instantiate chrome object in powershell

Question

I have a powershell script which works just fine in IE however I need to also have it work in Chrome. $ie = new-object -com "InternetExplorer.Application" Works fine for IE. How do I instantiate the Chrome browser?

Answer 1

You can start a process by name and even pass it a parameter, like this:

Start-Process "chrome.exe" "www.google.com"

Answer 2

if you are fine with a 3rd party dll you could use Selenium which has also a Chromdriver, that gives you the same kind of control over Chrome as through InternetExplorer.Application COM

Selenium webpage

There is also a PowerShell wrapper for Selenium available on CodePlex

http://sepsx.codeplex.com/