SAMIE (Simple Automation Module for I.E.)

SAMIE is a fantastic tool for automating internet explorer, it is in the form of a plugin module for Perl that allows control of Internet Explorer through OLE. It's an open source development and it's free.

You can use SAMIE for all kinds of things, automating boring tasks, functional testing for webpages, grabbing data and information from webpages. It's an extremely flexible tool, especially when combined with the power of Perl and its pattern matching abilities. The only real downside is that there is no Graphical User Interface for producing scripts, which limits its use to those that can develop in Perl or wish to learn.

Requirements

• A windows PC, running Internet Explorer
• An installation of Active Perl

Links

• SAMIE
  The project page for SAMIE, you can download the latest version here.
• PAMIE
  A Python port of SAMIE, if you're more familiar with / prefer Python.