Start (or reuse) an Edge IE-mode session and navigate to a URL (default IE_DEFAULT_URL). Keeps the session alive for later calls.

Navigate the current IE-mode session to a new URL.

Session state as JSON: active/alive, title, url, window_handles, and the interaction mode, session identity/directory, and owned browser PIDs/profile.

List ALL Edge IE-mode windows and IEDriver processes open on the machine, flagging which one THIS session owns (mine=true) and which are orphans. Use to see leftover browsers from prior/other runs.

Terminate only IE-mode Edge / IEDriver processes recorded for crashed ie-mcp sessions. Never kills browsers owned by live agents or unknown processes.

List the frames/iframes of the current page (index, name, id, src). Use the index or name with the 'frame' arg of other tools.

Get visible text of the page or of a specific frame.

Get the HTML source of the page or of a specific frame.

Click an element (auto-waits). 'by' is id/css/xpath/name/link_text/tag/class. action: click (default) | double | right.

Type text into an input/textarea element (auto-waits).

Set a file by sending a local file path.

Handle a JS dialog (alert/confirm/prompt). action: accept (default) | dismiss | text | sendkeys (with text). Note: OS-level IE modals may be unreachable.

Execute JavaScript in the page or a frame and return the result.

Capture a PNG screenshot of the IE-mode window, or of a single element if by/value are given (returned as an image; optionally saved to save_path).

Poll until a specific substring appears in the page text (for slow async content). Scans all frames unless 'frame' is given; returns which frame matched + a preview. For 'is the page loaded?' use ie_wait_ready instead.

Wait until the page finishes loading: every same-origin frame's document.readyState is 'complete' AND the DOM stops changing for a few polls (content settled). Handles slow async/frameset content. Use THIS to know content is ready, then search the data separately. Do NOT wait for a specific value to detect load — if it's absent you can't tell 'still loading' from 'not present'. Returns loaded=true/false with frame count, text length, element count and a content sample.

Select an in a dropdown, by label (visible text), option_value, or index. Provide exactly one of label/option_value/index.

Press a key on an element (if by/value given) or the active element. Key names: Enter, Tab, Escape, Space, Backspace, Delete, Up/Down/Left/Right, Home, End, PageUp, PageDown, F5 — or a literal character.

Navigate back in browser history.

Navigate forward in browser history.

Hover the mouse over an element (for menus/tooltips).

Resize the browser window (useful for consistent screenshots).

Read an element's text (default), its 'value', or a named attribute/property. Set attr=text|value|.

Wait for an element (by/value) to appear — or, with gone=true, to disappear. Use before acting on slow-rendering content.

Scroll: bring an element into view (by/value), scroll page/container to top|bottom (to=...), or by pixels (dx/dy). Needed for virtualized grids.

Extract a tabular grid as structured rows. Auto-picks the table with the most multi-cell rows (or pass table_id). Returns headers + rows (header-keyed dicts when the header row is detected/given). App-agnostic.

Sleep for N seconds (last resort; prefer ie_wait_ready / ie_wait_text).

Close the IE-mode session and quit the browser.