web automation (Re: General discussion related to Moneydance)

Wow, I've never heard of Sikuli or Selenium, both are quite neat.  I'd heard of Fake, as I've used their first product,  Fluid (http://fluidapp.com/).  It's a nifty little utility to help you create an OS X "app" which is really just a Webkit browser instance.  This can be very helpful for scripting.

So, Steve, big picture question.  With apps like Selenium or Fake, why would we need custom JS injected into pages?  Couldn't we get all the automation we need with either of those to download OFX files (and PDFs, and whatever else)?


ROB LUND // "I solder the body electric"

On May 25, 2011, at 10:00 AM, [email protected] wrote:

> From: Steve Lessard <[email protected]>
> Date: May 23, 2011 11:13:15 AM MDT
> To: General discussion related to Moneydance <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [moneydance] importing bank statements
> Reply-To: General discussion related to Moneydance <[email protected]>
> 
> 
> Thanks for referring me to those two automation tools. I took a look at 
> both of these excellent tools. I found that Sikuli would not work well 
> for our needs because it would be prone to failure if the user did 
> anything with the computer while it is working. Selenium looks like it 
> might meet our needs and is worthy of further investigation.
> 
> If anyone else knows of an automation tool that allows injecting 
> JavaScript into a web page please share it with me.
> 
> -SteveL