Refresh Chrome tab with PowerShell

Question

_{Thursday, May 17, 2018 10:44 AM}

There is an awesome post about refreshing an IE tab with PowerShell:

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/a9645a53-b4db-43f2-8cbb-1382b175903d/refresh-ie-with-power-shell?forum=winserverpowershell

"Question: hi ,

how to refresh an IE tab using power shell ? [I want to refresh only the tab that contains my application url , not other IE windows or tabs ]

thx"

"Answer: $YouAppLink = "http://app.site.com/qwerty"

$ieSet = (New-Object -ComObject Shell.Application).Windows() |  ? {$_.LocationUrl -like "$YouAppLink"}
$ieSet.Refresh()"

Can I please have help getting this to refresh a Chrome tab with the url instead of IE?

All replies (4)

_{Thursday, May 17, 2018 10:49 AM}

Can't be done.

\(ツ)_/

_{Thursday, May 17, 2018 10:51 AM}

Run this to see why:

(New-Object -ComObject Shell.Application).Windows() |select Name,LocationUrl

Chrome is not a COM server.

\(ツ)_/

_{Thursday, May 17, 2018 12:50 PM}

There's something called Selenium and a powershell module to control it.  I haven't used it.  Excuse me while I make this link clickable and make blank lines with control-enter.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19364189/instantiate-chrome-object-in-powershell

_{Saturday, May 19, 2018 8:31 AM}

There's something called Selenium and a powershell module to control it.  I haven't used it.  Excuse me while I make this link clickable and make blank lines with control-enter.

Appreciate the effort. Interesting idea. Unfortunately my admin isn't too happy with the downloading of .jars. But thanks for posting.