Excel VBA - auto-populate a form

Question

I have a small Macro taking me a to a website on Chrome using a shell command, but I'm hoping to chain it to another that populates the username and password on the site. Is this possible? My code so far:

Sub Logintest2()

  Dim chromePath As String

  chromePath = """C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe"""

  Shell (chromePath & " -url http://www.google.com")

End Sub

Answer 1

I found a post on Reddit that says this is much easier using Internet Explorer since Excel/VBA has some built in interop. However, if you're anything like me you abhor IE.

The same Reddit post suggested a third party plug-in called Selenium Basic . I used this answer to download and install it.

The following code successfully opened Google in Chrome and set the text of the search box to "This is a test".

Sub Test()
    Dim bot As New WebDriver
    
    bot.Start "chrome", "https://www.google.com"
    bot.Get "/"
    
    bot.FindElementByName("q").SendKeys "This is a test"
    Stop

End Sub

I used DevTools (F12) to explore the web content and find that the search box has name="q" .

Good luck!