Show HN: Selenium IDE is dead; so I built a new one

  • Posted 8 hours ago by markjivko
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https://oglama.com/vs/selenium/
Ten years ago at my former job we abused Selenium. We used it to automate uploading and updating thousands of apps on Google Play, and it worked great! I say "abuse" because the tool was obviously meant for functional testing, not the kinds of flows we needed. Oh, and how we did abuse it with evals and such.

Fast-forward to today, and Selenium IDE is no longer supported on Google Chrome and the core project itself feels, for lack of a better word, dead.

So I built the web automation tool I wish existed a decade ago. Running on top of a finite-state machine, instead of a CSV-like linear list of actions. With a true IDE that has code formatting and linting. Issuing trusted events through Chrome DevTools Protocol (CDP) vs. WebDriver. Shareable modules, environment and global variables, a locally running large language model, exportable results, scheduled tasks, detailed logs, and much more.

I really hope you like it!

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