Email Response Automation with Confirm Button in Web Browser

[britechguy]

Hello All,

Without getting into all the nitty gritty, several years ago one of my clients who is blind and who does document translation reached out to me to help him automate responding to job offer email messages "instantly." Those messages had (and still have, as the original script is still chugging along) a standard subject line and always contained a standard link that needed to be activated to snag the job.

He's now got a situation that's very similar, but with an additional wrinkle: Activating the acceptance link opens a webpage with a Confirm button that must be activated. Since these job offers often come in during what are normal sleeping hours, this makes it pretty much impossible to manually confirm in time to actually claim that job.

What I'm trying to figure out is whether there's any easy way to add the part that would push that Confirm button to complete the process without human intervention.

Any ideas/thoughts?

 

[phaZed]

Have you used Power Automate before? You can script it to search for items/text/OCR on a webpage and create complex logic/automations.

 

[britechguy]

Have you used Power Automate before?

No. This particular area is entirely new. I taught myself the VBA scripting I do know when creating the functionality to scan an email message for specific content and, if found, to open a URL that was contained within behind the scenes. But no interaction with the resulting webpage was needed. It was one of those "click it to open and it's done" things.