PowerShell get running explorer process and their documents

Question

How can i access document property of already running explorer processes. i am using following line of code to get process.

$ie2 = Get-Process |where {$.mainWindowTItle -eq "Windowtitletext"} | where {$.ID -ne $ieParentProcessNumber}

now i want to do some processing on this processes like $ie2.Document etc.

Answer 1

If you know that you'll receive 1 object:

(Get-Process explorer).CPU

If you want to know what are the available properties:

Get-Process explorer | Get-Member

If you have more than one object in your result set (e.g. Get-Process returning mutiple processes mathing search criteria):

Get-Process | Where-Object { $_.Handles -ge 200 } | Foreach-Object { $_.CPU }

Answer 2

It seems like you are trying to access the Document (i.e a webpage's data) directly from the process. This is not possible using the get-process.

You would need to create a instance of a IE com object for example or use the System.Net.WebClient if you want to just read data from a web site. Post more info about what you are trying to do and we can possibly help you out better

Answer 3

You can attach to the ie window:

$app = New-Object -ComObject shell.application
$popup = $app.Windows() | where {$_.LocationName -like "*foo*"}
$popup.document