nightmare

I've been doing some preliminary searching, but have so far come up mostly inconclusive in finding way to automate interaction with android devices. Coming from browser automation using https://github.com/segmentio/nightmare and an obvious DOM to interface with, I'm not sure how this might work on a real android device, or what tools are available. I do have an understanding of modern android and java development. In this case, the goal would be to automate opening an arbitrary app already installed on the phone and without source code access, move a cursor or simulate touch events in specific areas, send keys to focused form fields, and ideally waiting for async events—like file upload—to finish.

I use nightmarejs https://github.com/segmentio/nightmare which is based on electron; I recommend it if you're on js

I used Nightmare (https://github.com/segmentio/nightmare) to automate logging into my 401(k) provider's website and fetching my current balance (no public tickers for the funds). It uploads that number somewhere and then I fetch that somewhere in a Google Sheets spreadsheet where I keep track of my portfolio.

Have you seen Nightmare? https://github.com/segmentio/nightmare

Unfortunately, headless Chrome is still missing some features and file downloads is one of them. I believe Nightmare [1] (running on Electron) handles files download, it might be worth looking at it? [1] https://github.com/segmentio/nightmare

You can. In my experience, there are very few systems as good at producing accurate renders as well as Chrome. There are a few Chrome/webkit based options. PhantomJS made the process pretty easy, but that's probably not a good option these days as it's on the way out. NightmareJS is pretty much the same and can do it (though I haven't tested myself) [0] If you want to get a little deeper you can use CEF (Chromium Embedded Framework [1 ]. It basically turns Chrome into a library and there are a bunch of projects that build on top of it (eg Electron, which is what NightmareJS uses underneath). Here's a project that just uses CEF for converting to PDF [2]. [0] https://github.com/segmentio/nightmare#pdfpath-options [1] https://bitbucket.org/chromiumembedded/cef/overview [2] https://github.com/spajak/cef-pdf

Nightmare is great for this: https://github.com/segmentio/nightmare

it should be noted that nightmare isn't safe for untrusted websites: https://github.com/segmentio/nightmare/issues/1060

There is an excellent library called nightmare (based on electron). If you need print-screens you can use xvfb or wait for this issue: https://github.com/segmentio/nightmare/issues/224

Has anyone used [Nightmare](https://github.com/segmentio/nightmare)? It's built on top of Electron -- the Atom code editor is built on Electron.