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Help creating batch file to open/close a website

Hi All -

I've been tasked to come up with a way to execute an asp webpage each morning at 9am. The page performs some calls to my Database and emails the results to a specific set of users.

I did some research online and found out that I need to create a "Batch" file and have a "Schedule Task" execute it daily.

I've never written a batch file so my question is this:

How does one create a batch file to

A. Open a browser to a specific website/page thus executing the ASP code that emails the results.
B. Close the browser once the page has completely loaded.

Thanks for your help!

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Gabriel Clifton

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Montoya

a batch file is basically a text file with some commands.. pretty simple.
It seems, however, that you need a little more functionality. I'd suggest a script like the kind you can create with AutoIT.

https://www.autoitscript.com/site/autoit/

I don't know that they have a way to detect if a page has 'fully loaded'. I guess technically, you could write a value to the user's cache file (assuming the webpage is internal and you designed it".. you could also tell the script to wait a specific amount of time and then close it.

Montoya

Gabriel.. that's a cool use of ping

cdemott33

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Gabriel -

This line here:

ping 127.0.0.1 -n 8 -l 0
taskkill /f /im iexplore.exe /t

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Could you explain to me what it's doing?

Gabriel Clifton

The first line there is executing a ping to act like a pause, the next one kills internet explorer

cdemott33

ASKER

Thanks Gabriel. I'll give this a try.

Gabriel Clifton

No problem.