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Reputation: 6306

Automating Firefox or Google Chrome

I have seen information about using AutoHotkey with Internet Explorer for form filling through COM interface.

Is there any possibility to do this using Firefox or Chrome?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1135

Answers (2)

Mister Robato
Mister Robato

Reputation: 196

Try Puppeteer

Puppeteer is a Node.js library which provides a high-level API to control Chrome/Chromium over the DevTools Protocol. Puppeteer runs in headless mode by default, but can be configured to run in full ("headful") Chrome/Chromium.

What can it do?

Most things that you can do manually in the browser can be done using Puppeteer! Here are a few examples to get you started:

  • Generate screenshots and PDFs of pages.

  • Crawl a SPA (Single-Page Application) and generate pre-rendered content (i.e. "SSR" (Server-Side Rendering)).

  • Automate form submission, UI testing, keyboard input, etc.

  • Create an automated testing environment using the latest JavaScript and browser features.

  • Capture a timeline trace of your site to help diagnose performance issues.

  • Test Chrome Extensions.

Upvotes: 1

Matt
Matt

Reputation: 7160

The question is tagged AutoIt, so here's an AutoIt answer:

AutoIt does have a UDF for firefox automation that would do it. It's not a standard UDF and relies on a third party program.

Chrome has no interface for automation. In theory you could write a program that used webkit directly, and maybe even set the user agent to look like chrome. In practice I haven't seen it done, and it really is overkill when IE is a much easier choice for automation.

Upvotes: 1

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