Glad it worked! Bet you were like...that's not my Netflix account...lol. Thanks for changing that by the way. I need to stop coding at like 10pm.
I think it would be cool to enable staying in trigger command from Alexa for a while instead of one command at a time and then you have to trigger again. I don't really know if that's possible, but it would fit really well here. You could say less and get more done.
Russ, or anyone interested seeing this discussion - Please see https://www.triggercmd.com/forum/topic/115/open-specific-netflix-movie-with-alexa if you're interested in using Alexa to open netflix movie as discussed above.
Requirements: Echo with "Trigger Command" Alexa Skill, TriggerCMD installed on desired computer, Nodejs - I recently upgraded to 8.9.3 - Just make sure you're not far behind on your installed Nodejs, I'm using Windows 10 - I believe you can get selenium-webdriver for MAC and LINUX.
LINK FOR REFERENCE: http://seleniumhq.github.io/selenium/docs/api/javascript/
INSTRUCTIONS
node C:\MAMP\htdocs\automation\node_modules\selenium-webdriver\example>node google_search.js
If your component was installed correctly this will open up your browser and do a google search. Then you know its working and you can use my code below to have Alexa open up a specific movie.
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/**
* @fileoverview An example WebDriver script.
*
* Before running this script, ensure that Mozilla's geckodriver is present on
* your system PATH: <https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases>
*
* Usage:
* // Default behavior
* node selenium-webdriver/example/google_search.js
*
* // Target Chrome locally; the chromedriver must be on your PATH
* SELENIUM_BROWSER=chrome node selenium-webdriver/example/google_search.js
*
* // Use a local copy of the standalone Selenium server
* SELENIUM_SERVER_JAR=/path/to/selenium-server-standalone.jar \
* node selenium-webdriver/example/google_search.js
*
* // Target a remote Selenium server
* SELENIUM_REMOTE_URL=http://www.example.com:4444/wd/hub \
* node selenium-webdriver/example/google_search.js
*/
const {Builder, By, Key, until} = require('..');
var driver = new Builder()
.forBrowser('firefox')
.build();
var command = "";
///GETTING COMMAND FROM AGRUMENTS
process.argv.map((value, index) => {
if(index > 2) {
return command = command + " " + value;
} else if( index === 2) {
return command = value;
}
});
// .then(_ => driver.wait(until.titleIs('webdriver - Google Search'), 1000))
driver.get('https://www.netflix.com/login')
.then(_ =>
driver.findElement(By.name('email')).sendKeys('netflixuser@gmail.com'))
.then(_ =>
driver.findElement(By.name('password')).sendKeys('netflixpassword'), Key.ENTER)
.then(_ =>
driver.sleep(2000))
.then(_ =>
driver.findElement(By.className('login-button')).click())
.then(_ =>
driver.sleep(1000))
.then(_ =>
driver.findElement(By.xpath('/html/body/div[1]/div/div/div[2]/div/div/ul/li[1]/div/a/div/div')).click())
.then(_ =>
driver.findElement(By.className('searchTab')).click())
.then(_ =>
driver.findElement(By.css('.searchInput > input:nth-child(2)')).sendKeys(command))
.then(_ =>
driver.sleep(3000))
.then(_ =>
driver.findElement(By.id('title-card-0-0')).click())
.then(_ =>
driver.sleep(2000))
.then(_ =>
driver.findElement(By.className('play')).click())
.then(_ =>
driver.sleep(2000))
.then(_ =>
driver.findElement(By.css('body')).click());
Here's mine.
C:\MAMP\htdocs\automation\node_modules\selenium-webdriver\example>node google_search.js boss baby
So, "boss baby" is the parameter that you are going to pass to "Alexa". Once you have the Alexa skill enabled and the script working just say the command you created. Such as: "Alexa open trigger command and movie with parameter boss baby"
I realize you cannot see my full command its just the same path as the google_search.js script above - C:\MAMP\htdocs\automation\node_modules\selenium-webdriver\example>node google_search.js
If you have any troubles with this let me know. I have noticed that there are times when the script fails because it says that an element on the page isn't there yet. You can increase the sleep time on the script. Like instead of 2 seconds (2000) change to three (3000). Now you can start building your own scripts. The driver class methods being used has helpful comments in the C:\MAMP\htdocs\automation\node_modules\selenium-webdriver\lib\webdriver.js file. I used this to learn how to change up the script to my needs (Netflix by specific movie). My kid loves it!
I split video in two to cut out my login/users page - but this is how it works for me.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_V-5zjNurB_a-DyaBgNE4CljzUBhhqLW/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1t82l-Y6Tb5JLhKpMElxP4YRD1Ta7Z7TL/view?usp=sharing
Id be glad to post some of my stuff in here. I'll do that soon.
Very glad to hear the parameters are working now with Alexa! Question though. Can you give me a good example for windows of getting the parameter and using it. currently I'm using vbsScript and starting that from my command.
Yeah I like the idea of making it simple and quick like that. I was just thinking of the possibility of adding multiple parameters which I think then you'd need to split the command up. It would be more back and forth, but you'd be able to do a lot that way. I'm very glad to hear that you've already thought of that, because in my opinion that will make this way more powerful.
I'm learning how to write batch scripts, so I did get stranger things to work, but I went the long route of having the script run a search for "stranger things" and running tabs and enter to select the first option.
If you were to add parameters and pair this with automation scripts for web we could get a whole lot done. Like I tested an automation script signing in to netflix and selecting a show and having javascript wait for elements to load on the page and clicking on them when expected elements load. Its pretty cool and exciting stuff. Bravo! 
I thnk it would be pretty useful to pass parameters from Alexa.
ME: "Alexa, open Trigger Command and run netflix with one parameter."
Alexa: Okay, what would you like your parameter to be?
ME: Stranger Things
Alexa: Okay, running Netflix trigger with Stranger Things parameter.
Couldn't we then try to find a way to open netflix, run a search and enter the movie? That would be pretty awesome! This is pretty cool by the way. I've really enjoyed playing around with it. I'm a web developer and about to dive into learning node.js myself.
Props to Bubba for the video! -
I'm kind of a rookie to cmd scripts - I'm a web developer.
I didn't see a command in this video so I thought I'd throw this in here in case there's someone like me.
start C:\scripts\spotifyChill.vbs - He didn't mention the command in the video. I set voice command to chill music and now I can just tell Alexa to start trigger command and run chill music on my pc - It works great! No need for Spotify premium to play my music using Alexa. I have my computer right next to Alexa in my living room and PC hooked to TV so "Trigger CMD" will come in very useful.