Geek notes: Automating Bulk Web Stuff with iMacros Sacha

I needed to grab the text from~200 items through a JSON API,but the authentication methodthe server used didn't play wellwith Rubyor CURL,I tried Selenium's Ruby gem,but it didn't work with theChrome Driver I found, and Iwas having problems with Firefox.I tried Download Them all,but that failed too.пишиFortunately, I figured outsomething that worked!لملاChvaNov 21, 20137¡Macros lets me write text scripts

• Emacs for keyboard macros &

+encoding conversionCiso-latin- to utf-8)Ruby for JSON parsing & textprocessing

• Emacs] for more text manipulation

1That should make it easy for meto handle lots of similar requests...obstadeobstacobstack (ObstchTechofteninvolves tryinglots of differentthings untilyou find a way that works.Good luck!