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Automa: A Chrome extension for automating the browser

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Re: Automa: A Chrome extension for automating the browser

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It'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

How 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?

Re: Automa: A Chrome extension for automating the browser

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What's the most interesting or complicated flow someone has built using this? Just curious.

Extracting 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.

Re: Automa: A Chrome extension for automating the browser

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post #10

What's the most interesting or complicated flow someone has built using this? Just curious.

jira stuff, so boring to create a new issue in jira

What is exactly the use case i am Jira admin and curious to know to offer it my team's..

Re: Automa: A Chrome extension for automating the browser

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It'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

How 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?

I think you can build it yourself and install that?

Re: Automa: A Chrome extension for automating the browser

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post #10

What's the most interesting or complicated flow someone has built using this? Just curious.

jira stuff, so boring to create a new issue in jira

Try 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-w...

Re: Automa: A Chrome extension for automating the browser

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anyone 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-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.

Re: Automa: A Chrome extension for automating the browser

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anyone 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-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…

Sounds like python and Youtube-dl would be a good fit for this.

Re: Automa: A Chrome extension for automating the browser

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post #3

It'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

How 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?

Checksums 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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