Technologies · draft 14 of 95, not in the published book · outline v1.0.0, 2018, frozen · 82 words · the 2018 file · read and review
Browser Automation
In 2018 this was an outline: a title and "Topics to cover and ideas". It was never in the published book, and it is shown exactly as it was left. The second edition fills it from the articles the map names.
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Topics to cover and ideas
- code the browser
- write electron (or selenium) scripts
- write code on Inspector window (Dev Tools)
- amazing feeling when you actually automate something as simple as an login screen
- most companies have not solved how to do this effectively (for example to automatically test for site performance and security issues/problems)
- understand the power of automating the browser
- ability to create an API from any website (worse case scenario is to automate the browser)
- understand how bots work
Answered since, on the newsroom: A minimal viable browser, How to run synthetic users on your own site. The map row.