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Re:Ask HN: What automation tools have you used to replace mu... by shostack on Monday February 17, 2020 @11:26AM (#22348752)
Can you attach it to an existing browser window/session that is already open? Ie. I navigate and authenticate to a site, run code, and it continues from there with what's on screen?
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Re:Ask HN: What automation tools have you used to replace mu... by lostintangent on Monday February 17, 2020 @11:50AM (#22348908)
Playwright allows you to connect to existing browser instances, but it currently requires you to get the “debug URL” of the browser instance first: https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/blob/v0.11.1/docs/ap....

I’d love to hear a bit more about the scenario you have in mind, since that might help inform some improvements we can make. Thanks!

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Re:Ask HN: What automation tools have you used to replace mu... by shostack on Monday February 17, 2020 @01:07PM (#22349354)
The issue I'm having with Selenium (well, Watir with Ruby) is booting up some automated scraping logic for a page that may be in my current session once I've done the whole authentication dance manually (so I don't have to focus on automating that piece initially).
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