> Periodically check for changes I remember a Firefox extension that notified me with the diffs of changed pages. I don't remember exactly what I was using it for. I think something related to CVEs for some keywords. Then the service I was using shut down and I lost tracks of that extension.
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#22> Periodically check for changes I remember a Firefox extension that notified me with the diffs of changed pages. I don't remember exactly what I was using it for. I think something related to CVEs for some keywords. Then the service I was using shut down and I lost tracks of that extension.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/distill-web-m...
Re: Show HN: I created a browser automation tool
#23There's a chrome extension that records all your steps and then generates a puppeteer/playwright script for you. Then you can just edit bits of that script and run it. This is my go-to method presently. I feel like you could incorporate some of those features into this and eliminate some of the manual entry of css selectors.
Oh, interesting. What is the name of that extension?
Re: Show HN: I created a browser automation tool
#24There's a chrome extension that records all your steps and then generates a puppeteer/playwright script for you. Then you can just edit bits of that script and run it. This is my go-to method presently. I feel like you could incorporate some of those features into this and eliminate some of the manual entry of css selectors.
Oh, interesting. What is the name of that extension?
Re: Show HN: I created a browser automation tool
#25There's a chrome extension that records all your steps and then generates a puppeteer/playwright script for you. Then you can just edit bits of that script and run it. This is my go-to method presently. I feel like you could incorporate some of those features into this and eliminate some of the manual entry of css selectors.
I just started using a Selenium IDE + selenium-side-runner for headless automation. Is puppeteer or Selenium a more widely supported tool?
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
Oh, interesting. What is the name of that extension?
You can do it in the chrome browser tools! There's a record section. Note if you're doing this for automation testing it's going to be pretty flakey and you're better off following best practices and using custom testing selectors instead :)
Re: Show HN: I created a browser automation tool
#27There's a chrome extension that records all your steps and then generates a puppeteer/playwright script for you. Then you can just edit bits of that script and run it. This is my go-to method presently. I feel like you could incorporate some of those features into this and eliminate some of the manual entry of css selectors.
Oh, interesting. What is the name of that extension?
Re: Show HN: I created a browser automation tool
#28There's a chrome extension that records all your steps and then generates a puppeteer/playwright script for you. Then you can just edit bits of that script and run it. This is my go-to method presently. I feel like you could incorporate some of those features into this and eliminate some of the manual entry of css selectors.