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Automa: A Chrome extension for automating the browser
- monkeydust 5y agoWhat's the most interesting or complicated flow someone has built using this? Just curious.
- c54 5y agoOne use case that got me interested in browser automation is the task of creating a new twitter account which follows everyone followed by an existing twitter account. Aka automating clicking and scrolling the same button down a page. Something to try out
- rajishx 5y agojira stuff, so boring to create a new issue in jira
- dalex00 5y agoWhat is exactly the use case i am Jira admin and curious to know to offer it my team's..
- bbkane 5y agoTry go-jira for this. You can use YAML to template out your tickets and `jira create` to create them. I wrote how I do this at https://www.bbkane.com/blog/career-engineering-by-tracking-work-faster-with-command-line-jira/ https://www.bbkane.com/blog/career-engineering-by-tracking-w...
- stevenhuang 5y agoExtracting my data from sites like my bank/broker. Currently I'm doing it manually whenever I happen to login. After copying the relevant html, I need to fix the formatting and other transforms before the entry can be added to my sheets. I'm thinking with this I can get it to instantly select the right fields and prepare the data, put it in my clipboard, then I will be able to just paste in my sheet saving some time.
- eastendguy 5y agoSounds similar to Browserflow, which was on HN a few days ago.
- stevenhuang 5y agoYup, difference being this one is open source. Now it's even more exciting to try out :)
- jedimind 5y agoIt's even open-source [0], makes me feel better since I'm quite paranoid when it comes to chrome extensions. [0] https://github.com/kholid060/automa https://github.com/kholid060/automa
- schleck8 5y agoAnd rightfully so
- Ginden 5y agoBrowser extension stores should be more transparent about open source and licensing. And probably they should collaborate with CI providers - eg. make contract with GitHub to sign artifacts with "these files were built using following pipeline from commit XYZ in repository JohnSmith/UserBase".
- randunel 5y agoHow can you verify that your extension actually runs the code that's in the open source repository? Extensions' integrity can be signed and verified against something that was also authored by the creator, but what verifies that the code in the linked repository is the same one, not a different one?
- forgotmypw17 5y agoI think you can build it yourself and install that?
- robbedpeter 5y agoChecksums are super useful, too - if you build the project yourself, you can get the checksum, and if it's different than the one in the store, you can ask questions. A web of trust style checksum confirmation network would be invaluable for browser extensions. Building that into a browser's security model would be great - an extension has to be validated with a minimum score or it's disabled unless manually activated.
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- nepalvibes 5y agoLove the fact that it is open-source and free to use. I can see it being useful for a lot of people who don't want to spend money but know they need to do some form of simple automation using their browser.
- schleck8 5y agoThis is super cool. The Google search demo automation even types the letters one by one like a real user
- stevenicr 5y agoanyone know if this, or something similar could take a list of urls - like an exported bookmarks or other table - and do something similar to what: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/video-downloader-profession/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/video-downloa... does.. and do it automatically? I've been trying to find a way to hand over a list of urls and set to download only 2 videos at a time per domain.. then after one is finishes wait a random X seconds and then get the next in the list. Sounds like it should be easy to put something like this together, just not sure what tools would be most suited for such a thing in this day and age.
- vord1080 5y agoDoes this support Firefox?