automate-save-page-as | Automate browser 's `` Save Page As '' operation | Grid library

automate-save-page-as is a Shell library typically used in User Interface, Grid, OpenCV, Selenium applications. automate-save-page-as has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities, it has a Permissive License and it has low support. You can download it from GitHub.

This small bash script simulates a sequence of key presses which opens a given url in the browser, save the page (Ctrl+S), and close the browser tab/window (Ctrl+F4). Chained together, these operations allow you to use the "Save Page As" (Ctrl+S) programtically (currently you can use either of google-chrome, chromium-browser or firefox, and it’s fairly straight forward to add support for your favorite browser). The script needs xdotool installed (sudo apt-get install xdotool (for Ubuntu). Sidenote: My particular use case while writing this script was crawling a bunch of web pages which were rendered almost entierly on client side using lots of javascript magic (thus saving output of wget url was useless). Since the browser is capable of rendering those pages, and also saving the post-render version on disk (using Ctrl+S), I wrote this script to automate the process (Tested on Ubuntu 12.04 and 14.04 myself).