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Ask HN: Any local agents to help repetitive browser tasks?

18 points pcdoodle | 3 comments | 29 Sep 25 18:15 UTC | HN request time: 0.457s | source

Been spending a lot of time just buying and printing labels through an e-commerce platform and it got me wondering: is there anything to run on a local PC that could automate this?
1. nicbou ◴[29 Sep 25 18:51 UTC] No.45417350[source]▶
Playwright is a great tool for this. There is a helper for writing automations. It's commonly used for automated testing but it's good for controlling a browser with Python scripts in general.
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2. darkvertex ◴[29 Sep 25 20:38 UTC] No.45418483[source]▶
Playwright is great. Take a look at Stagehand, it's an AI layer built on top of Playwright: https://www.stagehand.dev (It can run locally.)
3. busymom0 ◴[29 Sep 25 21:07 UTC] No.45418767[source]▶
If one owns a Mac and knows swift or objective c, they can just use WKWebView with user scripts too.