I need to create a workflow on my Mac the place I choose textual content on a Chrome webpage after which press a hotkey mixture to alter the title of tab to be the chosen textual content.
I generate a number of tabs that get an identical titles and I need to tag them with one thing primarily based on the contents to find a way inform them aside. I take advantage of the Chrome extension Tabs Outliner that shows a tree diagram of my tabs with their titles. As soon as the tab construction is in Tabs Outliner, I can do varied issues like copy the tree of that window and paste it into Google docs as an archive of the tabs I created, my analysis, testing variations, no matter.
However all my varied archiving flows rely on the tabs having significant titles. The web site(s) aren’t doing that sufficiently for my functions, so I need to manually tag them, most often as shortly and simply as potential. Choose textual content and press a hotkey appears about as fast as I can get in need of having the pc learn my thoughts and observe my eye actions. Perhaps add the complexity of stopping to permit me to edit the pasted textual content after which urgent one other hotkey to substantiate and transfer on.
My concept is to have the hotkey provoke one thing like the next automated circulate.
- Cmd+C: Copy the chosen textual content.
- Ctrl+Shift+A: Open the RenameTab Chrome extension.
- Cmd+V: Paste the copied textual content into the RenameTab textual content subject within the dropdown.
- CLICK the “Lock Title (beta)” button within the RenameTab dropdown.
- Ctrl+Tab: Transfer to the subsequent browser tab.
I can write a easy Service to ship all of the keystrokes. However do not know the best way to automate the Click on that’s required.
I would like to have the ability to do that roughly 20-40 instances a day, day after day, so I can not presume that the Chrome window might be on the identical display location, on the identical monitor, the identical window dimension, or any of the opposite assumptions that primary click-automation scripts like Cliclick appear to require.
I can presume that the RenameTab dropdown might be on the identical relative location to the Higher Proper nook of the Chrome window (truly relative to the extension button which is usually secure). The picture right here is on Home windows, from the Chrome net retailer, however I am engaged on a Mac.
I’ve discovered references to Selenium as presumably ready to do this click on, however the Selenium tutorials that I’ve discovered need to put me by weeks of turning into a Check Automation skilled.
I presume that Selenium can do its factor in a manner that defaults to the present browser window, present browser tab. However how do I inform Selenium the place to click on?
Can Selenium acknowledge that the browser body, not the present net web page, has displayed a dropdown window and might it discover the button by title? All of the stuff I have been in a position to perceive about Selenium up to now is that it appears to cope with the displayed net web page, so possibly it can not cope with with the ability to establish content material that is generated by the browser body itself.
Do I possibly have to forgo Selenium as an alternative utilizing extra primary click on automation instruments and seize the present window dimension after which subtract the coordinates primarily based on the Higher Proper nook to get the clicking coordinates relative to the present window? Do I have to additionally cope with the present window place on the display?
Sorry for dumping all the small print, however I do not know the best way to ask the query extra merely with out working the danger of presuming what the answer is after I actually do not know. So I am making an attempt to elucidate precisely what I need to do, in what context, and why. In researching this, again and again I discover that the descriptions of assorted instruments are enthusiastic descriptions of how the device works in use instances that do not appear to overlap with mine, with out ever explaining the underlying working mechanism in order that I can decide whether or not or not the device is even presumably outfitted to do the job.
Any skilled steerage could be appreciated. If you happen to can inform me issues like “Cliclick presumes this so you will not be capable of …” or “Selenium can solely cope with what it will get from … so you will should …” or level me to the place the essential working ideas are outlined, I might be grateful.
Thanks.
