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  • coscripter-extension

    CoScripter Firefox browser extension

    • Prior art:

    "CoScripter" (2007) <https://blog.mozilla.org/labs/2007/09/coscripter/>

    "IBM Automates Firefox With CoScripter" (2007) <https://www.informationweek.com/software/ibm-automates-firef...>

    "Your personal assistant on the Web" (2010) <https://www.ibm.com/blogs/research/2010/10/your-personal-ass...>

    "Koala: Capture, Share, Automate, Personalize Business Processes on the Web" (2007) <https://ofb.net/~tlau/research/papers/koala-chi07.pdf>

    "CoScripter: Sharing ‘How-to’ Knowledge in the Enterprise" (2007) <https://ofb.net/~tlau/research/papers/leshed-group07.pdf>

    "Here’s What I Did: Sharing and Reusing Web Activity with ActionShot" (2010) <https://ofb.net/~tlau/research/papers/p723-li.pdf>

    Demo: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKIex_XAxWw>

    Source code (bitrotted, of course): <https://github.com/jeffnichols-ibm/coscripter-extension>

  • ja3

    JA3 is a standard for creating SSL client fingerprints in an easy to produce and shareable way.

    • Not only that - enterprise bot management protections will run behavioral identification (e.g. how your mouse moves —> AI -> bot yes/no), TCP stack fingerprinting (and other devices if available e.g. gyroscope), TLS ClientHello fingerprinting (e.g. see https://github.com/salesforce/ja3), etc. Lots of very unique info in the Scraping Enthusiasts discord where lots of pro scrapers hang out.

  • SurveyJS

    Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

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  • template-ts-tampermonkey

    Discontinued 让油猴也能用上typescript

    • The easiest approach is be to use an extension like Tampermonkey, which can load (and reload) “scripts” from a web server. There are a few project templates on GitHub with Typescript+WebPack (e.g. https://github.com/xiaomingTang/template-ts-tampermonkey).

  • automa

    A browser extension for automating your browser by connecting blocks

    • Why should I pay for this if Automa is free open source and better?

    https://github.com/Kholid060/automa

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