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How to connect current edge using pywinauto and input url?

I want to control current MS Edge and visit a url, say, https://edition.cnn.com/.

Here is the code:

import pywinauto
import psutil

ids = [p.info for p in psutil.process_iter(attrs=['pid', 'name']) if 'MicrosoftEdge' in p.info['name']]

app = pywinauto.Application().connect(process=ids[0]['pid'])

Is the above correct?

How to input the url?

Thank you.

Solution

  • The only way I could quickly find is using Desktop object:

    from pywinauto import Desktop

d = Desktop(backend='uia')
main_window = d.window(title_re='.*- Microsoft Edge', control_type="Window")
#main_window.dump_tree() # print long output with control identifiers

# after some experiments I could find this is correct edit box
address_edit = main_window.child_window(auto_id="addressEditBox", control_type="Edit")
address_edit.set_edit_text('www.google.com')

# could not find another way to start loading the page yet
address_edit.type_keys('{ENTER}')