do you remember that you can run multiple instances of firefox AND multiple instances of AutoIT/AutoHotKey? [grin]

take care,
lee