The best way to open and close automatically at a specified time to prevent memory leaks(VBscript)

Paper · March 6, 2021, 8:17pm

So, is it working then?

mehrdad_vardipoor · March 6, 2021, 8:23pm

mehrdad_vardipoor · March 6, 2021, 8:24pm

You mean the space in the profile name, when running the profile or when killing؟
I add double quotes when running profile. When killing the process I do not know is needed?

Paper · March 6, 2021, 8:41pm

When the error is “You cannot call a method on a null-valued expression” it means it couldn’t find the process chrome.exe with the command-line argument “profile 2” ($scriptName). Can you verify Chrome’s command line arguments with a tool like Process Hacker to see if it’s really present?

mehrdad_vardipoor · March 6, 2021, 8:51pm

mehrdad_vardipoor · March 6, 2021, 9:02pm

If you have a question why --profile-directory is used. I have to say that after your code snippet did not work, I restored it to its previous state.

I can no longer answer. The number of replies exceeded the allowable limit (I am a new user). I have to wait 11 hours.

but i can edit

its work but just for profile 2 and dont work with profile 3
Apparently, when the first Chrome profile is opened, all Chrome processes and other profiles(any other profile) are subset of it. Please see this link where the last answer was written. Last comment.

Paper · March 6, 2021, 9:12pm

Try $scriptName = “Profile 2” instead of “profile 2” (case sensitive)

Paper · March 7, 2021, 3:54am

Indeed that’s the case, you can’t use Chrome profiles. You have to use --user-data-dir

mehrdad_vardipoor · March 7, 2021, 8:50am

It worked well now.
The problem was with me where I said

My code was the first time it opened Chrome with a profile and the second time with user-data-dir
Now, as you said, a new window has opened without the ui.vision plugin.
And your code worked. Only master 1 and master 2 windows are closed.
but While it works. It also gives an error. see this

mehrdad_vardipoor · March 8, 2021, 6:46pm

Thanks to the dear user “Paper”

This is the solution

Run Chrome with --user-data-dir = “Your Chrome profile name” (below code)

Set shell=CreateObject("Shell.Application")
' shell.ShellExecute "application", "arguments", "path", "verb", window
shell.ShellExecute  "chrome.exe"," --user-data-dir=""c:\test\Profile 1""","""C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\""", "", 1

Set shell=CreateObject("Shell.Application")
' shell.ShellExecute "application", "arguments", "path", "verb", window
shell.ShellExecute  "chrome.exe"," --user-data-dir=""c:\test\Profile 2""","""C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\""", "", 1

use follow code and replace “myMacro” with your chrome profile name

Paper:

$scriptName = "myMacro"
$filterString = "Name='chrome.exe' AND CommandLine LIKE '%{0}%'" -f $scriptName # $profileArgs would be better, but for some reason gives an error
(Get-WmiObject win32_process -filter $filterString).Terminate()

and enjoy

Paper · March 8, 2021, 7:50pm

You can remove the $profileArgs variable, that was there just in case you wanted to use it to start Chrome

mehrdad_vardipoor · March 8, 2021, 9:06pm

ok deleted and thank you

mehrdad_vardipoor · March 10, 2021, 9:48am

hi again paper
can you give me your code in vbscript?

i convert it to:

Set sh = WScript.CreateObject ("WScript.Shell")

sh.run "cmd /k powershell.exe -command (Get-WmiObject win32_process -filter (""Name='chrome.exe' AND CommandLine LIKE '%{0}%'"" -f ""master1"")).Terminate()"

But it gives me the error below:

Name=chrome.exe : The term 'Name=chrome.exe' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again. At line:1 char:39 + (Get-WmiObject win32_process -filter (Name='chrome.exe' AND CommandLi ... + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (Name=chrome.exe:String) [], CommandNotFoundException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException

Paper · March 15, 2021, 1:52am

Hi again,

Sorry, I don’t use VBScript. Probably you need to escape the contents after sh.run, like this:

sh.run "cmd \/k powershell.exe -command (Get-WmiObject win32_process -filter (\"\"Name=\'chrome.exe\' AND CommandLine LIKE \'%{0}%\'\"\" -f \"\"master1\"\")).Terminate()"
// Or this:
sh.run "cmd /k powershell.exe -command (Get-WmiObject win32_process -filter (\"\"Name=\'chrome.exe\' AND CommandLine LIKE \'%{0}%\'\"\" -f \"\"master1\"\")).Terminate()"

It’s possible none of the lines above work as I don’t know how to performing string escaping in VBScript. On a side note, I’m using a slightly modified version of this script, you might want to check it out:

github.com

A9T9/RPA/blob/master/command-line/powershell/run one macro forever.ps1

###########################################################################
#This script shows how to run a macro "forever" 
# by checking on the command line return value
# and killing/restarting Chrome if needed
###########################################################################



function PlayAndWait ([string]$macro)
{
$timeout_seconds = 60 #max time in seconds allowed for macro to complete. Change this value if  your macros takes longer to run.
$path_downloaddir = "c:\test\" #Where the script finds the kantu log files => *THIS MUST BE THE BROWSER DOWNLOAD FOLDER*, as specified in the browser settings
$path_autorun_html = "c:/test/ui.vision.html" #autorun page exported from API setttings page.

#Optional: Kill Chrome instances (if any open)
#taskkill /F /IM chrome.exe /T 

#Create log file. Here the RPA software will store the result of the macro run
$log = "log_" + $(get-date -f MM-dd-yyyy_HH_mm_ss) + ".txt" 
$path_log = $path_downloaddir + $log

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mfalazhar · June 26, 2021, 3:26pm

Mr @Plankton i want ask, i use powershell to automatically restart google chrome after x hours, but, the problem is powershell just open 1 browser, and i need to open 6 profile browser at the same time, it is possible? thank you

mfalazhar · June 26, 2021, 5:16pm

@Paper Im sorry i want to ask, how to open more than 1 browser with that powershell script? beacuse when i running the script, its work very good but just open 1 browser, how to open more than 1 browser / profile chrome?

mfalazhar · June 26, 2021, 5:22pm

Hi @Plankton i want to ask you how to automatically restart browser with powershell.
I’m already read other thread or problem in this forum about auto restart browser, and i found this

github.com

A9T9/RPA/blob/master/command-line/powershell/run one macro forever.ps1

###########################################################################
#This script shows how to run a macro "forever" 
# by checking on the command line return value
# and killing/restarting Chrome if needed
###########################################################################



function PlayAndWait ([string]$macro)
{
$timeout_seconds = 60 #max time in seconds allowed for macro to complete. Change this value if  your macros takes longer to run.
$path_downloaddir = "c:\test\" #Where the script finds the kantu log files => *THIS MUST BE THE BROWSER DOWNLOAD FOLDER*, as specified in the browser settings
$path_autorun_html = "c:/test/ui.vision.html" #autorun page exported from API setttings page.

#Optional: Kill Chrome instances (if any open)
#taskkill /F /IM chrome.exe /T 

#Create log file. Here the RPA software will store the result of the macro run
$log = "log_" + $(get-date -f MM-dd-yyyy_HH_mm_ss) + ".txt" 
$path_log = $path_downloaddir + $log

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what i want to ask is, when i run the script its work fine, very good, but its just open 1 browser, and how to open more 1 browser, because i want run 6 browser at the same time, its can?

newuserkantu · June 27, 2021, 5:17pm

If you use firefox portable you can run unlimited browser in same time, need only to have multiple folder with firefox.

For Chrome i do not use it, require excessive ram i do not like Chrome.