help on internet

im just wondering... is there a program i can download so that i could have a program run automated commands within a web browser? (i.e. open this page, click this link, do it once an hour even while im gone). i have basically no programming experience... any ideas?

 

You can script internet explorer with VBScript.

Code:

option explicit

dim o_ie

set o_ie = CreateObject ("InternetExplorer.Application")

o_ie.visible = true

do until false = true
o_ie.navigate "http://www.majorgeeks.com"
do until o_ie.readystate = 4
WScript.Sleep 100
loop
o_ie.navigate "about:blank"
WScript.Sleep 3600000
loop

If you were to copy the above code into notepad and save as filename.vbs, you would have a script that launched internet explorer, made the window visible, browsed to www.majorgeeks.com, waited until it was loaded fully (checking once every 10th of a second), loaded a blank page, then reloaded majorgeeks again in an hour, until you killed the wscript.exe process. You can change the URL in the quotes to point to another webite.

 

If you're just trying to keep your internet connection alive, there are apps to do that. Check out the Internet Tools section on the website.

 

no, im mainly trying to do things for games that would help me do things that normally would take me an hour or so to go through.