Show HN: I made a Chrome extension that can automate any website

Re:Show HN: I made a Chrome extension that can automate any ... by toss1 on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @03:37PM (#29258518)

Excellent work; I started the demo with usual jaded attitude, but then - WOW - nice - I'll have good uses for that!

Can you drive actions from a spreadsheet or table? The workflow I'm thinking of is first do a run to gather data, next offline filter or select desired items from that data set, then finally use the processed data set to drive a series of actions on the selected items.

Also, any chance there'll be a Firefox version?

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Re:Show HN: I made a Chrome extension that can automate any ... by dkthehuman on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @03:47PM (#29258625)

You definitely can drive actions from a spreadsheet — it's one of the most common usage patterns.

Here's a demo showing it in action: https://docs.browserflow.app/tutorials/tutorial-scrape-a-lis...

(The demo shows scraping each URL but you can perform arbitrary actions for each row of the sheet.)

As for Firefox, it's unfortunately not currently possible: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29256938

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Re:Show HN: I made a Chrome extension that can automate any ... by toss1 on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @06:01PM (#29259990)

Thank you - looks really useful!

Interesting about Firefox vs Chrome API differences...

BTW, those are very nice demos too - clear and concise.

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