Sacha Chua - tag - imacros https://sachachua.com/blog/tag/imacros/feed/index.xml Emacs, sketches, and life Mon, 06 Jul 2026 16:20:27 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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