KGH S02 Introduction to iMacros
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This document provides an introduction to iMacros, which is a tool that can be used to automate tasks in a web browser without coding. It discusses building scripts with iMacros to automate common tasks like data extraction from web pages and testing across websites. It then demonstrates some examples of iMacros scripts, such as a mass following script for Twitter, an auto-view macro for LinkedIn using JavaScript, and scraping and following artist followers from SoundCloud. Finally, it discusses some limits of iMacros, such as being unable to relaunch macros indefinitely, and provides alternatives to iMacros like PhantomJS, CasperJS, and SpookyJS.
KGH S02 Introduction to iMacros
- 1. ACQUIRE LIQUIDITY BITCH INTRODUCTION TO IMACROS
- 2. THE TALK PLAN #1. What we are going to build & what is iMacros. #2. Let’s play with iMacros. :-) #3. Limits & alternatives.
- 4. WHAT ARE WE GOING TO BUILD?
- 5. #1. Automate most common tasks you are doing in your web browser (and you can use it without typing a single line of code). #2. Extract data from web pages and save results into your database, spreadsheet or any other application. #3. Automate functional, performance, and regression testing across any website. WHAT CAN YOU DO WITH IMACROS?
- 6. HOW TO INSTALL IMACROS? iMacros is available for Firefox, Chrome & Internet Explorer
- 7. AN OVERVIEW OF IMACROS INTERFACES
- 9. HACK #1 - TWITTER RECORD A SIMPLE MASS FOLLOWING SCRIPT
- 10. THE DIFFERENT RECORDING MODE
- 11. IMPORTANT FUNCTIONS ‘ This is a comment WAIT SECONDS=5 URL GOTO=some_URL TAG POS=1 TYPE=BUTTON ATTR=CLASS:HELLO TAB T=3 TAB CLOSE
- 13. HACK #2 - LINKEDIN CODING AN AUTO-VIEW MACRO WITH JAVASCRIPT
- 14. CAN I WRITE MY MACROS WITH JAVASCRIPT?
- 16. HACK #3 - SOUNDCLOUD SCRAPPING & FOLLOWING ALL ARTIST’S FOLLOWERS
- 17. HOW CAN I USE A PROXY WITH IMACROS?
- 18. WHAT IS A PROXY?
- 20. #1. Relaunch the macro every time it ends. (even though you could use their API in their Enterprise Edition $995.00) #2. You may need to run some JavaScript in the page you may visit to change their behavior. #3. You can connect iMacros to a database, but I think that there are better tools for these situations. Besides, MongoDB is not available. THE LIMITS
- 21. MY BEST ALTERNATIVES PHANTOMJS, CASPERJS & SPOOKYJS
- 22. FIND YOUR TRACTION PATTERNS AND TRIGGER THE ACTIONS YOU NEED
- 24. QUESTIONS?