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

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707 points namukang | 4 comments | 17 Nov 21 15:16 UTC | HN request time: 0.862s | source
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tyingq ◴[17 Nov 21 18:09 UTC] No.29256582[source]▶
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.

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1. dkthehuman ◴[17 Nov 21 18:11 UTC] No.29256607[source]▶
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!

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2. tyingq ◴[17 Nov 21 18:20 UTC] No.29256748[source]▶
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.
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3. mritchie712 ◴[17 Nov 21 18:57 UTC] No.29257302[source]▶
What type of app did you have in mind?
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4. fragmede ◴[17 Nov 21 19:44 UTC] No.29257947{3}[source]▶
automation/screenshotting of a bespoke internal ticketing system (aka not-Jira), but without needing to have my laptop on.