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The idea here is that 1) Emacs has flexible means of automation (like keyboard macros), and 2) it also has a web browser, so 3) Emacs can be used for browser au
by nickdrozd 8y ago
The idea here is that 1) Emacs has flexible means of automation (like keyboard macros), and 2) it also has a web browser, so 3) Emacs can be used for browser automation. The conclusion seems trivial in retrospect, but I hadn't seen it discussed anywhere, so I thought the techniques involved would be worth recording.
- gkya 8y agoThanks a lot! I use Emacs and have some scraping projects (mainly converting some websites' announcements into RSS feeds), but have never thought of this either.
- stevenwoo 8y agoJust finding about eww was fun for me, I could probably tune browser settings/plugins to approximate it but it makes web browsing on sites I just want to read extremely quick to load no matter how much extraneous baggage is on the web site.