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Re:Ask HN: What automation tools have you used to replace mu... by beatthatflight on Monday February 17, 2020 @08:40PM (#22352696)
(Facepalm)

I read your post.

Paused.

Opened up debugger on the site I'm currently selenium-ising.

reloaded.

boom. there it is. The request, and beautiful json response.

So...so..so much simpler.

Thank you, my evening is sorted ;)

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Re:Ask HN: What automation tools have you used to replace mu... by dhruvkar on Monday February 17, 2020 @09:38PM (#22352979)
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.

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Re:Ask HN: What automation tools have you used to replace mu... by beatthatflight on Thursday February 20, 2020 @03:28PM (#22378275)
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!

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Re:Ask HN: What automation tools have you used to replace mu... by dhruvkar on Monday February 24, 2020 @12:13AM (#22401840)
Awesome! enjoy the rabbit hole :D
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