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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?

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Re: Automa: A Chrome extension for automating the browser

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post #18

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.

untested but something like

    #!/bin/bash
    for line in url_list; do
        youtube-dl '$line'
        sleep `echo $((1 + $RANDOM % 60))`
    done;
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