Comments on: Web automation with Chickenfoot http://mrspeaker.webeisteddfod.com/2007/04/02/chickenfoot/ Questions, music, noise, and computer nerditry. Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:50:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5 by: Amy http://mrspeaker.webeisteddfod.com/2007/04/02/chickenfoot/#comment-33144 Mon, 02 Apr 2007 15:43:37 +1000 http://mrspeaker.webeisteddfod.com/2007/04/02/chickenfoot/#comment-33144 Copy-pasting is a thing of the past. I think you just freed me from minutes of work a day! Copy-pasting is a thing of the past. I think you just freed me from minutes of work a day!

]]> by: Brian Donovan http://mrspeaker.webeisteddfod.com/2007/04/02/chickenfoot/#comment-33150 Mon, 02 Apr 2007 17:53:58 +1000 http://mrspeaker.webeisteddfod.com/2007/04/02/chickenfoot/#comment-33150 I've been loving Chickenfoot too - subbed to the mailing lit for many months but I didn't actually use it for anything until last week, when I wrote an <a href="http://www.briandonovan.info/descriptors/2007/03/29/exporting-your-amazon-wishlist-book-titles-isbns-etc-with-chickenfoot/">Amazon wishlist scraper</a> Given a choice, I will always use XPath to get at the useful bits of web pages rather than DOM tree crawling or regexps and Chickenfoot's handling of XPath is pretty nice (very simple to use), except for the fact that you can currently only use it to get a handle on DOM elements and ranges, though <a href="http://www.briandonovan.info/descriptors/2007/03/23/xpath-in-chickenfoot-problems-with-attribute-value-location-steps/">going the last step to an attribute value or a text childNode</a> is pretty straightforward. You can still use Firefox's XPath implementation in your Chickenfoot scripts, of course. I’ve been loving Chickenfoot too - subbed to the mailing lit for many months but I didn’t actually use it for anything until last week, when I wrote an Amazon wishlist scraper

Given a choice, I will always use XPath to get at the useful bits of web pages rather than DOM tree crawling or regexps and Chickenfoot’s handling of XPath is pretty nice (very simple to use), except for the fact that you can currently only use it to get a handle on DOM elements and ranges, though going the last step to an attribute value or a text childNode is pretty straightforward.

You can still use Firefox’s XPath implementation in your Chickenfoot scripts, of course.

]]> by: Neil O'Hara http://mrspeaker.webeisteddfod.com/2007/04/02/chickenfoot/#comment-33286 Tue, 03 Apr 2007 19:15:25 +1000 http://mrspeaker.webeisteddfod.com/2007/04/02/chickenfoot/#comment-33286 Chickenfoot is fine but you should try iMacros from http://www.iopus.com/imacros/firefox/ I have used iMacros for some months now and found it extremely useful. Neil Chickenfoot is fine but you should try iMacros from
http://www.iopus.com/imacros/firefox/

I have used iMacros for some months now and found it extremely useful.

Neil

]]> by: Mr. Speaker http://mrspeaker.webeisteddfod.com/2007/04/02/chickenfoot/#comment-33290 Tue, 03 Apr 2007 20:02:21 +1000 http://mrspeaker.webeisteddfod.com/2007/04/02/chickenfoot/#comment-33290 Hmmm, that looks kinda interesting, but has things like "Purchase now!" and "Patents Pending" written all over it. And sheesh, don't call them "macros" - us web guys are just starting to pretend we are real programmers! p.s. I'm loving chickenfoot even more now that I've got the Greasemonkey include workin' away - it's sooooo made for script junkies like me! Hmmm, that looks kinda interesting, but has things like “Purchase now!” and “Patents Pending” written all over it. And sheesh, don’t call them “macros” - us web guys are just starting to pretend we are real programmers!

p.s. I’m loving chickenfoot even more now that I’ve got the Greasemonkey include workin’ away - it’s sooooo made for script junkies like me!

]]> by: HeavyWeightGeek http://mrspeaker.webeisteddfod.com/2007/04/02/chickenfoot/#comment-33478 Thu, 05 Apr 2007 09:19:00 +1000 http://mrspeaker.webeisteddfod.com/2007/04/02/chickenfoot/#comment-33478 Do you think some of the big player will start to scripting for it like they did greasemonkey? Is anyone else put off by over simplified scripting languages? Do you think some of the big player will start to scripting for it like they did greasemonkey?
Is anyone else put off by over simplified scripting languages?

]]> by: trung http://mrspeaker.webeisteddfod.com/2007/04/02/chickenfoot/#comment-36518 Sat, 28 Apr 2007 18:59:55 +1000 http://mrspeaker.webeisteddfod.com/2007/04/02/chickenfoot/#comment-36518 I've been using this tool. It's really nice. I’ve been using this tool. It’s really nice.

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