使用 VB.NET 在 Firefox 浏览器中单击特定链接

Question

I am new to coding and just started learning VB.net (because of background of VB6)

Now I am writing a simple program in VB.net which

1. Opens google.com in Firefox browser.
2. Searches for some query eg "ABC"
3. Clicks on a perticular link (eg abc.com) in search results.

Now I have done part 1 and part 2 but I cant find a way to get a particlular link clicked.

This is what I have tried uptil now

Button1.Click
    Process.Start("C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe", "https://www.google.com/")
    Threading.Thread.Sleep(5000) 
    SendKeys.SendWait("ABC")
    Threading.Thread.Sleep(500) 
    SendKeys.SendWait("~")
    Threading.Thread.Sleep(5000) 

Now how do I programmatically click on a particular href (eg abc.com).

For some constraint I cannot use Webbrowser component for this program.

Any guidance will be appreciated.

Answer 1

I have recently been diving down this rabbit hole myself. I would suggest checking out: https://www.selenium.dev/selenium/docs/api/dotnet/ . There looks to be documentation for VB that could help. My application is written in C# so don't know if what I have written would have much crossover.

// This is example c# code for using selenium. 
using OpenQA.Selenium;
using OpenQA.Selenium.Firefox;
static void Main(string[] args)
{
IWebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
string url = "webpage.com";
driver.Navigate().GoToUrl(url);
Console.ReadLine();
driver.Quit();
}

Hope it helps.