JavaScript Automation

Open-source JavaScript projects categorized as Automation

Top 23 JavaScript Automation Projects

  1. bruno

    Opensource IDE For Exploring and Testing Api's (lightweight alternative to postman/insomnia)

    Project mention: Open source alternative to Postman / Insomnia | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-01-31

    How so? In their README they specifically state:

    > Bruno is offline-only. There are no plans to add cloud-sync to Bruno, ever. We value your data privacy and believe it should stay on your device. Read our long-term vision here <https://github.com/usebruno/bruno/discussions/269>.

    I glanced over that github discussion and don't see where they've gone back on that statement. Am I just missing where they've taken the cloud route?

  2. Civic Auth

    Auth in Less Than 5 Minutes. Civic Auth comes with multiple SSO options, optional embedded wallets, and user management โ€” all implemented with just a few lines of code. Start building today.

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  3. semantic-release

    :package::rocket: Fully automated version management and package publishing

    Project mention: The Lost Art of Commit Messages | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-03-25

    > Having commits prefixed by "chore:" or "docs(ui):" aren't that useful.

    I don't use those for humans, I use those for tooling, such as semantic-release. The human-readable bits come after that.

    https://semantic-release.gitbook.io/

  4. Node RED

    Low-code programming for event-driven applications

    Project mention: Hardware Metrics Collection with IOT Devices | dev.to | 2025-04-07

    Node Red is a unique application that provides a graphical programming environment. With this, you can define input to output transformation with any level of complexity, including reading, parsing, formatting, and output with optional conditionals. For example, here is a flow definition that parses MQTT JSON messages that communicate if a node is alive, and then store this information in InfluxDB:

  5. appium

    Cross-platform automation framework for all kinds of apps, built on top of the W3C WebDriver protocol

    Project mention: Software Testing Tasks with Challenges, Tools, and Best Practices | dev.to | 2025-01-09

    Appium: For mobile app automation testing.

  6. metrics

    ๐Ÿ“Š An infographics generator with 30+ plugins and 300+ options to display stats about your GitHub account and render them as SVG, Markdown, PDF or JSON!

    Project mention: ๐Ÿš€ Create An Attractive GitHub Profile README ๐Ÿ“ | dev.to | 2024-06-29

    Metrics this will generate a detailed stats infographic based on your GitHub Profile.

  7. Detox

    Gray box end-to-end testing and automation framework for mobile apps

    Project mention: Must-Know React Native Libraries for Faster Mobile App Development in 2025 ๐Ÿš€ | dev.to | 2025-02-17

    10. Detox โ€“ End-to-End Testing Made Easy ๐Ÿงช

  8. WebUI-aria2

    The aim for this project is to create the worlds best and hottest interface to interact with aria2. Very simple to use, just download and open index.html in any web browser.

  9. InfluxDB

    InfluxDB high-performance time series database. Collect, organize, and act on massive volumes of high-resolution data to power real-time intelligent systems.

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  10. pipedream

    Connect APIs, remarkably fast. Free for developers.

  11. automatisch

    The open source Zapier alternative. Build workflow automation without spending time and money.

    Project mention: Automatisch: Open-Source Zapier Alternative | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-08-07
  12. artillery

    The complete load testing platform. Everything you need for production-grade load tests. Serverless & distributed. Load test with Playwright. Load test HTTP APIs, GraphQL, WebSocket, and more. Use any Node.js module.

    Project mention: How to Profile API Endpoint Performance | dev.to | 2025-04-16

    Popular API load testing tools include k6 from Grafana and Artillery. Both are open source and both also offer a managed cloud offering to make management easier.

  13. Release It! ๐Ÿš€

    ๐Ÿš€ Automate versioning and package publishing

    Project mention: Create and publish an npm library, with TypeScript and Semantic Versioning | dev.to | 2024-09-12

    release-it: Also helps you bump the version, but it's simple to use (no need for CI knowledge); meanwhile, you don't configure it as fully automated.

  14. puppeteer-extra

    ๐Ÿ’ฏ Teach puppeteer new tricks through plugins.

    Project mention: Breaking the 4chan Captcha | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-11-29
  15. browser-fingerprinting

    Analysis of Bot Protection systems with available countermeasures ๐Ÿšฟ. How to defeat anti-bot system ๐Ÿ‘ป and get around browser fingerprinting scripts ๐Ÿ•ต๏ธโ€โ™‚๏ธ when scraping the web?

  16. auto-py-to-exe

    Converts .py to .exe using a simple graphical interface

  17. taiko

    A node.js library for testing modern web applications

  18. mini-graph-card

    Minimalistic graph card for Home Assistant Lovelace UI

  19. free-games-claimer

    Automatically claims free games on the Epic Games Store, Amazon Prime Gaming and GOG.

  20. paperless-ai

    An automated document analyzer for Paperless-ngx using OpenAI API, Ollama, Deepseek-r1, Azure and all OpenAI API compatible Services to automatically analyze and tag your documents.

    Project mention: An automated document analyzer for Paperless-ngx using OpenAI API and Ollama | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-01-07
  21. Gladys

    A privacy-first, open-source home assistant

    Project mention: Gladys Assistant โ€“ Home Assitant, much simpler | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-09-19
  22. ai-renamer

    A Node.js CLI that uses Ollama and LM Studio models (Llava, Gemma, Llama etc.) to intelligently rename files by their contents

    Project mention: Show HN: AI Renamer โ€“ Rename your files with AI | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-03-11
  23. Podgrab

    A self-hosted podcast manager/downloader/archiver tool to download podcast episodes as soon as they become live with an integrated player.

  24. nexrender

    ๐Ÿ“น Data-driven render automation for After Effects

    Project mention: After Effects: 3 Reasons To Use Expression Powered Motion | dev.to | 2024-07-10

    When combined with open source software like nex render, we can automate rendering workflows, and create data driven templates without even opening After Effects.

  25. cavy

    An integration test framework for React Native.

  26. CodeRabbit

    CodeRabbit: AI Code Reviews for Developers. Revolutionize your code reviews with AI. CodeRabbit offers PR summaries, code walkthroughs, 1-click suggestions, and AST-based analysis. Boost productivity and code quality across all major languages with each PR.

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NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).

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    www.civic.com | 19 Apr 2025
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Index

What are some of the best open-source Automation projects in JavaScript? This list will help you:

# Project Stars
1 bruno 32,570
2 semantic-release 21,736
3 Node RED 20,875
4 appium 19,659
5 metrics 14,574
6 Detox 11,419
7 WebUI-aria2 10,080
8 pipedream 9,589
9 automatisch 8,673
10 artillery 8,377
11 Release It! ๐Ÿš€ 8,371
12 puppeteer-extra 6,765
13 browser-fingerprinting 4,271
14 auto-py-to-exe 4,244
15 taiko 3,613
16 mini-graph-card 3,362
17 free-games-claimer 3,213
18 paperless-ai 2,875
19 Gladys 2,794
20 ai-renamer 1,828
21 Podgrab 1,766
22 nexrender 1,692
23 cavy 1,369

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