Support steps for applications without command-line interface (interact with the GUI?)

[GideonBear]

I want to suggest some general feature

Topgrade should... be able to update things that cannot be updated via a CLI (like Steam games & other game launchers' games, Jetbrains toolbox & Jetbrains IDE plugins, etc. All non-open source software that can only be updated via the GUI)
This could be done by interacting with the GUI; At that point it should probably be a separate application.

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This is extremely far-fetched, but I needed to express my dissatisfaction (not directed at the topgrade developers) of not being able to update a lot of things installed on my PC automatically (automatically like via topgrade/a script, not automatically like in the background. I can do that for most of these, but I don't like that). I wanted to open this issue as a discussion point for how it could theoretically be solved.

[SteveLauC]

Theoretically, if there is an interface we can use for that, then this is implementable. Otherwise, we could do nothing.

For the listed applications, I don't know such an interface exists for them so I couldn't help with that. 😢

[GideonBear]

Theoretically, if there is an interface we can use for that, then this is implementable. Otherwise, we could do nothing.

For the listed applications, I don't know such an interface exists for them so I couldn't help with that. 😢

Yes, most of the time there's just an update button, so with a bit of OCR and pre-defined positions and text it could be possible. I was wondering as well, if it might be possible to read out the GUI structure itself, in a way akin to what you do with web scraping/automation with Selenium? But I have nowhere near enough experience with native GUIs to even know if that's possible.