Ask HN: Does this web automation tool exist?

2 points by db1 2 years ago | 3 comments

Hi HN, I'm looking to automate some web workflows. Here's an example of a what the tool would do.

1. Open a new tab, navigate to my builds page. Select the latest successful build, and click on the link. Copy the url to the latest build artifact.

2. Open a new tab, go to my deploy tool. Paste in the artifact link from the earlier step. Fill in some other values in a form, and hit submit.

I know the above is possible with something like Selenium web driver, but I'm looking for something with a GUI, that would quickly let me put together such workflows.

If something like the above doesn't exist, I would like to build it, but I do want to make sure that I'm not missing anything obvious first. I'm thinking of implementing a chrome extension that would use Web APIs to run the steps above. The GUI for building the workflows would live separately.

Nathanba 2 years ago |

You can use playwright with the inspector open, it has a record button. Playwright is very nice, haven't tried the recording feature though https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/13063165/212924587...

db1 2 years ago | |

Nice, I'm going to look into playwright, looks promising.

I've seen a couple of automated test frameworks. I'm not looking to test thou, I'm looking at way I can quickly automate my daily work. There's a healthy overlap between what test frameworks offer and what I want, so that's probably my best starting point.

not_your_vase 2 years ago |

Also Selenium has an "ide" in the form of an extension that can be used to record browser sessions, replay them, and modify - with a GUI. (At least last time I checked a few years ago, they had at least for firefox)