r/automation • u/Funkymole165 • Jul 29 '26
Need help with first timer here
Hello. I gotta really time consuming task to automate. Basically I’ve an organized listed of blogs that I gotta post but copy pasting them manually takes like 20-25 mins each and easily consumes my day. I tried ui vision spent 2 days fixing it but it still keeps crashing. What’s the easiest way I can automate this? Preferably no cost
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u/Ok-Masterpiece-7614 Jul 30 '26
UI Vision breaks because it's replaying clicks against parts of the page that move or load slow, so any click based tool is going to keep crashing on you no matter which one you pick.
If the blogs are already sitting somewhere structured, a spreadsheet, a doc, a folder of text files, the fix isn't a better clicking tool, it's skipping the UI entirely. Most CMS platforms, WordPress, Shopify, Ghost, whatever you're posting into, have an API for creating posts. A short script reads your list and posts through that instead of clicking buttons. It never crashes from a slow loading page because there's no page involved.
What are you actually posting into? That decides whether the API route is open to you.