Saving page in file

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1

Good morning,
I’m developing a project in Powershell. My code is below. Basically it should log into gmail site and save content to file. But I am not getting save the page of my emails on file. I’ve done ​​several attempts and I am not getting save the page results in file. I am sending the code to log into gmail … please if you can help save the result in a txt file I thank you very much. Follows the code for your review:

$ie = new-object -com “InternetExplorer.Application”
$ie.navigate(“about:blank”)
$doc = $ie.Document
$ie.visible = $true

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Function NavigateTo([string] $url, [int] $delayTime = 2000)
{
Write-Verbose “Navigating to $url”;
$ie.Navigate($url)
WaitForPage $delayTime
}

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Function WaitForPage([int] $delayTime = 2000)
{
$loaded = $false
while ($loaded -eq $false) {
[System.Threading.Thread]::Sleep($delayTime)
#If the browser is not busy, the page is loaded
if (-not $ie.Busy)
{
$loaded = $true
}
}

$doc = $ie.Document
}

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Function SetElementValueByID($id, $value) {
if ($doc -eq $null) {
Write-Error “Document is null”;
break
}

$element = [System.__ComObject].InvokeMember(“getElementById”,[System.Reflection.BindingFlags]::InvokeMethod, $null, $doc, $id)
if ($element -ne $null) {
$element.Value = $value
}
else {
Write-Warning “Couldn’t find any element with id “”$id”“”;
}
}

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Function ClickElementById($id)
{
$element = [System.__ComObject].InvokeMember(“getElementById”,[System.Reflection.BindingFlags]::InvokeMethod, $null, $doc, $id)
if ($element -ne $null) {
$element.Click()
WaitForPage
}
else {
Write-Error “Couldn’t find element with id “”$id”“”
break
}
}

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Function ClickElementByTagName($tagName, [int] $position = 0)
{
if ($doc -eq $null) {
Write-Error “Document is null”
break
}
$elements = @([System.__ComObject].InvokeMember(“getElementsByClassName”,[System.Reflection.BindingFlags]::InvokeMethod, $null, $doc, $tagname))
if ($elements.Count -ne 0) {
$elements[$position].Click()
WaitForPage
}
else {
Write-Error “Couldn’t find element “”$tagName”" at position “”$position"“”;
break
}
}

NavigateTo “http://www.gmail.com”;
SetElementValueByID “Email” “someone@gmail.com”
SetElementValueByID “Passwd” “mypassword”
ClickElementById “signIn”

2

I don’t see anything in your code that attempts to save a page to disk. I haven’t tested it, but it looks like you just fill in the username / password boxes and click “Sign in”, then do nothing else.

3

This is my dilemma. I tried various codes to try to save the page to disk, but none worked. I was wondering how do I go from here to save the contents of the page to disk.

4

I tried at the end:

Start-Sleep -s 5
$ie.document.body.outerHTML | Out-File -FilePath c:\MyPage.html

but not work.

I’ve tried this way, but it generates an empty file at any site.
I also tried the following:

$web = New-Object Net.WebClient
$web.DownloadString($ie.LocationURL)

But it does not work.
The most we can is save the page, but no information after login (the contents of the email).

The exact contents of the logged window I can not capture.

I know it’s kind of boring, but I burned both their heads trying… I dont see no more solution.

I’m no longer able to think of anything more to solve it.

5

Are you aware of the Invoke-WebRequest cmdlet? and Invoke Invoke-RestMethod?

[url]http://technet.microsoft.com/library/hh849901.aspx[/url]

[url]http://technet.microsoft.com/library/hh849971.aspx[/url]

Google may have a restful API to do what you’re doing. You’re basically trying to screen scrape using the status of Internet Explorer as it loads a page.

That being said anything you collect in your variables can be written to file quite easily.

$variablename | Out-File -FilePath d:\temp\filename.txt -Append

Unless you mean that you are trying to write a file to the google drive that would need another API and a lot more coding.

If you do mean Google drive they have an application that you can install that runs in the system tray that allows you to treat it as a local drive. I have never used it because I prefer one drive by Microsoft.

6

[url]https://tools.google.com/dlpage/drive[/url]

7

[url]গুগল এপিআই এক্সপ্লোরার  |  Google APIs Explorer  |  Google Developers << here is their cryptic API for google drive

8

Thank you for your help,
but it would be to save it to disk.

The problem is that the code: $ie.document.body.outerHTML
returns nothing for me.

9

So is the purpose of this script to auto log you into your gmail page?

have you heard of secure utilities that do this exact thing for you such as [url]https://lastpass.com/[/url]

I still think the screen scraping method and looking for title bar changes in the internet Explorer browser is an old school way of doing things. It’s a fun little project if that is all you’re trying to do with it but your password to your gmail account will live in the script in clear text. It’s a fun learning exercise but if the end goal is to use it daily I would recommend lastpass or something like it.

To answer your question I guess you could do this. . .

ie.Document.body.outerHTML | Out-File d:\temp\gmail.html

But the results did not look good when I tried it. This would in theory I guess save a snapshot of your inbox as a static HTML page on your disk but to what end? I’m not sure what it accomplishes. If I understood your goals I could try and help better…sorry

I would spend your time trying to figure out their restful API if automating email actions is what you’re trying to do.

-VERN