WinAutomation provides you with a vast collection of actions and tools, that can help you automate any repetitive task. The different types of jobs that you will end up creating, is only limited by your imagination:
- Schedule a job to be executed once per week and automatically clear your desktop from recently created files and folders.
- Retrieve specific information from a website. For example, you can download every image that is contained in a page, extract every link or email address to a text file and remove html tags, thus converting an html file to simple text.
- Monitor specific folders in your computer, and when a file is created, deleted or modified in one of these folders, send an email with details to yourself, as a notification.
- Create hotkeys to perform various boring tasks: automate entering your personal information in websites (e.g. username, password, email etc), shorten a selected URL and store the new, shortened URL in the clipboard, assign a series of keystrokes and mouse clicks to a single hotkey.
- Retrieve data from text and Excel files and store it in a database, or use it as input to fill-in forms online
- Schedule the download of a file or a folder through FTP. You can choose whether the file/folder will be automatically downloaded, based on the last time that it was modified. For example, you can prevent files/folders that are more than 2 days old to be downloaded.
If you want more ideas on what you can accomplish with winautomation have a look at the following list. This list is by no means a complete index of all WinAutomation's features but it can give you an idea about daily tasks that can be automated through our software:
PC Maintenance:
- Automatically clear temporary folders based on a schedule
- Compress, add a timestamp, archive and then clear oftenly used work folders
- Automate and schedule antivirus scans and backup procedures
- Delete zero-sized files from your machine
Hotkey Registration:
- Assign multiple keystrokes/actions to a simple hotkey
- Generate and use custom-sized passwords with a hotkey
- Fill forms with your private data without having to type it
- Assign words that will be automatically replaced with a predefined text (e.g. replace url with http://www.example.com/ )
- Convert keyboard hotkeys to mouse clicks or series of mouse clicks
Desktop Related Tasks:
- Mass rename files in several ways:
- Change their extension
- Add date or time to their filename
- Make their names sequential by adding a number to the filename etc
- Retrieve text from any number of images through Office's OCR engine
- Synchronize your mp3 device with a local folder that contains music
Retrieve Data from Web Pages (data mining):
- Save all links, images, emails, RSS feeds that are contained in a list of URLs.
- Remove all html tags from a web-page
- Retrieve specific information from news sites, forums etc (e.g. Google News, Yahoo answers etc)
- Scrape content from relevant sites in your niche
Web Marketing:
- Send scheduled newsletters to a list of email addresses
- Create multiple text files from a single template (mail merge)
- Extract useful information from e-stores (e.g. best selling products' lists)
- Schedule custom search engine querying and log the results for further process
- Retrieve demand and supply of specific keywords (e.g. number of webpages returned per keyword)
- Setup your blog (e.g. Wordpress, Blogger etc), install a script (e.g. Rapid Action Profits, Prosper202 etc), setup CMS (Drupal, Joomla etc)
- Check for available domain names and blogspot names
- Schedule custom search engine querying and save the results for further process
- Social bookmarking (e.g. Digg, Facebook, Google etc)
- Automate Article Submission (e.g. EzineArticles, GoArticles etc)
- Post an ad on Craiglist
Data Manipulation:
- Read data from an Excel file and use it as input in any application
- Execute a SQL statement to any kind of database and store the results in an Excel file
FTP:
- Download a file that has been updated from FTP
- Download, compress and archive FTP folder
Network Automation:
- Monitor network folders and log what files are created/changed/deleted
- Update files that are stored locally if a new version of the file is created in a network share
Web Services:
- Automate Twitter Status Updating
- Automatically shorten a selected URL and store the result in clipboard
Text Handling:
- Search for a specific string in every file of a folder
- Automatically correct large portions of text to match the "Sentence Case"
- Replace a string that meets specific criteria
Macro Recording:
- Launch third party applications and automate data entry in their inputs
- Launch any browser (e.g. Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome etc) and navigate to a specific URL
Advanced Tasks:
- Run VBScripts and retrieve their output in variables
- Schedule and automate the execution of any application with a command line interface
- Capture any graphic that appears on the screen and wait for it to appear or click on it
- Full support of regular expressions for more powerful text manipulation
Also, by acquiring a professional license you can compile your jobs to executables that allow you to:
- Create polls, surveys and quizzes for your friends/students/employees
- Make sure that specific processes and services are running in every pc of your network
- Verify that specific registry entries exist in every machine and if not, create them automatically
- Replace batch files with the more secure executables
and much more...
Notice, that as soon as you purchase a professional license, you can create as many .exe files as you like and run them in any number of pcs. You can also distribute or even sell them to an unlimited number of users.