Yahoo Mail Shortcut using JScript

Introduction

This article shows how you can make a little script using JScript that automatically login to your Yahoo Mail account.

The operating principle is very simple:

1. Navigate to mail.yahoo.com
2. Wait for the browser until the page is completely loading
3. Search for username, password fields and submit button.
4. Username and password fields value are set with your account data. After that send a click message to the Sign-in button.

Source code

Replace "your_username_here" with your yahoo username and "your_password_here" with your account password.

var ie = new ActiveXObject("InternetExplorer.Application"); ie.Visible = true; //ie.FullScreen = true; ie.Navigate("http://mail.yahoo.com"); while(ie.Busy) WScript.Sleep(200); var doc = ie.Document; if(doc) { var body = doc.body; if(body) { var elems = body.getElementsByTagName("input"); if(elems) { for(var i=0;i<elems.length;i++) { if(elems[i].getAttribute('name') == "login") elems[i].value = "your_username_here"; if(elems[i].getAttribute('name') == "passwd") elems[i].value = "your_password_here"; if(elems[i].getAttribute('type') == "submit") { elems[i].click(); break; } } } } }

Save this source code in a .js file using notepad and save it to your desktop. Every time you need to check your e-mail address just click on this file.

License

This article, along with any associated source code and files, is licensed under The Intelliproject Open License (IPOL)

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