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cliclick
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BlueM / cliclick

cliclick

macOS CLI tool for emulating mouse and keyboard events

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macOS CLI tool for emulating mouse and keyboard events

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Observed mentions: 2020-03-02 13:25:16 UTC to 2025-01-11 17:06:05 UTC.

0122020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025

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The name for me is less important so much as can I have something that does my work for me. I've been starting to play with my own solutions between the 3 foundational modal companies. I've started to try to build my own stuff a bit, I think I need to learn more about apple scripting, also so far my experiments have required me to have multiple systems running to make it super easy for me. You're all going to laugh at this stuff because it's so remedial and also clearly not agents but a couple things I've done... I won't say I really USE this stuff daily, I just play to see what I can do. I've figured out how to pass screenshots back and forth between modals (I have one computer take a screenshot every 30 minutes, and then send that screenshot to another machine, that machine is set up with a mouse hovering over the upload button on perpl
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exity, it uploads the screenshot, and then perplexity does the work from the screenshot) An example of this that worked ok was I had chatgpt create all the themes for the social media schedule I needed to do this year, then I passed that screenshot to perplexity to do the searching on the web, and then I passed that to claud to write the tweet. This actually works ok-ish and I'm going to expand it a bit over the coming weeks I guess. Things like this are super helpful for weird hacks like that: https://github.com/BlueM/cliclick Another thing I've found actually works pretty well is setting up two computers next to each other with ChatGPT voice mode, if you give them custom instructions to be sure to wait for the other one to be done talking, they don't interrupt each other and can get quite a bit of work done. Here is just a video of the mvp that I sent to a friend ages ago once I started playing with the idea: https://s.h4x.club/kpuzNkNL - I actually use this method of working quite often now, couple times a week at least, I find it's pretty helpful. If I knew how to put 4/5 modals together in one app and give them each custom instructions, I'd love to try building a team (if someone out there actually knows how to build this kinda stuff, I'm happy to help flesh out how the product would need to work, but I don't think it's super difficult to build at this point, I'm just not technical enough)
In Ask HN: Are there any real examples of AI agents doing work?
Pretending to be a user is a good way around some anti cheat systems as well. The computer game FIFA has an online marketplace where you can buy and sell players, and a lot of people write Chrome extensions (or Puppeteer bots) to "script" hotkeys or create sniping bots, but since EA track you constantly, they can figure it out eventually. Instead, I wrote some code to control the mouse and keyboard with cliclick (https://github.com/BlueM/cliclick), move the pointer around naturally, etc. and you can leave it running for hours without incident. https://pyautogui.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ is another approach to doing this for any Pythonistas in the house.
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