Chickenfoot mixed with jQuery.

Chickenfoot is a Firefox extension design for website automation.

Chickenfoot is a Firefox extension that puts a programming environment in the browser’s sidebar so you can write scripts to manipulate web pages and automate web browsing. In Chickenfoot, scripts are written in a superset of Javascript that includes special functions specific to web tasks.

Basically, it let’s you take control of Firefox and simulate a user. The API is fill with basic operation, like go(url), append(content), onClick( function, window) and etc. You can get more power and functionality by including other JavaScript libraries and frameworks. That’s when the fun begins.

Since the goal in website automation is a lot of HTML manipulations then, jQuery is the best framework for the job. jQuery can be easily included with a simple fix here.
Here are some examples of Chickenfoot scripts. Once Chickenfoot is installed hit f8, press the “New” tab, then insert one of the following scripts.

Downloading a URL

include( "fileio.js" ); //Enables the write and read commands.
var url = "http://google.com",
content = read( url ),
filename = desktopDir().path + "\\google.html";

write( filename, content );


Clean up craigslist.org

include( "http://bateru.com/js/jquery-1.4.2-mod.js" );
$ = window.$;
var url = "http://houston.craigslist.org/sss/";
go( url, true ); //Refresh the page to the url
sleep(2); // So you can see the different.
var cleanHTML = $(document.body).html().toLowerCase();
cleanHTML = cleanHTML.replace( /[$\*!]{2}|[~\*]/gi, "");
$( document.body ).html( cleanHTML );


Overall, Chickenfoot is a great extension to have. These few examples shown here only scratch the surface of what it’s capable of.

Chickenfoot 1.0.7 link
jQuery link

jLed – jquery led banner plugin

Working on jLed. Converting it to a jquery plugin soon.
Inspired from http://www.ajaxray.com/blog/2010/02/28/jquery-led-scrolling-banner-fun-plugin/.
Here’s a demo.
jLed demo

Learn Those Kana v0.8

Hey Everyone,
I’ve been working hard to push out a great example of the potential jquizme has to offer to learning.

“Learn Those Kana”, demonstrate the true power of scripting, by providing plenty of exercise for mastering character recognition by sight and sound.
Anyhow check it out at at the link below.

Learn Those Kana v0.8

jQuizMe 2.1 Release Page

This holiday break gave me the time that I need to push out a next release of jQuizMe.
Check it out at Google Code, jQuizMe.

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