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I love iMacros! It’s one of the best web macro recorders around.

I hate iMacros! The only way to make them into a standalone executable is to use iOpus’ own iMacros player, which has a license fee attached – even though I’ve already paid quite a bit for the full iMacro recorder (before iMacro for Firefox came out).

OK, so iMacro for firefox is a great tool, but what if I want to share the macro, as a paid product? Well, I’d have to record in Firefox, and then pay the license fees for iMacros player.

So I’ve decided to write myself a converter, to turn the macro into a self-contained executable, which can be run via a double-click on a desktop icon. (Actually, from a technical point of view, the converter turns it into another language, which I then manually turn into a self-contained executable via another tool).

I’ll be using my converter to help write PromotionBot – I can record the macros in the free iMacros for Firefox, or in my purchased iMacros for IE, to make the recording of the macros really very quick and accurate. Then I can convert them into the same programming language which I’m using to write PromotionBot, and that’s the bulk of the work done for that particular macro. At that point I simply need to edit the code a bit to integrate into my main PromotionBot code, and I’m done.

So, a question for you: If I were to offer this as a service (take an iMacro script, and turn it into a self-contained executable), would you be interested in using the service? (It’ll be a one-off fee per script).

Let me know your thoughts…

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