Recently I found out about the Firefox add-on called iMacros.  I checked it out and it seemed to work but on closer inspection it was nearly impossible to get it to record a macro and have it play back correctly.  Today I found another, much better Firefox add-on to do the same thing.  This one is from IBM and the interface is much cleaner than the iMacros add-on.

It’s called CoScripter.  After you’ve gone through a fairly indepth form you can download the add-on.  It’s a beauty.  Besides being much easier to understand and write scripts with there’s also a host of premade scripts that are available from the CoScripter website.  They have at the moment over 200 scripts ranging from “Google Yourself” to “Update your facebook status”.

They have an integrated the web into the product so that all scripts are hosted online so you can get at your scripts from any computer you have the add-on installed in.

The scripts themselves are written in a bullet point format and the commands are very easy to read English sentences.  They have a personal database that is used to fill out forms.

Interested? Check it out here

First impressions of this tool are very promising.  I will try to investigate further and see if it can handle some advanced data gathering.

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