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📝About

Control Chrome from terminal. Run YAML tasks. Loop until complete (Ralph Wiggum pattern).

• CDP-based - Direct Chrome DevTools Protocol control
• YAML tasks - Define automation steps declaratively
• Autonomous loops - Run until completion marker found
• Safety guards - Max iterations, timeout, exponential backoff

💻Install

npm i -g glidercli

Requirements

• Node 18+
• Chrome with Glider extension
• bserve relay server

🚀Usage

glider status                    # check connection
glider goto "https://x.com"      # navigate
glider eval "document.title"     # run JS
glider run task.yaml             # execute task file
glider loop task.yaml -n 50      # autonomous loop

🔄The Loop

The loop command runs your task repeatedly until:

• Completion marker found (LOOP_COMPLETE or DONE)
• Max iterations reached
• Timeout hit

glider loop scrape-feed.yaml -n 100 -t 3600

Safety: max iterations, timeout, exponential backoff on errors, state persistence.

📄Task Files

name: "Get timeline"
steps:
  - goto: "https://x.com/home"
  - wait: 3
  - eval: "document.querySelectorAll('article').length"
  - screenshot: "/tmp/timeline.png"

⚡Commands

| Command | What | |---------|------| | glider status | Server/extension/tab status | | glider start | Start relay server | | glider goto <url> | Navigate | | glider eval <js> | Execute JavaScript | | glider click <sel> | Click element | | glider type <sel> <text> | Type into input | | glider screenshot | Capture page | | glider run <file> | Run YAML task | | glider loop <file> | Autonomous loop |

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