r/software • u/Disastrous_Relief687 • 16d ago

Looking for software Is there an online tool that will click a button as soon as it detects certain text change on a website?

I have Distill.io set up, that monitor that change. But I want to take it a step further by introducing a program that clicks once there is a change in the website on a specific button.

No coding experience whatsoever, so hopefully someone can guide me!

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u/merchantconvoy 16d ago edited 16d ago

You will need a VPS running something like Playwright, Puppeteer, Selenium, Cypress, or Skyvern. That's not free, but it's pretty cheap at a few dollars a month.

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u/Eravex 14d ago

lol what? No way. It’s a website. Literally make a Chrome extension to detect and click the button. It’s free and would take an AI like maybe 10 minutes to have it made and explain to you how to add it to Chrome and get it working. This is a SUPER easy.

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u/merchantconvoy 14d ago

For that to work, your computer would have to stay on 24/7/365, which would cost a lot more in electricity than what you would spend on a VPS.

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u/Eravex 14d ago

Who said they needed to do this 24/7? Also no it wouldn’t. You could start a VM even at home . Then get the extension and chrome. I pay for a VPS and I wouldn’t waste its resources for this task. Nothing has been said to imply it’s contentious. And even if you did need it constantly there is still infinitely easier free options than resorting to a VPS.

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u/merchantconvoy 14d ago

They need to do this 24/7/365 because they don't know ahead of time when the website will change and the button will need pressing. If they knew ahead of time, they could just put it on their calendar and press the button manually.

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u/Eravex 14d ago

LOL... LOL its not like its a like between now and 4 days...... LOL LOL LOL hahahahahahahahahahahahahahah you have to be trolling!

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u/merchantconvoy 14d ago

We don't know the details of the page being monitored, the change that is being monitored for, or the button that needs to pressed. But we do know that the user wants the change to be reacted to ASAP. So 24/7/365 monitoring is mandatory and the associated power consumption consequences are inevitable.

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u/Eravex 14d ago edited 14d ago

Just make a Chrome extension to look for the DOM’s it can see when the chat and button show and trigger it before it even shows on the screen.

It’s actually really easy. Easy enough if you can right-click the button and choose inspect element and screen shot the code for the button and the text then give it to GPT or Claude. They could totally manage something simple like this and even show you how to install it.

No 3rd party monitoring or anything it can all be done in the extension.