Edge VB Script to load page and clear cache

Question

I am trying to figure out how to do a VB script to load a page on Edge and then clear the cache.

So far I can get the page to load but cannot find the cache part.

Set objShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
objShell.Run "msedge http://ceto/dhms/login.aspx"

Please advise

Answer 1

Hi @Gary Ray

You can achieve what you want using Seleniumbasic. Seleniumbasic is a Selenium based browser automation framework for VB.Net , VBA and VBScript. Before writing the code, there're some steps needing to be followed:

1. Download the latest version of SeleniumBasic v2.0.9.0 from this link and install it.
2. Download the corresponding version of Edge WebDriver from this link.
3. Find the path of SeleniumBasic which is C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\SeleniumBasic in my situation (it might also be in this path C:\Program Files\SeleniumBasic), copy the Edge WebDriver msedgedriver.exe to this path.
4. Rename msedgedriver.exe to edgedriver.exe.

The VBScript code is like below. You can first open Edge, then navigate to edge://settings/clearBrowserData and automate the browser to clear the cache:

Dim driver  
  
Set driver = CreateObject("Selenium.EdgeDriver")  
driver.Get "https://www.google.com"  
driver.Wait 5000  
driver.Get "edge://settings/clearBrowserData"  
driver.FindElementById("clear-now").Click  
driver.Wait 5000  
driver.Quit  

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