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cxr ◴[17 Nov 21 22:51 UTC] No.29259897[source]▶
Some prior art:

"CoScripter" (2007) <https://blog.mozilla.org/labs/2007/09/coscripter/>

"IBM Automates Firefox With CoScripter" (2007) <https://www.informationweek.com/software/ibm-automates-firef...>

"Your personal assistant on the Web" (2010) <https://www.ibm.com/blogs/research/2010/10/your-personal-ass...>

"Koala: Capture, Share, Automate, Personalize Business Processes on the Web" (2007) <https://ofb.net/~tlau/research/papers/koala-chi07.pdf>

"CoScripter: Sharing ‘How-to’ Knowledge in the Enterprise" (2007) <https://ofb.net/~tlau/research/papers/leshed-group07.pdf>

"Here’s What I Did: Sharing and Reusing Web Activity with ActionShot" (2010) <https://ofb.net/~tlau/research/papers/p723-li.pdf>

Demo: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKIex_XAxWw>

Source code (bitrotted, of course): <https://github.com/jeffnichols-ibm/coscripter-extension>

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glenneroo ◴[18 Nov 21 11:42 UTC] No.29264367[source]▶
What does bitrotted mean in this context?
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1. e12e ◴[18 Nov 21 12:48 UTC] No.29264813[source]▶
Abandoned - last commit in 2013. That's typically so long ago that at least one Api, dependency or similar will be broken.
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