HACKER Q&A
📣 pcdoodle

Any local agents to help repetitive browser tasks?


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?


  👤 nicbou Accepted Answer ✓
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.

👤 satvikpendem
You might be able to use AutoHotKey rather than looking for an AI agent.

https://www.autohotkey.com/

https://github.com/raeleus/AHK-Macro-Recorder


👤 miguelspizza
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


👤 leakycap
> 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.


👤 decide1000
I use Comet since today and I believe that can do exactly what you need. I ordered stuff on Amazon autonomous.