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I have a USB stick 4G modem and I automated the connection setup; it has a web app (starts a small embedded webserver when you plug it in) which I "reverse engineered" and I wrote a small script which makes HTTP requests so I don't need to go to the web interface, login, enter PIN code and click connect every single day multiple times. I just run "telekom connect" and that's it. What a time saver! :D

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That's one thing I love about Vimperator: its macro system. If you can do the steps using the keyboard, you can just start recording and do it once. Next time a simple key combo will repeat your steps.

I've automated logging in to public Wifi networks and filling in many forms with it.

but you still need to open the url in the browser right? which is way slower

I always have my browser open; loading the URL in a new tab (and closing it after) is done by the macro too. So not really :)

I guess it could be slower if the site has many large resources (CSS, images, etc) that a script would not download. But since I do it regularly, most of it is cached anyway.

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