looking for a tool suggestion

[David Schwartz 439]

I’m looking for a tool that lets you hook into a browser window while a web app is running and access the DOM, allowing some AI prompts (eg., ChatGPT) that I've written to execute, maybe via a popup menu.

 

What I need is the ability to simulate an EXPORT and IMPORT process in a web app that doesn't offer it, taking the data from the fields in the current window and letting you save it as, say, a JSON file; as well as letting you open such a JSON file (eg, with edited values) and use the data in it to fill the fields where the data is intended to go.

 

I use RoboForm regularly, which has a way of doing this, but it's mainly for managing login forms like LastPass, 1Password, etc., so it's clearly possible to create such a bridge using a browser plugin. It lets you save and fill forms, but the data is saved to its own internal storage; I need it sent to a JSON file that I can save to disk or pass on to some other app somehow in terms of the EXPORT process. Importing would require opening the JSON file on disk or maybe have it pasted from the clipboard.

 

I don't really care what browser, but Chromium is the most prevelant.

 

Just wondering if anybody here knows of something that might do this. Maybe a debugging tool, or a type of "screen scraping" tool, or just something like RoboForm that does exactly what I want.

 

 

[Der schöne Günther 322]

It's not my area of expertise, but I'd be sure you won't solve this without a proper browser plugin/extension which may then receive its data from outside. I doubt a simple binary executable from "outside" can reliably do this without breaking with the next browser update.

[David Schwartz 439]

2 hours ago, Der schöne Günther said:

It's not my area of expertise, but I'd be sure you won't solve this without a proper browser plugin/extension which may then receive its data from outside. I doubt a simple binary executable from "outside" can reliably do this without breaking with the next browser update.

Yes, that's what I was thinking, and why I mentioned RoboForm. Thanks.

 

I posted this on Reddit and a guy replied saying he pasted my question into ChatGPT and tweaked the prompt a bit, and it spat out all of the code needed for a Chrome plugin -- he said he tried it and it worked fine. Although, I'm a little skeptical because he changed the description just a tad, and it's not exactly what I asked for. But it was a valid approach. (I'm thinking he tweaked it to make sure I tried it myself and didn't just blindly copy-and-paste, which I know can be rather dangerous.... or maybe ChatGPT changed it.... hmmmmm)

 

 

Edited 5 hours ago by David Schwartz