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Ask HN: Does this web automation tool exist?

2 pointsby db1over 1 year ago
Hi HN, I&#x27;m looking to automate some web workflows. Here&#x27;s an example of a what the tool would do.<p>1. Open a new tab, navigate to my builds page. Select the latest successful build, and click on the link. Copy the url to the latest build artifact.<p>2. Open a new tab, go to my deploy tool. Paste in the artifact link from the earlier step. Fill in some other values in a form, and hit submit.<p>I know the above is possible with something like Selenium web driver, but I&#x27;m looking for something with a GUI, that would quickly let me put together such workflows.<p>If something like the above doesn&#x27;t exist, I would like to build it, but I do want to make sure that I&#x27;m not missing anything obvious first. I&#x27;m thinking of implementing a chrome extension that would use Web APIs to run the steps above. The GUI for building the workflows would live separately.

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Nathanbaover 1 year ago
You can use playwright with the inspector open, it has a record button. Playwright is very nice, haven&#x27;t tried the recording feature though <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;user-images.githubusercontent.com&#x2F;13063165&#x2F;212924587-4b84e5f6-b147-40e9-8c75-d7b9ab6b7ca1.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;user-images.githubusercontent.com&#x2F;13063165&#x2F;212924587...</a>
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not_your_vaseover 1 year ago
Also Selenium has an &quot;ide&quot; in the form of an extension that can be used to record browser sessions, replay them, and modify - with a GUI. (At least last time I checked a few years ago, they had at least for firefox)