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📣 thedangler

Visual website automation options Axiom, Selenium, or other?


Hello, I'm wondering the best way to do website automation where I have to be logged in. I do not want to give my credentials to a service if I don't have to.

The companies website API only lets me do so much and there is a little manual step I have to do with browser. I'm looking to tie this all together.

What would be the best solutions for this: I see Axiom as an option but i'm unsure about credentials and how I would trigger it to run the chrome plug-in once a webhook has been processed.

Or would I use Selenium some how record what I do and have it mimic that but change input data and it can spit out code I can run on a local server?

Basically I have to manually assign a user to a project assign permissions and change the project name.

I'm going to be doing it manually but the process might become overwhelming if I get too many requests.

Thank you for the advice in advance.


  👤 rl1987 Accepted Answer ✓
MS Playwright has a little tool that generates some starter code for you as it follows what you do on the browser.

👤 mkranjec
Second Playwright. Autogenerated code is a mess, still better than nothing though.