I wish there was an easy way to send commands to the console of a browser.
That would be all I need to satisfy all my browser automation tasks.
Without installing and learning any frameworks.
Say there was a linux command 'SendToChromium' that would do that for Chromium. Then to navigate to some page one could simply do this:
SendToChromium location.href="/somepage.html"
SendToChromium should return the output of the command. So to get the html of the current page, one would simply do:
SendToChromium document.body.innerHTML > theBody.html
Ideally the browser would listen for this type of command on a local port. So instead of needing a binary 'SendToChromium' one could simply start Chromium in listening mode:
chromium --listen 12345
And then talk to it via http:
curl 127.0.0.1:12345/execute?command=location.href="/somepage.html"
That would be all I need to satisfy all my browser automation tasks.
Without installing and learning any frameworks.
Say there was a linux command 'SendToChromium' that would do that for Chromium. Then to navigate to some page one could simply do this:
SendToChromium location.href="/somepage.html"
SendToChromium should return the output of the command. So to get the html of the current page, one would simply do:
SendToChromium document.body.innerHTML > theBody.html
Ideally the browser would listen for this type of command on a local port. So instead of needing a binary 'SendToChromium' one could simply start Chromium in listening mode:
chromium --listen 12345
And then talk to it via http:
curl 127.0.0.1:12345/execute?command=location.href="/somepage.html"