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Re: Automately - A scalable web automation API for developers

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What's an automation script in this case?

A simple script written in JavaScript. You write code using our automation API interacting with websites making clicks, anything you would normally do as a normal person interacting with a web browser except using JavaScript to do it! And a lot more!

Hi, I guess you can make your messaging more powerful if you add in an example automation code to show an use case.

It looks like a cool idea. All the best.

Re: Automately - A scalable web automation API for developers

#13
@mailarchis had a great point :)

Example automation script:

println("Opening Google");

browser.openPage("http://www.google.com");

browser.waitForSelector("[name=q]", 2);

browser.getElement("[name=q]").sendKeys("Hello World");

println(browser.getTitle());

It's not much of an example we are accepting early access requests though :) You will definitely get more details on automation scripts.

Re: Automately - A scalable web automation API for developers

#15

Please look at selenium webdriver And the webdriver w3c draft API

Selenium of course does provide web automation technology but here at Automately we are trying to do more than that. We are trying to put web automation in the hands of developers as fast as possible and inspire them to create new things.
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