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2y ago

Beachpatrol: A CLI tool to replace and automate your everyday web browser (Wayland support)

GitHub - sebastiancarlos/beachpatrol: A CLI tool meant to replace and automate your everyday web browser.

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sebastiancarlos @lemmy.sdf.org

1y ago

Beachpatrol: A CLI tool to replace and automate your everyday web browser (Now with Firefox support)

github.com /sebastiancarlos/beachpatrol

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What can you automate with Beachpatrol? The sky is the limit:
Check your email.
Login to your bank account.
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Oh hell no!
- Yeah... I'd rather spend some time doing those manually and not risk losing money (or even worse) because of a mere couple seconds less on the internet.
- It's really cool, when automation tools create more problems than they actually solve.
your everyday web browser
I only see chromium referenced, where's firefox?
- "Currently only Chromium is supported. Other Chromium-based browsers and Firefox support to be added soon."
Hmmm automated web scraping 🤑🤔🤔
This is really cool! Do you have a rough timeline for Firefox support?
- It should be pretty soon. I've got it working already, but I need to test it more and figure out how Firefox profiles work with Playwright.
  If you want you can just clone it and replace "chromium" with "firefox". It should just work, and it shouldn't take too long to figure out the rest.
  
  Let us know when it's ready, I'd like to try that.
Dang, I really dislike npm shit, but I might check this out
It would be cool to have it also just navigate the web for you as you. Basically would start polluting all the trackers and if enough people used it their databases would be so overwhelmed. Seems like a good tool from a privacy stand point would get hard to really pinpoint you for advertising or whatevertheir other purposes are for tracking.

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