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Is There Any Client Side Web Automation


I work in a public sector university I use selenium with C# for automating routine tasks. I have admin rights so I just develop various win forms apps to do that. But most of my colleagues cant use such apps as they do not have admin rights. The apps are so useful and time saving that I want it to share with all colleagues But admin rights is the issue, so please direct me to a solution that can work completely on client side.

Plz also note that I cant create setups and ask networking staff to install it on all PCs as there are around 150 of them, and also the apps often are updated every couple of months.


Solution

  • PhantomJS worked without requiring admin rights, but it is already paused, as per their official page, so the only hack to my mind is, ask networking staff to install visual studio (with C# setup) on all PCs, this way I can just hand over the apps to all and they can open and run from VS, instead of direct exe, and it will eliminate requiring updating of apps as users will just need to get the latest app folder. A down side is un necessary window of VS and the memory but the benefits would outweigh this issue.