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

18 points by pcdoodle ↗ HN
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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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.
> 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.

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

I use Comet since today and I believe that can do exactly what you need. I ordered stuff on Amazon autonomous.
Have you given Skyvern a try? Integrating it with n8n might do the trick
We can do it remotely with Skyvern if you're interested