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10644 :: browser automation recommendation?

[2023-11-16T18:05:36+01:00]

mszs (orginal) [2023-11-16T18:05:36+01:00] view original

I'm still very new to Nim and currently have some tedious tasks on a web page (Moodle) that I'd like to automate. This would be an opportunity to learn some basic Nim. So, what is currently the most straightforward way to do browser automation? I've seen a few on GitHub including https://github.com/yglukhov/webdriver. Would that be the recommended one?

Isofruit (orginal) [2023-11-16T18:07:08+01:00] view original

It is what runs the test-suite of the nim-forum. I can confirm it works in the limited capacity that I contributed to the nim-forum when I ported it to 2.0

juancarlospaco (orginal) [2023-11-16T19:15:18+01:00] view original

I think the hard part is making the webdriver itself run properly, then its basically like an HTTP API, even a curl would do.

alexeypetrushin (orginal) [2023-11-17T17:11:07+01:00] view original

Browser automation is fragile, it's better to use mature libraries.

I would compiled Nim to JS and use Puppeteer.