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reactormonk
02/09/2023, 6:59 PMIs there something like https://rubydoc.info/gems/mechanize/Mechanize for kotlin?
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Landry Norris
02/09/2023, 7:00 PMThis looks like it’s related to UI. You would need to use XCUITest for SwiftUI/UIKit on iOS or Espresso for Compose on Android. Compose on desktop seems to also have a Espresso-like testing framework.
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reactormonk
02/09/2023, 7:01 PMClose, but no cigar. It's to interact with websites based on HTML only. I don't think it does Javascript.
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Landry Norris
02/09/2023, 7:02 PMAre you building a site with Kotlin/JS, or asking about an equivalent on other platforms?
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reactormonk
02/09/2023, 7:03 PMI'm asking for a library to interact with websites based on their HTML.
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Casey Brooks
02/09/2023, 7:06 PMI’m not aware of anythin in Kotlin, but you might be able to make that library work by running it through JRuby or GraalVM, both of which are Java projects and should interop with Kotlin very well.
Alternatively, you could probably write a lot of that functionality yourself on top of jsoup, which is a Java HTML parser. It makes it really easy to read and manipulate HTML documents
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reactormonk
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