HTML Testing & URL Verification tool with AutoHotKey and Excel

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Working in Internet Marketing I’m frequently involved with reviewing new and active web pages.   When I started the process was manual and quite time consuming so I wrote a script to automate much of it.  This video demonstrates it in action.  It requires you to navigate in IE (yes, I know…) and uses Microsoft COM to rip all the URLs by web scraping with AutoHotkey from the active page and dumps them into a spreadsheet for URL verification.  It also pulls things like the title of the page, # of words on the page, most popular words,  Values for name and ID elements as well as the actual URL and outerHTML.

The script also allows you to choose your overall area which is great because there is probably a template that your company uses (and you’ll probably want to exclude items that are part of site navigation, not unique to that particular page.

Remove duplicates from CSV files in a flash with an AutoHotKey script

Remove-DuplicatesIn email marketing I am frequently having to remove duplicates.   I typically used Excel for this but I did it so frequently I built a small script to automate the process.

The program requires a CSV file and utilizes Microsoft’s Component Object Model to open Excel and examine the headers for a field named “email”.  Once it finds it it removes duplicate email addresses and saves them as a new file in the same folder with the naming showing how many rows are present.   This greatly reduces the amount of work needed to do the job.
This should ease the removal of duplicates from CSV files.

Remove duplicates demo video

Use DropBox to keep the same desktop on multiple computers

Use DropBox to have one desktop on multiple computersI work / use a total of 5 different computers however, by using DropBox, I have one desktop on multiple computers.  This saves me a ton of time trying to make sure I keep my files stored in the same place.  By moving your desktop under your DropBox folder, you can easily keep them synced.

You can also create toolbars using the same approach.  Especially if you have toolbars linked to folders that are under your DropBox account.

Video demonstrating one desktop on multiple computers