No API, no problem

I used Codex Computer Use plus a 1Password service account to pull my latest Real Canadian Superstore order into my grocery archive, even though Superstore doesn't offer an API.

The setup was simple:

• Codex opened the site and navigated the login flow
• op read piped my Superstore username and password to the clipboard
• Codex pasted them into Chrome without printing the secrets
• It opened my order history, grabbed the newest order, and wrote it into my markdown archive in Dropbox

What I like about this is that it works with the website as it exists today. No scraping pipeline to maintain, no unofficial API, no manual copy-paste.

Codex Computer Use also felt faster than Claude's Chrome extension in this workflow, though I haven't tried Claude Computer Use directly, so that's not a fair apples-to-apples comparison yet.

The downside is that it seems to burn a lot of tokens, probably because it's constantly reading screenshots of the page.

It's a good example of where computer use is more practical than waiting for a proper integration that may never come.