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

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707 points namukang | 1 comments | 17 Nov 21 15:16 UTC | HN request time: 0.455s | source
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Drblessing ◴[17 Nov 21 21:22 UTC] No.29258987[source]▶
This is amazing!

I'm excited to see if this will remain available long-term or websites will try to figure out ways to block it, and the limit to data scraping from one script, for example if a twitter account had 1 mil followers could it do all of them in day. I'm going to try it out!

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1. dkthehuman ◴[17 Nov 21 22:53 UTC] No.29259916[source]▶
One of the major benefits of Browserflow automating your normal desktop browser (instead of creating a separate browser instance) is that it's indistinguishable from you using the site directly.

Of course, that doesn't stop websites from rate limiting you if you try to do too much too quickly. In general, I'd recommend being conservative and automating what you think a normal person would be capable of doing manually.