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TagUI support for IE (internet explorer) or Edge #154

Closed kensoh closed 6 years ago

kensoh commented 6 years ago

Raising this on behalf on a user's query through email, so that other users can benefit.

Can I check with you if there will be any future support for IE?

kensoh commented 6 years ago

Can you tell me more about your use scenario?

If go by the underlying framework, CasperJS does not have integrations with IE (internet explorer) or Edge. If go directly by TagUI Chrome DevTools Protocol integration, there is an IE adapter but looks unmaintained. There is an Edge adapter that looks maintained.

My guess is these 2 would likely to be the entry points to explore integrating with IE or Edge. Though at the moment, integrating with IE or Edge is not in the development pipeline as other items have bigger and more urgent impact.

At the moment, you can consider using the visual automation functionality of TagUI to talk to IE. But that will be based on visual recognition to click and enter text and OCR using the read step. Should work for simple use cases but not for advance cases where data needs to be extracted with fine-tune control.

kensoh commented 6 years ago

response from potential user

Thanks for your prompt reply. Reason why I'm asking for IE is because in the organisation, IE is the only official supported browser and we are not allowed to install Chrome.

Currently, I'm using PowerShell to do some simple IE web automation to go in and extract some values for checking purposes. Comparing it with yours, your coding is so much simpler! Hence, if TagUI supports IE, I would gladly change it.

Thank you again for sharing this useful info. Some day I do hope it supports IE. :)

my response / recommendation

I see.. Got it, I'll keep note of demand for IE while I clear the pressing stuffs in pipeline. Thanks for sharing your potential use scenario.

Want to check if you go straight to the packaged installation below and download the package zip for your OS, will it work for you? The default execution mode the engine is actually PhantomJS.

https://github.com/kelaberetiv/TagUI#packaged-installation

The packaged installation comes with all dependencies packaged in, so at some institutions, we are surprised that folks can just download, unzip, and run, without special admin access to that computers or need to install / setup anything.

Adding on, there is a section of the home page with a few points on security review and assessment, if you may find it useful to gauge whether to use the tool, if it works by zipping and running.

kensoh commented 6 years ago

user response

Yes, it works perfectly just by downloading the Windows package. It only took me less than 5 mins to get it up and running one of your examples. Truly amazing I must say. Coz, I've tried other RPA like Leo, UiPath, etc.. the learning curve is simply too high.

I actually got to know your product after attending a talk by Laurence Liew / @beowulf68

lim-enhui commented 5 years ago

in similar scenario HP Quality web enterprise application uses action script or something that I do not know of for its component and apparent there is no web components for me to use.. and also it only do support with internet explorer...