How to manipulate DOM in ubuntu command line without actually rendering the page on the GUI?
I've written a small JS snippet which clicks some buttons in the DOM of a certain target website in a loop.
To run this snippet, I open the target website in firefox. Then I paste this JS snippet in the console and let it do its job. PFA a sample snippet below.
Now the problem is that I want to automate this whole process to avoid actually opening firefox everyday. I would just like to write a cron to do this daily and everything should happen in background. I need to deploy this on a cloud linux VM without a GUI.
Any ideas about how I should proceed?
(I already know that I can use the website's backend API, thereby bypassing the entire DOM manipulation. But I would like to explore other options.)
P.S.: Sample of a code that I enter into the firefox's developer tools console:
func = setInterval(function () {
// Some button that I want to click.
document.evaluate("/html/body/div[1]", document, null, XPathResult.FIRST_ORDERED_NODE_TYPE, null).singleNodeValue.click();
// TODO: A break condition (or not)
}, 6000);
linux firefox cron javascript firefox-developer-tools
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I've written a small JS snippet which clicks some buttons in the DOM of a certain target website in a loop.
To run this snippet, I open the target website in firefox. Then I paste this JS snippet in the console and let it do its job. PFA a sample snippet below.
Now the problem is that I want to automate this whole process to avoid actually opening firefox everyday. I would just like to write a cron to do this daily and everything should happen in background. I need to deploy this on a cloud linux VM without a GUI.
Any ideas about how I should proceed?
(I already know that I can use the website's backend API, thereby bypassing the entire DOM manipulation. But I would like to explore other options.)
P.S.: Sample of a code that I enter into the firefox's developer tools console:
func = setInterval(function () {
// Some button that I want to click.
document.evaluate("/html/body/div[1]", document, null, XPathResult.FIRST_ORDERED_NODE_TYPE, null).singleNodeValue.click();
// TODO: A break condition (or not)
}, 6000);
linux firefox cron javascript firefox-developer-tools
asked Dec 27 '18 at 8:53
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I've written a small JS snippet which clicks some buttons in the DOM of a certain target website in a loop.
To run this snippet, I open the target website in firefox. Then I paste this JS snippet in the console and let it do its job. PFA a sample snippet below.
Now the problem is that I want to automate this whole process to avoid actually opening firefox everyday. I would just like to write a cron to do this daily and everything should happen in background. I need to deploy this on a cloud linux VM without a GUI.
Any ideas about how I should proceed?
(I already know that I can use the website's backend API, thereby bypassing the entire DOM manipulation. But I would like to explore other options.)
P.S.: Sample of a code that I enter into the firefox's developer tools console:
func = setInterval(function () {
// Some button that I want to click.
document.evaluate("/html/body/div[1]", document, null, XPathResult.FIRST_ORDERED_NODE_TYPE, null).singleNodeValue.click();
// TODO: A break condition (or not)
}, 6000);
linux firefox cron javascript firefox-developer-tools
asked Dec 27 '18 at 8:53
Trevor TrackTrevor Track
31
I've written a small JS snippet which clicks some buttons in the DOM of a certain target website in a loop.
To run this snippet, I open the target website in firefox. Then I paste this JS snippet in the console and let it do its job. PFA a sample snippet below.
Now the problem is that I want to automate this whole process to avoid actually opening firefox everyday. I would just like to write a cron to do this daily and everything should happen in background. I need to deploy this on a cloud linux VM without a GUI.
Any ideas about how I should proceed?
(I already know that I can use the website's backend API, thereby bypassing the entire DOM manipulation. But I would like to explore other options.)
P.S.: Sample of a code that I enter into the firefox's developer tools console:
func = setInterval(function () {
// Some button that I want to click.
document.evaluate("/html/body/div[1]", document, null, XPathResult.FIRST_ORDERED_NODE_TYPE, null).singleNodeValue.click();
// TODO: A break condition (or not)
}, 6000);
linux firefox cron javascript firefox-developer-tools
linux firefox cron javascript firefox-developer-tools
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I would advise you to abandon what you have been doing so far, and learn to use Selenium.
Selenium is pretty much industry standard, when we are testing web apps, and allows you to automate (script) browser interaction.
Selenium automates browsers. That's it! What you do with that power is
entirely up to you. Primarily, it is for automating web applications
for testing purposes, but is certainly not limited to just that.
Boring web-based administration tasks can (and should!) be automated
as well.
Selenium has the support of some of the largest browser vendors who
have taken (or are taking) steps to make Selenium a native part of
their browser. It is also the core technology in countless other
browser automation tools, APIs and frameworks.
answered Dec 27 '18 at 9:17
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I would advise you to abandon what you have been doing so far, and learn to use Selenium.
Selenium is pretty much industry standard, when we are testing web apps, and allows you to automate (script) browser interaction.
Selenium automates browsers. That's it! What you do with that power is
entirely up to you. Primarily, it is for automating web applications
for testing purposes, but is certainly not limited to just that.
Boring web-based administration tasks can (and should!) be automated
as well.
Selenium has the support of some of the largest browser vendors who
have taken (or are taking) steps to make Selenium a native part of
their browser. It is also the core technology in countless other
browser automation tools, APIs and frameworks.
answered Dec 27 '18 at 9:17
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I would advise you to abandon what you have been doing so far, and learn to use Selenium.
Selenium is pretty much industry standard, when we are testing web apps, and allows you to automate (script) browser interaction.
Selenium automates browsers. That's it! What you do with that power is
entirely up to you. Primarily, it is for automating web applications
for testing purposes, but is certainly not limited to just that.
Boring web-based administration tasks can (and should!) be automated
as well.
Selenium has the support of some of the largest browser vendors who
have taken (or are taking) steps to make Selenium a native part of
their browser. It is also the core technology in countless other
browser automation tools, APIs and frameworks.
answered Dec 27 '18 at 9:17
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I would advise you to abandon what you have been doing so far, and learn to use Selenium.
Selenium is pretty much industry standard, when we are testing web apps, and allows you to automate (script) browser interaction.
Selenium automates browsers. That's it! What you do with that power is
entirely up to you. Primarily, it is for automating web applications
for testing purposes, but is certainly not limited to just that.
Boring web-based administration tasks can (and should!) be automated
as well.
Selenium has the support of some of the largest browser vendors who
have taken (or are taking) steps to make Selenium a native part of
their browser. It is also the core technology in countless other
browser automation tools, APIs and frameworks.
answered Dec 27 '18 at 9:17
MawgMawg
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I would advise you to abandon what you have been doing so far, and learn to use Selenium.
Selenium is pretty much industry standard, when we are testing web apps, and allows you to automate (script) browser interaction.
Selenium automates browsers. That's it! What you do with that power is
entirely up to you. Primarily, it is for automating web applications
for testing purposes, but is certainly not limited to just that.
Boring web-based administration tasks can (and should!) be automated
as well.
Selenium has the support of some of the largest browser vendors who
have taken (or are taking) steps to make Selenium a native part of
their browser. It is also the core technology in countless other
browser automation tools, APIs and frameworks.
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