Top 23 TypeScript Automation Projects
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If you haven’t heard of Puppeteer, it’s basically a NodeJS library that allows you to run (and control) an instance of headless chrome. i.e - an instance of Google chrome without a UI. In this project, I was using it to render PDF exports of reports. Running natively, it worked like a charm. But under docker, well…I’m writing this article after all, aren’t I?
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n8n
Free and open fair-code licensed node based Workflow Automation Tool. Easily automate tasks across different services.
VM hostnames are based off of the VM host and purpose. For example, my n8n VM is called r2s2vm1-n8n (rack 2, server 2, vm 1, n8n).
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OPS
OPS - Build and Run Open Source Unikernels. Quickly and easily build and deploy open source unikernels in tens of seconds. Deploy in any language to any cloud.
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appsmith
Low code project to build admin panels, internal tools, and dashboards. Integrates with 15+ databases and any API..
Project mention: Building a basic app using open-source instead of coding it from scratch? | reddit.com/r/SaaS | 2022-01-14Corteza Project AppSmith BudiBase
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Can you use a breakpoint to see why chromeversion isn't being set? This may be an easier implementation with BS: https://webdriver.io/
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actionsflow
The free Zapier/IFTTT alternative for developers to automate your workflows based on Github actions
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https://github.com/joshfarrant/shortcuts-js, I have extracted it but I have no idea what do do after
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SonarLint
Deliver Cleaner and Safer Code - Right in Your IDE of Choice!. SonarLint is a free and open source IDE extension that identifies and catches bugs and vulnerabilities as you code, directly in the IDE. Install from your favorite IDE marketplace today.
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Using a library such as that one https://github.com/SweetIQ/schemats
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create-pull-request
A GitHub action to create a pull request for changes to your repository in the actions workspace
Unfortunately, due to security limitations, the automated PR that your new upgrade workflow generates will not have GH Actions checks run against it. See issue on the Create PR action discussing this.
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https://github.com/alexta69/metube https://hub.docker.com/r/alexta69/metube
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Project mention: The unexpected return of JavaScript for Automation | news.ycombinator.com | 2021-11-26
One really cool little JS library I've been using for a bunch of desktop automation tasks lately is nut.js and the lower level libnut library it's implemented on top of:
https://github.com/nut-tree/nut.js
https://github.com/nut-tree/libnut
It provides a means to send user input (mouse movement/clicks and key presses) and read and react to changes in visual state (through screenshots), and works across Windows, Linux and MacOS. It automates at a much lower level of abstraction than the approaches mentioned in the article that script against programmatic APIs.
What I really like about this lower level approach is that you don't need to get anyone's permission to automate anything, since there's no programmatic API that the system owners has to provide for you and thus can limit or take away when it becomes inconvenient.
Any task that can be accomplished though looking at stuff on the screen and clicking the mouse and pressing keys on a keyboard (i.e. what a real person would do to accomplish the same task) can be automated, and it's actually surprisingly easy and effective to do this with nut.js. What really helps is that OpenCV has become ridiculously good and ridiculously fast at matching/identifying objects from a screenshot, with latencies usually in the low double digits, so latency-based flakiness isn't nearly as much of an issue as I remember it in the old days. I've also played around with OCR with tesseract but haven't had as much success with it in terms of perf, and remember seeing latencies of several seconds for even recognizing a single word from a tiny pre-cropped screenshot containing only the word itself.
The main tradeoff to this approach compared to automation through APIs is that because it works by simulating real user inputs, it's not very amenable to running in the background while a user is actively interacting with the same machine, so a separate machine or VM is often needed. That's an acceptable tradeoff for some use cases but complete deal breaker for others, so YMMV, but just wanted to bring this cool little tool to people's attention.
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Project mention: GitHub Action for Updating Your Readme with a Download Button | dev.to | 2021-12-05
Update the readme with EndBug/add-and-commit
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Project mention: Testing a new looks for my dashboard. More info in the comments. | reddit.com/r/LovelaceHA | 2021-09-01
Scheduler Card
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Project mention: What's the best way to generate a PDF from html in deno? | reddit.com/r/Deno | 2021-11-08
import puppeteer from "https://deno.land/x/[email protected]/mod.ts"; const browser = await puppeteer.launch(); const page = await browser.newPage(); await page.goto("https://news.ycombinator.com", { waitUntil: "networkidle2", }); await page.pdf({ path: "hn.pdf", format: "A4" }); await browser.close();
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Project mention: Q: How impressed are you by HomeBridge? | A: | reddit.com/r/homebridge | 2021-06-17
I believe this is the plug-in I used: https://github.com/alexgustafsson/homebridge-wol
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bot link- GitHub - Synthesized-Infinity/Whatsapp-Botto-Xre: Lightweight, Efficient & Stable Whatsapp-Botto-Xre built with Baileys.
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project-clippi
An automation framework for Super Smash Bros. Melee. Detect an event → execute an action.
Project mention: We recorded almost every friendly played at Smash Summit 12. Here's approx. 5700 Slippi files (16GB) from the event! | reddit.com/r/smashbros | 2021-12-17Someone put this into project clippi and record all the 80% combos: https://github.com/vinceau/project-clippi
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Project mention: Example of Autohotkey automated unit testing on Github Actions | reddit.com/r/AutoHotkey | 2021-10-17
``` now we need to parse the report, I've been using [action-junit-report](https://github.com/mikepenz/action-junit-report) for that
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.. and it works. Love ngrx-auto-entity :)
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Project mention: Show HN: Puppeteer IDE – Extension to automate web page from browser's devtools | news.ycombinator.com | 2021-12-28
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Automation projects in TypeScript? This list will help you:
| Project | Stars | |
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| 1 | puppeteer | 75,711 |
| 2 | n8n | 19,753 |
| 3 | appsmith | 11,585 |
| 4 | WebdriverIO | 7,283 |
| 5 | actionsflow | 2,291 |
| 6 | shortcuts-js | 1,381 |
| 7 | YoutubeDL-Material | 1,140 |
| 8 | schemats | 899 |
| 9 | create-pull-request | 815 |
| 10 | MeTube | 677 |
| 11 | solidarity | 562 |
| 12 | nut.js | 528 |
| 13 | add-and-commit | 390 |
| 14 | scheduler-card | 335 |
| 15 | deno-puppeteer | 220 |
| 16 | homebridge-wol | 179 |
| 17 | Whatsapp-Botto-Xre | 114 |
| 18 | project-clippi | 113 |
| 19 | action-junit-report | 78 |
| 20 | ngrx-auto-entity | 61 |
| 21 | puppeteer-ide-extension | 51 |
| 22 | mutato | 26 |
| 23 | homebridge-schedule | 25 |
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