Can a bash script refresh a wegpage?

[Logansfury]

Hello,

I was trying with online resources to acquire a bash script that would work with my xdotool and auto refresh a specific Chromium tab for me.

The script I got however always returns it's built-in Tab with name not found error.

Is such a script possible? I would like it to run once a minute until stopped if it's doable. The page I want to refresh has the tab name:

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Thanks for reading,

Logan

[1000]

It depends ...

- The browsers sometimes allows you to use keyboard shortcuts, but the browser must be open.
So, then you can use tools like xdotool.

- xdotool probably allows you to control the mouse cursor, which will click for you.

[motoryzen]

*nods to 1000 *

Indeed. Here's how my google chrome browser launches which includes youtube.com. Youtube.com for my setup is the 2nd browser tab...Thus..one ctrl+tab keypress combo to change focus to that exact webpage/tab,

( where alt+super+c is the keyboard Cinnamon hotkey combo to launch google chrome browser)

So if the tab/webpage you want is the 2nd in the open tab/pages list from left to right..open....then it would be whatever keyboard shortcut key combo you want to use to launch chromium ( let's pretend it's alt+super+c )...so similarly to below ( you may need to adjust the number values below to slightly higher if you're not on a hardcore fast internet connection (shrugs)...

xdotool key "alt+super+c" sleep 1 key "Ctrl+Tab" sleep 0.33 key F5

If you prefer that specific webpage/tab be the third or fourth one out of 3 or 4 tabbed pages opened.... instead of " key Ctrl+Tab ". ...shorter to do " keydown ctrl sleep 0.3 key Tab key Tab sleep 0.3 keyup ctrl " ( two " Tab " s for moving over two webpage/tabs. 3 for 3..etc )

** Note ***
The " f " in " F5 " must be capitalized or it won't execute that simulated keypress *** or you could also do instead of " key F5 " ... " key ctrl+r " same thing imo.

Incase you don't have a list of all or the majority of key-translations of xdotool. Let me know and i'll hook ya up

[Logansfury]

Hello!

This sounds very good! For cases where the Tab isn't consistently the 2nd or 3rd etc, is there a scripted way to open the tab by its name?

[Koentje]

Are you working in the same browser on another tab at the moment you want it to be refreshed?
Or are you doing other stuff outside the browser? And when doing other stuff, is that specific tab active/open?

[Logansfury]

Are you working in the same browser on another tab at the moment you want it to be refreshed?
Or are you doing other stuff outside the browser? And when doing other stuff, is that specific tab active/open?

Most likely I would be doing things outside the browser. I had a python3 script that was working well for focusing chromium but I hadn't got as far as getting it to recognize a specific tab.

[Koentje]

If you ask me, it seems pretty annoying if you are doing other stuff and the script lets the browser focus, switch tabs and reload them every so seconds while doing other things?!
Isn't there some add-on for the browser that does the refreshing without focussing the browser?

[Logansfury]

If you ask me, it seems pretty annoying if you are doing other stuff and the script lets the browser focus, switch tabs and reload them every so seconds while doing other things?!
Isn't there some add-on for the browser that does the refreshing without focussing the browser?

I hadn't thought of that, ill look into chrome extensions.

[Koentje]

Seems there are enough refresh extensions!

[Logansfury]

That will certainly get me started!

Thank you

[Logansfury]

Hello,

I was trying with online resources to acquire a bash script that would work with my xdotool and auto refresh a specific Chromium tab for me.

The script I got however always returns it's built-in Tab with name not found error.

Is such a script possible? I would like it to run once a minute until stopped if it's doable. The page I want to refresh has the tab name:

Linux Mint Forums - Index page
forums.linuxmint.com


Thanks for reading,

Logan