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Nov 22, 2025 at 9:35 AM EST

Show HN: Selenium IDE is dead; so I built a new one

markjivko
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Selenium

Web Automation

Ide

Chrome Devtools Protocol

Ten years ago at my former job we abused Selenium. We used it to automate uploading and updating thousands of apps on Google Play, and it worked great! I say "abuse" because the tool was obviously meant for functional testing, not the kinds of flows we needed. Oh, and how we did abuse it with evals and such.

Fast-forward to today, and Selenium IDE is no longer supported on Google Chrome and the core project itself feels, for lack of a better word, dead.

So I built the web automation tool I wish existed a decade ago. Running on top of a finite-state machine, instead of a CSV-like linear list of actions. With a true IDE that has code formatting and linting. Issuing trusted events through Chrome DevTools Protocol (CDP) vs. WebDriver. Shareable modules, environment and global variables, a locally running large language model, exportable results, scheduled tasks, detailed logs, and much more.

I really hope you like it!

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