Ask HN: Any local agents to help repetitive browser tasks?

18•pcdoodle•4mo ago

Been spending a lot of time just buying and printing labels through an e-commerce platform and it got me wondering: is there anything to run on a local PC that could automate this?

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satvikpendem•4mo ago

You might be able to use AutoHotKey rather than looking for an AI agent.

https://www.autohotkey.com/

https://github.com/raeleus/AHK-Macro-Recorder

pcdoodle•4mo ago

Good recommendation. I see there’s others using this as well for this type of task, but it’s not fully automated. They got it to the point where it detects PDFs of shipping labels and automatically prints, but not the purchasing part.

nicbou•4mo ago

Playwright is a great tool for this. There is a helper for writing automations. It's commonly used for automated testing but it's good for controlling a browser with Python scripts in general.

darkvertex•4mo ago

Playwright is great. Take a look at Stagehand, it's an AI layer built on top of Playwright: https://www.stagehand.dev (It can run locally.)

busymom0•4mo ago

If one owns a Mac and knows swift or objective c, they can just use WKWebView with user scripts too.

leakycap•4mo ago

> spending a lot of time just buying and printing labels through an e-commerce platform

Why can't you just connect the platforms?

If there is no default way to do this, try Zapier. IFTTT is a very low cost option if Zapier doesn't support your vendors. Between those two you can connect almost anything.

miguelspizza•4mo ago

Hey I wrote MCP-B and am about to do another launch here in a week or so. The product is a browser agent which does browser automation sudo-deterministically over WebMCP.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44515403

I’d love to give your beta access and get your thoughts if you are up to give it a run on the task you want automated.

Shoot me an email if you are interested

alex(at)mcp-b.ai

bofadeez•4mo ago

https://github.com/tebelorg/RPA-Python

decide1000•4mo ago

I use Comet since today and I believe that can do exactly what you need. I ordered stuff on Amazon autonomous.

suchintan•4mo ago

Have you given Skyvern a try? Integrating it with n8n might do the trick

suchintan•4mo ago

We can do it remotely with Skyvern if you're interested

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