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

Too bad headless chrome seems uninterested in supporting browser extensions..."wontfix"

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=706008

Otherwise, you could make a pretty neat self-hosted "cloud" of this nice looking scraper extension.

I built Browserflow Cloud for that purpose ;)

It was a lot of work translating the extension code to work with headless browsers, but it means you can deploy your flows to the cloud and have it run automatically!

Yes, sure. Just that some use cases, like internal applications that aren't exposed to the internet, or dev instances of those that are, would be difficult.

What type of app did you have in mind?

automation/screenshotting of a bespoke internal ticketing system (aka not-Jira), but without needing to have my laptop on.

Recently a `--headless=chrome` flag was added to run headless mode using actual chrome browser code, which means extensions are now supported!

Sounds promising, thanks for sharing! "--headless=chrome" isn't google searchable, so I'm still looking for details.

Isn't the "chrome" value for "headless" parameter ignored? Maybe he simply meant the --headless switch (since Chrome 59) https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/04/headless-c...

EDIT: --headless is under kHeadless https://sourcegraph.com/search?q=context:global+repo:chromiu...

Oh, then it isn't helpful news. Headless does not support extensions.

I mean the CLI flag. I suppose it's called a switch. And yes, it does support extensions if you do --headless=chrome