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I am looking for a software that lets me record and save mouse movement and clic

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Question

I am looking for a software that lets me record and save mouse movement and clicks.

The main feature I need is a random delay between the repeats, but within a preset range. For instance, repeat the recorded actions every [1,30] seconds.

I use Mouse Controller but I cannot set the range of the random delays.

Update with an example of usage:

I use MouseController now in a couple of things. One of them. I have to repeat certain mouse actions every few days in a server and I want to avoid manual work. Why I need the random delay? Because I want to collect data by clicking from an autorefreshed list. If I repeat every 3 seconds, I will take the 1-6-11-16-21 etc point from the list. I want to take the randomly without any pattern. But as I said, this is only one of the reasons.

Explanation / Answer

AutoHotKey is a general-purpose desktop automation scripting environment for Windows. It's open source.

The scripting language is ahem baroque. But it's ok for simple tasks, and there are quite a few snippets on the site that you can use without needing to understand all the nuances.

Mouse Movement & Click Recorder does what it says on the tin. It records an AHK script that you can execute. You can Sleep for a Random time between executions if you want.