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- <title>Bumblebee: browser automation</title>
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- <h2 class="center" id="title">BUMBLEBEE: BROWSER AUTOMATION</h2>
- <h6 class="center">02 APRIL 2025</h5>
- <br>
- <div class="twocol justify"><p>Bumblebee is a tool I built for one of my employers to automate the generation
-of web scraping scripts.</p>
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-<video style="max-width:100%; margin-bottom: 10px" controls="" poster="poster.png">
- <source src="bee.mp4" type="video/mp4" />
-</video>
-
-<p>In 2024, we were tasked with collecting market data using various methods,
-including scraping data from authorized websites for traders’ use.</p>
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-<p>Manual authoring of such scripts took time. The scripts were often brittle due
-to the complexity of the modern web, and they lacked optimizations such as
-bypassing the UI and retrieving the data files directly when possible, which
-would have significantly reduced our compute costs.</p>
-
-<p>To alleviate these challenges, I, with the help of a colleague, Andy Zhang,
-built Bumblebee: a web browser powered by C# Windows Forms, Microsoft Edge <a src="https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/webview2" class="external" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">WebView2</a>, and
-the <a src="https://github.com/desjarlais/Scintilla.NET" class="external" toarget="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Scintilla.NET</a> text editor.</p>
-
-<p>Bumblebee works by injecting a custom JavaScript program that intercepts
-client-side events and sends them to Bumblebee for analysis. In addition to
-front-end events, Bumblebee also captures internal browser events, which it
-then interprets to generate code in real time. Note that we developed Bumblebee
-before the advent of now-popular LLMs. Bumblebee supports dynamic websites,
-pop-ups, developer tools, live manual override, event debouncing, and filtering
-hidden elements and scripts.</p>
-
-<p>Before settling on a desktop application, we contemplated designing Bumblebee
-as a browser extension. We chose the desktop app because extensions don’t offer
-the deep, event-based control we needed. Besides, the company’s security
-policy, which prohibited browser extensions, would have complicated the
-deployment of an extension-based solution. My first prototype used a C# binding
-of the Chromium project. WebView’s more intuitive API and its seamless
-integration with Windows Forms led us to choose it over the Chromium wrapper.</p>
-
-<p>What began as a personal side project to improve my own workflow enabled us to
-collectively improve the quality of our web scripts at a much larger scale.
-Bumblebee predictably reduced the time we spent on authoring scripts from hours
-to a few minutes.</p>
-
-</div>
- <p class="post-author right">by W. D. Sadeep Madurange</p>
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- <p id="footer-text">&copy; ASCIIMX - 2025</p>
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