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Automating the browser

Supercool article on how to do it:

https://jose-elias-alvarez.medium.com/mouse-less-web-browsing-for-speed-and-productivity-316903a8468d

SUMMARY: [by increasing order of maturity and steepness of learning curve]

  1. Vimari for Safari and VimiumC for Firefox and Chrome
    • Stay in the comform of familiar browsers
    • Navigate around as in VIM
    • Copy from browser by \ (finding) text, going on v visual mode and y yanking selection
  2. Surfingkeys
    • Same as #1 and:
    • Edit input fields like VIM
    • Control the browser and manipulate the contents of a page.
  3. Qutebrowser. A useful YouTube video
    • Now we’re in a new browser altogether.
    • Customizability is next level. Using python or bash scripting

Bonus Take it to the command line interface altogether using W3M. Cons: - does not support javascript

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