Sacha Chua - tag - chrome https://sachachua.com/blog/tag/chrome/feed/index.xml Emacs, sketches, and life Tue, 14 Jul 2026 18:22:03 GMT en-US daily 1 11ty Automating bulk web stuff with iMacros https://sachachua.com/blog/2013/12/automating-bulk-web-stuff-with-imacros/ Tue, 17 Dec 2013 01:19:00 GMT geek https://sachachua.com/blog/?p=26537 I found myself needing to download a whole bunch of JSON data from a server that had a weird authentication thing that Chrome could deal with but wget/curl/Ruby couldn’t. Since my Firefox was on the fritz, I couldn’t use Selenium IDE or the Selenium Webdriver. iMacros to the rescue! (Chrome, Firefox)

2013-11-21 Geek notes - automating bulk web stuff with iMacros

That plus lots of keyboard macros and text manipulation in Emacs, plus a little parsing and regexp substitution in Ruby, plus more Emacs munging got me the data I wanted. Hooray for bubblegum and string scripting!

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]]> Dogear and Delicious: Cross-posting your enterprise bookmarks (xpost) https://sachachua.com/blog/2010/01/dogear-and-delicious-cross-posting-your-enterprise-bookmarks-xpost/ Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:38:17 GMT ibm work https://sachachua.com/blog/?p=7007 I love sharing my bookmarks. Tagging helps me find things again, and other people tell me they occasionally find useful websites in my collection. Here's a bookmarklet that makes it easy for me to share on our internal Lotus Connections Dogear bookmarking service at work as well as on the del.icio.us bookmarking service outside the firewall. In order to avoid bookmarking internal sites publicly, I check the domain name for the presence of ibm.com. This results in false positives on the external IBM.com domain, but that's okay. It works most of the time.

To use, drag “tag this” to your bookmark bar.

tag this

I've modified the Lotus Connections Dogear script so that it wouldn't show a lot of pop-up warnings on Chrome, which is my default browser.

Enjoy!

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