Opening browser on a variable page using vbscript

Question

I'm trying to write a bit of VBScript to open a browser on a specific webpage. Ultimately this webpage would be unique per script. At the moment I have the following code which works:

Dim objShell

objShell = CreateObject("Shell.Application")
objShell.ShellExecute("C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe", "www.google.ie", "", "", 1)

But I would like to get the following working:

Dim iURL As String
Dim objShell

iURL = "www.google.ie"

objShell = CreateObject("Shell.Application")
objShell.ShellExecute("C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe", iURL, "", "", 1)

Any ideas what it is I'm doing wrong? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

No As String as VBScript is not strongly type, you need a set when you create an instance of the COM object & no parens around the method call;

Dim iURL 
Dim objShell

iURL = "www.google.ie"

set objShell = CreateObject("Shell.Application")
objShell.ShellExecute "chrome.exe", iURL, "", "", 1

Or if chrome is the default

set objShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
objShell.run(iURL)

Answer 2

I found the easiest way is to do this:

set WshShell=WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
WshShell.run "chrome.exe"
WScript.sleep 400
WshShell.sendkeys "URL HERE"
WshShell.sendkeys "{ENTER}"

also just a fyi you can do this to close chrome:

WshShell.sendkeys "%{F4}"