VBScript to detect Facebook IE window, press Like

Question

I tryed to make a script to detect the IE window that is opened on Facebook and hit the Like button. Let's say I have 10 IE opened. Only one of them is on a page on Facebook. I want my script to detect that IE window, click this button:

IE.Document.getElementById("pagesHeaderLikeButton")

(The above button is the Like button)

and close that IE window.

I tryed to get that IE window by:

For Each wnd In CreateObject("Shell.Application").Windows
        If InStr(1, wnd.FullName, "iexplore.exe", vbTextCompare) > 0 Then
           Set IE = wnd
           Exit For
        End If
Next

But this will only set my VBscript to the first opened IE and it will not find the Facebook window.

I tryed this:

Dim objInstances, item
Set objInstances = CreateObject("Shell.Application").windows
For Each item In objInstances
    If Item.Name Like "*Internet*" And Item.document.URL Like "*facebook.com*" Then
        IE.Document.getElementById("pagesHeaderLikeButton").Click
    End If
Next

But I get "Sub or function not defined"

Answer 1

For Each wnd In CreateObject("Shell.Application").Windows
        If InStr(wnd.Name,"Internet") Then
            if InStr(wnd.Document.URL,"facebook.com") Then
                Set IE2 = wnd
                Exit For
            End If
        End If
Next

So to press the button will be like this:

Set Butlike = IE2.Document.getElementsByTagName("button")
    For Each btn In Butlike
    If btn.type = "submit" Then btn.Click()
Next

Answer 2

Next code snippet could help:

Set shApp = CreateObject( "shell.application")
With shApp
  For Each wnd In .Windows
      If InStr(1, wnd.FullName, "iexplore.exe", vbTextCompare) > 0 Then
        If InStr(1, wnd.document.URL, "facebook.com", vbTextCompare) > 0 Then
          Wscript.Echo "THIS:"
        End If
        Wscript.Echo Left( wnd.document.URL, 70)
      End If
  Next
End With

Output example (with more facebook.com matches):

==>cscript D:\VB_scripts\SO\30717779a.vbs
http://www.msn.com/?ocid=iehp
THIS:
https://www.facebook.com/login.php?api_key=127760087237610&skip_api_lo
THIS:
https://www.facebook.com/literarnifestival1
THIS:
https://cs-cz.facebook.com/mgvsetin
http://www.bing.com/search?q=Xmaster+Official&qs=n&form=QBRE&pq=xmaste
http://www.bing.com/search?q=%22Xmaster+Official%22&qs=n&form=QBRE&pq=

==>    

Answer 3

The following code will search for open IE windows that have "facebook.com" in its URL and save them in a collection:

Dim getIE  As New Collection     
For Each Item In CreateObject("Shell.Application").Windows
            If Item.Name Like "*Internet*" And Item.document.URL Like "*facebook.com*" Then
                getIE.Add Item
            End If
Next

Then you can loop through the collection and do what you want with the IE items:

For Each itemIE In getIE
    itemIE.Document.getElementById("pagesHeaderLikeButton").Click ' For example
Next itemIE

Hope this does what you wanted! ;)