I've got a couple of things I've used browser automation tools for:
• I want to automate (or at least semi-automate) downloading bank statements. I've got ~14 accounts (checking, savings, credit card, IRA, investment, HSA) across 7 financial institutions.
It's tedious to go download statements from all of them manually.
• I want to save stories from FanFiction.net (FFN) for offline reading. FFN's terms allow automation as long as it doesn't operate faster than a human [1].
[1] From their TOS:
> You agree not to use or launch any automated system, including without limitation, "robots," "spiders," or "offline readers," that accesses the Service in a manner that sends more request messages to the FanFiction.Net servers in a given period of time than a human can reasonably produce in the same period by using a conventional on-line web browser.
• I want to automate (or at least semi-automate) downloading bank statements. I've got ~14 accounts (checking, savings, credit card, IRA, investment, HSA) across 7 financial institutions.
It's tedious to go download statements from all of them manually.
• I want to save stories from FanFiction.net (FFN) for offline reading. FFN's terms allow automation as long as it doesn't operate faster than a human [1].
[1] From their TOS:
> You agree not to use or launch any automated system, including without limitation, "robots," "spiders," or "offline readers," that accesses the Service in a manner that sends more request messages to the FanFiction.Net servers in a given period of time than a human can reasonably produce in the same period by using a conventional on-line web browser.