Web to CLI (Low-Cost Site Wrapper)

Goal

Create a minimal, low-cost CLI that can navigate and perform selected actions on a target website.

Workflow

1. Scope pages: Only profile the pages the user wants (avoid full-site crawl).
2. Profile HTML (cheap): Use scripts/web_to_cli_profile.py to extract links + forms.
3. Decide auth strategy:
   • Prefer request-based login if form action exists.
   • Use browser automation only when login is JS-only.
4. Generate CLI commands:
   • webcli list, webcli create, webcli update, webcli delete, webcli export
   • Keep commands minimal; add only what user requests.
5. Test on the user’s target site and iterate.

Tools

• Prefer + HTML parsing (low cost).