Automatically progress to next page via clicking? (Automation) - scripting

Question

I have a job that requires a lot of tedious clicking throughout a website as part of the workflow. In one step, I click a link, go to the page, then ALWAYS click a link on that page. I wish I could just go to that link directly, as it would greatly speed things up.
Is there a way to do this? Or to very quickly select the correct link?
In my case I have to click edit on an image, and then the next page is a list of ways to edit the image, and the link I click is always the same because we always use the same way to edit an image.

Answer 1

What browser do you use? I have some experience in writing plugins in Google Chrome, but not any other. I don't think the differences are that big really. An example with Chrome:
Create a new folder, and two new files - manifest.json and myscript.js
Code for the manifest.json file:
{
"name": "My awesome script",
"description": "Some description",
"version": "1.0",
"content_scripts": [
{
"matches": [
"http://www.mypage.com/*"
],
"js": [
"myscript.js"
]
}
]
}
Change the "matches" to the pages you want it to inject with you custom script, and change the js file to whatever file you'd like to run. I often tend to include jquery as well (to do this, simply type
"js": [
"myscript.js",
"jquery.js"
]
A way to do this with JQuery/JS could be something like this:
$(document).ready(function() {
var autoLink = $("#imageID").attr('href');
document.location=autoLink;
});
I hope this answered your question.
Edit: To load the script - open the page chrome://extensions/ and select "Load unpacked script" or something like that (I don't have it in english) and select the folder you created. Voila.