I wish to create a workflow on my Mac the place I choose textual content on a Chrome webpage after which press a hotkey mixture to vary the title of tab to be the chosen textual content.
I generate plenty of tabs that get an identical titles and I wish to tag them with one thing primarily based on the contents to give you the option inform them aside. I exploit 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 numerous 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 numerous archiving flows rely upon the tabs having significant titles. The web site(s) will not be doing that sufficiently for my functions, so I wish to manually tag them, most often as rapidly 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 verify and transfer on.
My concept is to have the hotkey provoke one thing like the next computerized 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 following browser tab.
I can write a easy Service to ship all of the keystrokes. However do not know how you can automate the Click on that’s required.
I need to have the ability to do that roughly 20-40 occasions a day, day after day, so I can not presume that the Chrome window can be on the similar display screen location, on the identical monitor, the identical window measurement, or any of the opposite assumptions that primary click-automation scripts like Cliclick appear to require.
I can presume that the RenameTab dropdown can be on the similar relative location to the Higher Proper nook of the Chrome window (truly relative to the extension button which is generally secure). The picture right here is on Home windows, from the Chrome internet retailer, however I am engaged on a Mac.
I’ve discovered references to Selenium as probably in a position to try this click on, however the Selenium tutorials that I’ve discovered wish to put me by weeks of changing into a Check Automation skilled.
I presume that Selenium can do its factor in a method 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 internet web page, has displayed a dropdown window and may 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 internet web page, so perhaps it can not cope with having the ability to determine content material that is generated by the browser body itself.
Do I perhaps must forgo Selenium as a substitute utilizing extra primary click on automation instruments and seize the present window measurement after which subtract the coordinates primarily based on the Higher Proper nook to get the clicking coordinates relative to the present window? Do I must additionally cope with the present window place on the display screen?
Sorry for dumping all the main points, however I do not know how you can 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 attempting to elucidate precisely what I wish to do, in what context, and why. In researching this, time and again I discover that the descriptions of assorted instruments are enthusiastic descriptions of how the device works in use circumstances 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 probably outfitted to do the job.
Any skilled steerage can be appreciated. Should you 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 may need to …” or level me to the place the fundamental working ideas are outlined, I’d be grateful.
Thanks.