Navalia is an easy-to-use browser automation framework that can also scale with just about any project. It has two primary objects: simplicity and performance. Browser automation should be an enjoyable experience and not a painful one.

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Features

Navalia is a “batteries-included” framework that offers all of the following features:

• A simple, human-readable API.
• A GraphQL front-end.
• Massive parallelization by using tabs and multiple browser instances.
• Ability to capture screenshots, pdfs, execute javascript, insert text, and more on a webpage.
• Build multi-page workflows with complex user-interactions.
• Set thresholds like timers or TTL’s for scripts so nothing blocks your execution.

Getting Started

You’ll need some software already installed on your system before using Navalia:

1. Chrome installed (more vendors to come soon) on your system.
2. Node.js needs to be installed as well. You can install node here.
3. If you wish to use a more strongly-typed experience, you can also install typescript.

Feel free to open an issue on GitHub.

Usage

The API for interacting with a browser is simple and chainable. You can call the methods individually and await/then the resulting value, or chain multiple together and collect their responses in a single result.

Chaining

const { Chrome } = require('navalia');
const chrome = new Chrome();

chrome
  .goto('https://amazon.com')
  .type('input', 'Kindle')
  .click('.buy-now')
  .end()
  .then((responses) => {
    console.log(responses); // ['https://www.amazon.com/', true, true, true]
  });

Await

import { Chrome } from 'navalia';
const chrome = new Chrome();

async function buyItOnAmazon() {
  const url = await chrome.goto('https://amazon.com');
  const typed = await chrome.type('input', 'Kindle');
  const clicked = await chrome.click('.buy-now');

  chrome.done();

  console.log(url, typed, clicked);
}

buyItOnAmazon();