PowerShell Open Close Browser Randomly

Question

How Do I Open and close chrome browser randomly in an infinite loop basically I need a script to open 3 URLs on randomly the whole night.

$URLs = @(
'http://site.tld/url1'
'http://site.tld/url2'
'http://site.tld/url3'
)

$minSeconds = 10 * 60
$maxSeconds = 15 * 600

# Loop forever
while($true){
# Send requests to all 3 urls
$URLs |ForEach-Object {
Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $_
}

# Sleep for a random duration between 10 and 15 minutes
Start-Sleep -Seconds (Get-Random -Min $minSeconds -Max $maxSeconds)
}

Answer 1

Invoke-* does not open a browser. You use those to interact with web site info without the need for a browser. You'd want to use Start-Process, which will open the default browser. You can of course instead start Chrome.

$URLs = @(
'http://site.tld/url1'
'http://site.tld/url2'
'http://site.tld/url3'
)

$minSeconds = 10 * 60
$maxSeconds = 15 * 600

# Loop forever
while($true)
{
    # Send requests to all 3 urls
    $URLs | ForEach-Object {Start-Process $PSitem}

    # Sleep for a random duration between 10 and 15 minutes
    Start-Sleep -Seconds (Get-Random -Min $minSeconds -Max $maxSeconds)
}

After that sleep line, you need to add code to close the browser.

$URLs | 
ForEach-Object {Start-Process -FilePath chrome.exe -ArgumentList $PSitem}

Stop-Process -Name chrome -Force