diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index fdc5ebc..b5a7b7f 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ # curlfire -Run curl with the current [Firefox](https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/) cookies. +Run curl with the current [Firefox](https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/) cookies. This is useful for interacting with logged in websites from the shell, without having to manually deal with the login process. The executable `cookiefire` included in this package can be used to extract the cookies from Firefox. @@ -45,6 +45,12 @@ All of these approaches can be time consuming when automating tasks. [Prior to Firefox 57](https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/frequently-asked-questions-firefox-addon), the [remote control extension](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/remote-control/) could be used to interact with the page currently viewed in Firefox from the shell (including outputting the current [document object model](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Document_Object_Model) as HTML). +# Similar projects (and shameless advertising) +Users of this project might also be interested in: + +* [clixpath](https://github.com/talwrii/clixpath) (by author) - an open-source tool for extracting information out of HTML documents in machine-readable JSON using [Xpath](https://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-xpath-19991116/). +* [PhantomJs](http://phantomjs.org/) - a scriptable command-line only browser than can be used to [render the document object model in Javascript based-websites](https://stackoverflow.com/a/9978162) and output more easily processed HTML. + # Copyright This code is distributed under [an MIT license](LICENSE). It contains code adapted from a code snippet in the aforementioned Stack Exchange answer which is also distributed under [an MIT license](SNIPPET-LICENSE) as [stipulated by the Stack Exchange terms and conditions](https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/272956/a-new-code-license-the-mit-this-time-with-attribution-required).