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TA.Gui – A tool for non-developers and business users to automate web apps

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Re: TA.Gui – A tool for non-developers and business users to automate web apps

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Windows defenders reports a malware when trying to download the master branch. Now I will be forced to format my company laptop. Great! P.S: The reported virus is Trojan:Win32/Sprinsky.

it's look false positive. windows defender too lazy to check properly.

if you download javascript file have combinations of XMLHttpRequest or UNIX new line or web links, it will detected as malware or trojan.

Re: TA.Gui – A tool for non-developers and business users to automate web apps

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Windows defenders reports a malware when trying to download the master branch. Now I will be forced to format my company laptop. Great! P.S: The reported virus is Trojan:Win32/Sprinsky.

Why on earth would you format it if Windows Defender caught the "virus" (in this case a false positive) before you had a chance to run it? As long as you haven't run it (php in this case, so you'd have to have run them on a local web server), even if there were a virus, you could simply delete the file without opening/running it and you wouldn't have an issue.

I also have to know...if you think you have to format the laptop whenever a file you haven't run is detected to be a virus, how many hours have you spent doing this useless exercise?

Re: TA.Gui – A tool for non-developers and business users to automate web apps

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Nice tool and well done. But the overall idea very much looks like the popular iMacros for Chrome or iMacros for Firefox browser addons - Chrome version here: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/imacros-for-chrome...

And for non-developers the screenshot-driven Kantu Web Automation Browser (Chromium-based, https://kantu.io ) is much easier to use than any tool that relies on Xpath and CSS Selectors.

Re: TA.Gui – A tool for non-developers and business users to automate web apps

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Windows defenders reports a malware when trying to download the master branch. Now I will be forced to format my company laptop. Great! P.S: The reported virus is Trojan:Win32/Sprinsky.

Hi register, I'm sorry for the trouble of false-positive. I have closed the issue raised with the following remark. Thanks to tinodotim, downandout, swznd and all for helping to isolate the cause!

https://github.com/tebelorg/TA.Gui/issues/8

Issue and cause found by Hacker News users - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13674669

Resurrectio_LICENSE.GPL is cloned from Resurrectio project. I will temporarily remove this file and contact Eric Brehault. I would still like to use the original copy of his license instead of adding a new general GPLv2.

Re: TA.Gui – A tool for non-developers and business users to automate web apps

#18

It reminds me of QuicKeys. I'm going to have to look into this.

Thanks LordKano, feel free to feedback any bugs or suggestions to support@tebel.org or through the GitHub repo issues page. I welcome suggestions to make it better!

Re: TA.Gui – A tool for non-developers and business users to automate web apps

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Other options : Dejaclick Selenium IDE

Thanks supremesaboteur for your feedback, I have not used Dejaclick before. For Selenium IDE, I got the impression that I cannot have access to conditions, loops, datatables, object repositories, invoking by API/scheduling, make outgoing API calls, etc. Without writing code.

I thought it was a rather limited tool (the Selenium IDE part), so usually test automation teams write their own frameworks in their preferred programming language to drive Selenium WebDriver (which of course is mainstream), then write code to do the test automation.

I'm basically attempting to bring that sort of framework out of the picture, to let users being able to do the same kind of complex stuff without writing code. They can still use JavaScript code in their automation flow if they want.

Re: TA.Gui – A tool for non-developers and business users to automate web apps

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Recently i have started working with NightmareJs to scrape few sites. There also you have to mention the flow as in click here , grab this data n all. Wondering how is it different from that . Also can we use it to scrape data from a site and save to database?

Hi uberneo, thanks for your feedback. TA.Gui is based on CasperJS (with PhantomJS as underlying browser in invisible mode or SlimerJS+Firefox in visible mode).

One of the main aims of TA.Gui is converting almost natural language into working JavaScript code to run automation. Of course, it supports JavaScript directly within the automation flow for developers to still retain their full expressive ability.

I haven't used NightmareJS before to comment on the difference between it and CasperJS. But yes, TA.Gui can be used to scrape data from a site and outputs to text files or screen. Current beta version (v0.6.0) does not support writing directly to database, however a script (shell, PHP, etc) should be able to directly read the output text files into a database.

If you are already familiar with NightmareJS, using TA.Gui would probably be a breeze for you. You might have a try to see and I appreciate feedback on gaps to support@tebel.org or through the GitHub repo issues page :)

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