The Web browser is probably the most frequently used software today, and many tasks are highly repetitious. iMacros for Firefox relieves the repetition of checking on the same sites every day, remembering passwords and filling out web forms. You can even embed the imacro on your homepage, blog, company Intranet or any social bookmarking service. Web professionals can use the software for functional, performance and regression testing of web applications. Another use is to automate web scraping, for example the extraction of online stock quotes or web store prices. ***Whatever you do with Firefox, iMacros can automate it.***
Automate your web browser. Record and replay repetitious work.
iMacros has many uses:
(1) Form Filler on Steroids and Password Manager
iMacros for Firefox relieves the repetition of checking on the same sites every day, remembering passwords, and filling out web forms. iMacros is the only form filler that can autofill web forms that stretch over several pages. All information is stored in human-readable, plain text files that can be easily edited. Passwords are stored securely with 256-Bit AES encryption.
iMacros is a good alternative Solution to Enterprise Single Sign-On (SSO). Users memorize only one master password. iMacros remembers all the rest, and provides true automated logins (a better Single Sign-On).
(2) Web Automation
iMacros can also automate the download of pages (with or without images) and all kinds of images or files. In the other direction it can also automate the upload of data from a file to websites. You can use variables inside the macros, and import data from CSV files. It includes user agent switcher, PDF download and Flash, ad and image blocking functions.
The recorded macros can be combined and controlled with Javascript, so even very complex tasks can be scripted.
(3) Data extraction/Web Scraping/Web mining/Enterprise Data Mash-ups
Just the opposite of form filling. With the EXTRACT command you can read data from a website and export it to CSV files. iMacros includes full Unicode support and works with every language, including multi-byte languages such as Chinese.
(4) Web Testing
Web professionals use the iMacros add-on for functional, performace, and regression testing of web applications. With the built-in STOPWATCH command exact web page response times can be captured. iMacros also includes support for many AJAX elements.
(5) Social Scripting (Social Bookmarking)
Right-click any macro to add a reference to your regular bookmarks or select "Run Everywhere" and embed the complete macro in a simple link. You can share this imacro with your friends and colleagues by just sending them a link! Or embed the link on your homepage, blog and company Intranet. This way you can help your website visitors to perform a certain task, for example filling out a web form. Instead of explaining how to fill out a form, let iMacros do it for them. All information is stored inside the link as text string, nothing is stored on our servers (That is why it works in a Intranet, too). Example page: http://del.icio.us/imacros/imacro
(6) For more ideas on how to use iMacros please visit http://www.iopus.com/imacros/firefox
and our active support forum at http://forum.iopus.com
iMacros can be combined with other extensions such as Greasemonkey, Web Developer, Firebug, Download Statusbar, NoScript, eBay Companion, Tab Effect, Fasterfox, SwitchProxy, Foxyproxy, Torbutton, Flashblock, VideoDownloader, DownThemAll, MinimizeToTray, FireFTP, Screengrab, RSS and Atom feed reader or Adblock without any problems.
Whatever you do with Firefox, iMacros can automate it.
iMacros for Firefox is free for personal and commercial use.
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Firefox: 1.5 – 3.0a7
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