Headless Recorder
Dev tools
browser test recorder
SHOW HN2020
224points
23comments
#226of 3,028 in 2020
Top 8%of 2020 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
3 positive, 8 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 1 critical, out of 12 comments about the project. Thread score +0.10.
Idea: 3 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Well-maintained open source browser automation tool is rare
From 1 comment
Looks amazing, it is generally very difficult to find well-maintained, open source web scraping/robot process automation tools. Thank you for building this and congratulations on…
ampdepolymerase on HN
Useful project in a crowded space
From 2 comments
Hey, this is cool we have a similar free project at https://www.testim.io/playwright-recorder/ - good job! Happy to see players in this space.
inglor on HNHad a similar idea to this glad I can just use what you have created instead
darepublic on HN
Objections
Recorder relies on CSS class selectors that break with dynamic class names
From 1 comment
So it looks like this keys off of class selectors. Anyone know of a solution for cases where you have dynamic selector names? Frameworks like next.js (using styled-jsx) add…
rgbrgb on HN
Requests
Firefox support
From 1 comment
Wait, there's still work to do: a Firefox version.
amelius on HN
Questions
Can scripts use existing logins and cookies?
From 2 comments
I’m not familiar with puppeteer. Does this tool let you script a browser with all your logins and cookies intact (to access content behind a login)?
throwawaysea on HNYes it lets you script chrome, usually headless, but not necessarily. I don't know whether it can use existing cookies in an open browser, but I'd assume so. I use it with…
monkeycantype on HN
Why rename from Puppeteer Recorder?
From 1 comment
I'd be curious as to why change from an easily remembered and branded name to a generic one? Edit: not bashing, genuinely curious
Raphmedia on HN
Alternatives named
Testim Playwright recorder
From 1 comment
Hey, this is cool we have a similar free project at https://www.testim.io/playwright-recorder/ - good job! Happy to see players in this space.
inglor on HN
Taiko
From 1 comment
We use https://taiko.dev/ to do E2E testing, and it's basically that. It's very far from perfect but dramatically cuts down needing to use selectors or IDs
thesandlord on HN
SikuliX
From 1 comment
SikuliX [1] perhaps? It's an image-based automation tool. [1] https://github.com/RaiMan/SikuliX1
arthurfm on HN