Is there a COM interface for Edge Chromium similar to that provided by Internet Explorer?

Question

Internet Explorer provides a COM interface that allows full control of an IE instance and navigating the DOM of a loaded web page. Does Edge Chromium provide something similar?

I currently use PowerShell scripts to open IE, browse to a number of pages and navigate the DOM on each page to extract data from elements on each page, so wanted to do the same using Ede Chromium.

Answer 1

You cannot automate the Edge Chromium browser like you are automating the IE browser using PowerShell script.

To automate the Edge Chromium browser, I suggest trying to use the Microsoft web driver .

Selenium web driver supports many developing languages, you can choose the desired language.

Here are steps to automate the Edge Chromium browser using a web driver in C# language.

1. Download the correct Microsoft WebDriver version for your build of Microsoft Edge.

2. Create a C# Console application in the Visual Studio.

3. Install the Selenium.webDriver and Microsoft.Edge.SeleniumTools packages via Nuget package manager.

4. Add the code below and modify the paths in the code.

Code:

static void Main(string[] args)
{
            var options = new EdgeOptions();
            options.UseChromium = true;
            options.BinaryLocation = @"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge\Application\msedge.exe";
           
            var driver = new Microsoft.Edge.SeleniumTools.EdgeDriver(@"--<Edge web driver path>--", options);
            driver.Navigate().GoToUrl("--<URL of the site>--");
}

Further, you can modify the code example as per your own requirements.