{"id":204,"date":"2010-06-01T15:48:06","date_gmt":"2010-06-01T21:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bateru.com\/news\/?p=204"},"modified":"2010-06-01T20:37:03","modified_gmt":"2010-06-02T02:37:03","slug":"chickenfoot-mixxed-with-jquery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bateru.com\/news\/2010\/06\/chickenfoot-mixxed-with-jquery\/","title":{"rendered":"Chickenfoot mixed with jQuery."},"content":{"rendered":"

Chickenfoot<\/a> is a Firefox extension design for website automation. <\/p>\n

\nChickenfoot 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.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Basically, it let’s you take control of Firefox and simulate a user. The API<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n

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<\/a>.
\nHere are some examples of Chickenfoot scripts. Once Chickenfoot is installed hit f8, press the “New” tab, then insert one of the following scripts. <\/p>\n

\nDownloading a URL<\/b>
\n
\ninclude( \"fileio.js\" ); \/\/Enables the write and read commands.
\nvar url = \"http:\/\/google.com\",
\n content = read( url ),
\n filename = desktopDir().path + \"\\\\google.html\";<\/p>\n

write( filename, content );
\n<\/code>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nClean up craigslist.org<\/b>
\n
\ninclude( \"http:\/\/bateru.com\/js\/jquery-1.4.2-mod.js\" );
\n$ = window.$;
\nvar url = \"http:\/\/houston.craigslist.org\/sss\/\";
\ngo( url, true ); \/\/Refresh the page to the url
\nsleep(2); \/\/ So you can see the different.
\nvar cleanHTML = $(document.body).html().toLowerCase();
\ncleanHTML = cleanHTML.replace( \/[$\\*!]{2}|[~\\*]\/gi, \"\");
\n$( document.body ).html( cleanHTML );
\n<\/code>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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

Chickenfoot 1.0.7 link<\/a>
\njQuery link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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, … Continue reading Chickenfoot mixed with jQuery.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[15,164,5,163],"class_list":["post-204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-frontend-tech","tag-firefox","tag-javascript","tag-jquery","tag-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bateru.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bateru.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bateru.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bateru.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bateru.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/bateru.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":223,"href":"https:\/\/bateru.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions\/223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bateru.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bateru.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bateru.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}