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Re:Automa: A Chrome extension for automating the browser by monkeydust on Sunday November 21, 2021 @12:23PM (#29297947)
What's the most interesting or complicated flow someone has built using this? Just curious.
Re:Automa: A Chrome extension for automating the browser by c54 on Sunday November 21, 2021 @03:18PM (#29299329)
One use case that got me interested in browser automation is the task of creating a new twitter account which follows everyone followed by an existing twitter account. Aka automating clicking and scrolling the same button down a page.

Something to try out

Re:Automa: A Chrome extension for automating the browser by stevenhuang on Sunday November 21, 2021 @04:35PM (#29299976)
Extracting my data from sites like my bank/broker. Currently I'm doing it manually whenever I happen to login. After copying the relevant html, I need to fix the formatting and other transforms before the entry can be added to my sheets.

I'm thinking with this I can get it to instantly select the right fields and prepare the data, put it in my clipboard, then I will be able to just paste in my sheet saving some time.

Re:Automa: A Chrome extension for automating the browser by rajishx on Sunday November 21, 2021 @03:40PM (#29299488)
jira stuff, so boring to create a new issue in jira
Re:Automa: A Chrome extension for automating the browser by bbkane on Sunday November 21, 2021 @05:34PM (#29300455)
Try go-jira for this. You can use YAML to template out your tickets and `jira create` to create them. I wrote how I do this at https://www.bbkane.com/blog/career-engineering-by-tracking-w...
Re:Automa: A Chrome extension for automating the browser by dalex00 on Sunday November 21, 2021 @04:42PM (#29300037)
What is exactly the use case i am Jira admin and curious to know to offer it my team's..