CoScripter (formerly Koala) is a discontinued a browser-based
macro recorder developed by
IBM Research
IBM Research is the research and development division for IBM, an American Multinational corporation, multinational information technology company. IBM Research is headquartered at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York ...
. Implemented as an
extension
Extension, extend or extended may refer to:
Mathematics
Logic or set theory
* Axiom of extensionality
* Extensible cardinal
* Extension (model theory)
* Extension (proof theory)
* Extension (predicate logic), the set of tuples of values that ...
for the
Mozilla Firefox
Mozilla Firefox, or simply Firefox, is a free and open-source web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation and its subsidiary, the Mozilla Corporation. It uses the Gecko rendering engine to display web pages, which implements curren ...
browser,
it records user actions and saves them in semi-natural language
scripts. The scripts made are saved in a central
wiki
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for sharing with other users.
CoScripter aims at
end-user
In product development, an end user (sometimes end-user) is a person who ultimately uses or is intended to ultimately use a product. The end user stands in contrast to users who support or maintain the product, such as sysops, system administrato ...
s through the use of
programming by demonstration
In computer science, programming by demonstration (PbD) is an end-user development technique for teaching a computer or a robot new behaviors by demonstrating the task to transfer directly instead of programming it through machine commands.
The te ...
, a technique to create automated tasks without using a programming language.
See also
iMacros
iMacros was a browser-based application for macro recording, editing and playback for web automation and testing. It was provided as a standalone application and extension for Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and Internet Explorer web browsers. D ...
- Web browser macro recorder, similar to CoScripter. First release 2001.
References
External links
Old official siteCoscrpter @ Allen Cypher site
Free Firefox legacy extensions
IBM software
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