Robula+: an algorithm to generate robust XPath-based locators

Re:Robula+: an algorithm to generate robust XPath-based loca... by WalterGR on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @09:14PM (#24056275)

Is there a name for the concept of automatically generating (potentially with machine learning?) selectors?

I feel like I’ve seen similar projects come across HN, but I’m at a loss for what to search for.

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Re:Robula+: an algorithm to generate robust XPath-based loca... by onli on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @05:46AM (#24058913)

It's not that easy to reuse those because projects often differ in what they need (do you really want unique selectors for one single element?). But there are a couple of CSS selector generators, maybe you are referring to something like https://github.com/fczbkk/css-selector-generator or https://github.com/antonmedv/finder?

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Re:Robula+: an algorithm to generate robust XPath-based loca... by benibela on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @05:02PM (#24065561)

I made a greasemonkey script for this purpose. Create XPath, CSS or pattern matching. Unfortunately it stopped working when Firefox got its new API. But here is a video of it: https://youtu.be/PUrBJ6wOXvE?t=50

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Re:Robula+: an algorithm to generate robust XPath-based loca... by onli on Thursday August 06, 2020 @04:33PM (#24075171)

A very structured and guided approach/interface you built there. I can see why it does not work anymore with the new extension API, it's a complete interface. Nice work!

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Re:Robula+: an algorithm to generate robust XPath-based loca... by SomewhatLikely on Thursday August 13, 2020 @01:18AM (#24140155)

"wrapper induction" is one term that gets used.

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