• Intro to AutoHotkey HotStrings with AutoHotkey Intermediate AutoHotkey GUIs are Easy with AutoHotkey Intro to DOS & AutoHotkey AutoHotkey FAQ AutoHotkey FAQ
Home Office Automation AutoHotKey Archive by category "COM"

Category: COM

COM (Microsoft’s Component Object Model)
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms694363(v=vs.85).aspx

AutoHotkey Webinar- 6/2021 Helping Users- API calls, ACC library & more!

AutoHotkey webinarThis AutoHotkey webinar was pretty amazing!
Video Hour 1: Helping others: Snagit, ACC library, Controls
Video Hour 2: GUIs, PID verse hwn ID, & more

Script Highlight:  Fiddler Everywhere Ripper / API Syntax writer

Download Fiddler Everywhere Syntax writer

We also discussed Webservice APIs.  Our AHK Webinar on APIs is a great place to start

You also might want to download our API Syntax writer

Download API Syntax Writer

We discussed the ACC library in this ahk webinar and demonstrated its usage in this AHK Webinar

When we were working through how to best solve Snaggit issue, I mentioned the 17 ways to automate windows  as well as AutomateMyTask

AutoHotkey Webinar- CloudAHK / CloudAHK in a bottle is an AMAZING tool to launch in 2020

webnar 300x200

CloudAHKJune 2020 marks our 48th  AutoHotkey Webinar!

CloudAHK

AutoHotkey Webinar 08/2018 Hour 1-Helping work through scripts
AutoHotkey Webinar 08/2018 Hour 2-GeekDude explaining his work on CloudAHK / CloudAHK in a bottle

In Hour 2 GeekDude also explains how he was able to “pack up” all of the resources in

Podcasts

061  Hierarchy of Competence

062  Updating / Fixing Automate my Task

063  GUI RPA software & Computer Knowledge in the workplace

Udemy Courses

Alerts / Update newsletter from the-Automator

  • What I’ve automated
  • Cool scripts from forum / Facebook / Reddit, etc.
  • Podcast that week
  • Time-saving tip (not AutoHotkey related)

Subscribe to my alerts and be entered into chance to win 1 of 10  Intermediate AutoHotkey course giveaway!  The drawing will be held on June 31st

Script Highlight: Push to GIST

xmlHTTPRequest vs. WinHTTPRequest- What killer advantages does the xmlRequest have?

xmlHTTPRequest vs. WinHTTPRequestIn this video I walk through both the xmlHTTPRequest and the WinHTTPRequest and I compare the xmlHTTPRequest vs. WinHTTPRequest.  As I mention in the video, Jackie Sztuk and I have a great  AutoHotkey webinar on Intro to API calls.  I also have several examples on my API page.

I also mention using Fiddler to monitor the browser traffic and grab your cookies / headers.

xmlHTTPRequest vs. WinHTTPRequest tutorial


Here’s the syntax I used for the WinHTTPRequest example

WinHTTPRequest syntax

And here’s the corresponding two XML API calls I demonstrated in the video

xmlHTTPRequest example using Msxml2.XMLHTTP COM object

Here’s the example connecting to the IE page and sending the API request with the xmlHTTPRequest()

API Call with AutoHotkey to pull WordPress Statistics

I stumbled upon something I had worked on years ago to pull stats from WordPress and decided to have a little fun. In this script I show how you can perform API calls with AutoHotkey to extract your stats from WordPress.
Make sure you get our API syntax writer to help you write your code!

Download API Syntax Writer

API Call with AutoHotkey to pull WordPress Statistics

API Call with AutoHotkey to pull WordPress Statistics