This one is a shameless plug (I created the app) while it's still in early stages of development, the core features are working, I use https://github.com/rmpr/atbswp to automate demos, whenever I have to present a demo in front of people, I just record it before and replay, but the app can have many use cases beside this. You're only limited by your imagination.
Ask HN: What automation tools have you used to replace mundane activities?
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Yup. I did this with a local Android app, that tells you the gps location of a public bus. I sniffed the http packets, found the requests i needed and made a python script that pinged me at slack when my bus was 5 minutes from my bus stop. Useful when I worked at night.
I'm familiar with the web dev tools, but no clue about mobile. Can you point me in the right direction on how to do the same? Were you using an android emulator on desktop or there's some way to easily do this on android?
I use mitmproxy or charles proxy with an android emulator, with an older version of Android so it allows for a man-in-the middle, without being finicky about certificates.
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Haha.. love it, I'm so glad it helped. I had the same experience a couple years ago after spending months selenium-ing our ERP software.
finally got to it last evening. 20 minutes of playing with json libraries, and I've got a ~10 line script that runs in under a second and produces output that would have taken probably a minute to run in selenium and occasionally been flaky too. /starts looking at other APIs to use! Thanks!
Awesome! enjoy the rabbit hole :D
Re: Ask HN: What automation tools have you used to replace mundane activities?
#234I use YNAB ( https://youneedabudget.com/ ), which requires inputting every one of your transactions by hand or importing them from your bank. The downside of the import is it takes a few days for the transaction to show up and you need to give YNAB your bank username/password, which I'm not comfortable with. I wrote this https://github.com/buzzlawless/ynab-live-import to import credit card transactions instantly with…
> you need to give YNAB your bank username/password
Why don't they have oauth for this?