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Top 23 TypeScript Automation Projects
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n8n
n8n is a workflow automation platform for building AI-powered workflows and agents, connecting any AI model to any business system with full control over data, security, and deployment. Build visually or in code while n8n handles infrastructure from prototype to production with fully auditable executions.
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dify
Build Agentic workflows, RAG pipelines, with rich AI model and tool support on one collaborative workspace. Deploy on cloud, VPC, or self-hosted, so teams move from prototype to production without rebuilding the stack.
Project mention: 7 Best Lovable Alternatives in 2026 (When You Need More Than a Prototype) | dev.to | 2026-07-127. Dify
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After the upgrades, TypeScript started rejecting Buffer as a Response body. This wasn't a runtime issue — Puppeteer still returns a Buffer — but astro check (and therefore npm run build) flags it.
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Playwright
Playwright is a framework for Web Testing and Automation. It allows testing Chromium, Firefox and WebKit with a single API.
Browsers are automatable by design. Most agent tools ship their own browser or drive an external one; point Playwright at a page and every element has a stable, queryable handle. The DOM is an accessibility tree wearing a different hat — roles, labels, structure, all there for the reading. For the web, this half of debugging is close to solved.
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appsmith
Platform to build admin panels, internal tools, and dashboards. Integrates with 25+ databases and any API.
AppSmith
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sim
Build, deploy, and orchestrate AI agents. Sim is the central intelligence layer for your AI workforce.
Sim ai is an alternative to Heym
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crawlee
Crawlee—A web scraping and browser automation library for Node.js to build reliable crawlers. In JavaScript and TypeScript. Extract data for AI, LLMs, RAG, or GPTs. Download HTML, PDF, JPG, PNG, and other files from websites. Works with Puppeteer, Playwright, Cheerio, JSDOM, and raw HTTP. Both headful and headless mode. With proxy rotation.
Project mention: hasdata-cli VS crawlee - a user suggested alternative | libhunt.com/r/hasdata-cli | 2026-06-04 -
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appium
Cross-platform automation framework for all kinds of apps, built on top of the W3C WebDriver protocol
Project mention: AI-Native Mobile Device Automation: Give Your AI Agent Eyes and Hands on Real Phones | dev.to | 2026-04-09Appium, Detox, Espresso, XCTest — these traditional mobile testing frameworks are built for humans writing test scripts. They assume you know the screen hierarchy in advance, that you'll write explicit waits, that you'll maintain page objects. They produce verbose, stateful sessions that burn through an LLM's context window before anything useful happens.
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maxun
🔥 The open-source no-code platform for web scraping, crawling, search and AI data extraction • Turn websites into structured APIs in minutes 🔥
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Project mention: I shipped a fix. The PR got closed. And that’s exactly how open source works sometimes 🙂 | dev.to | 2026-02-07
PR for context: https://github.com/triggerdotdev/trigger.dev/pull/3014
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nanobrowser
Open-Source Chrome extension for AI-powered web automation. Run multi-agent workflows using your own LLM API key. Alternative to OpenAI Operator.
Try search on a browser extension store for "AI Chat website" or similar. Also you can check out https://github.com/nanobrowser/nanobrowser.
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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.
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flowgram.ai
FlowGram is an extensible workflow development framework with built-in canvas, form, variable, and materials that helps developers build AI workflow platforms faster and simpler.
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refly
The first open-source agent skills builder. Define skills by vibe workflow, run on Claude Code, Cursor, Codex & more. Build Clawdbot 🦞· APIs for Lovable · Bots for Slack & Lark/Feishu · Skills are infrastructure, not prompts.
Inspired by BulletProof React, I applied its codebase architecture concepts to the Refly codebase.
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open-connector
Open-source auth gateway connecting 1000+ SaaS providers to AI agents through SDK, CLI, MCP, HTTP, and OpenAPI.
Project mention: OpenConnector, an open source alternative to Pipedream/Composio | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-08-06 -
For those interested in this I also recommend autobase, a set of ansible roles for a highly available postgres cluster on hetzner or other clouds: https://github.com/autobase-tech/autobase
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Project mention: Show HN: Magnitude MCP – vision-first browser interaction for Claude Code | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-09-26
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Project mention: How to Build a LinkedIn Outreach Pipeline (Without Getting Your Account Banned) | dev.to | 2026-06-12
What worked was switching to Patchright, a Playwright fork that patches those patterns at the Chrome DevTools Protocol level, before any page JavaScript runs. It was a one-line replacement: import { chromium } from 'patchright' and the rest of the Playwright API stays the same. We paired that with installing real google-chrome-stable in the image instead of relying on bundled Chromium, which gives a more believable TLS handshake. LinkedIn's edge can fingerprint the handshake itself through JA3 and JA4, and bundled Chromium has a slightly different signature from the Chrome a real person runs.
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Project mention: Building and Shipping Mac and iOS Apps Without Ever Opening Xcode | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-07-13
You can as well make it simpler and use those skills:
https://github.com/software-mansion/argent
or
https://github.com/callstack/agent-device
both callstack and swmansion are mostly react native shops but those should work even in native ios/android as well
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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).
TypeScript Automation discussion
TypeScript Automation related posts
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Show HN: OJCP – an open protocol for agent-consumable job data
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OpenConnector, an open source alternative to Pipedream/Composio
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LLM Routers Have Become a Service Category of Their Own
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Show HN: Open-Cowork – an open-source, model-agnostic computer-use agent
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Show HN: Figranium – Open-source visual Playwright control plane (Docker, API)
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Vibium: A CLI Browser Automation Tool
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Show HN: Codify – Terraform for Developer Environments
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Automation projects in TypeScript? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | n8n | 200,807 |
| 2 | dify | 152,203 |
| 3 | puppeteer | 95,460 |
| 4 | Playwright | 94,484 |
| 5 | appsmith | 40,677 |
| 6 | sim | 29,385 |
| 7 | crawlee | 25,403 |
| 8 | appium | 21,855 |
| 9 | Leon | 17,440 |
| 10 | maxun | 17,135 |
| 11 | trigger.dev | 16,033 |
| 12 | nanobrowser | 13,559 |
| 13 | WebdriverIO | 9,816 |
| 14 | openbrowser | 9,508 |
| 15 | artillery | 9,053 |
| 16 | flowgram.ai | 8,362 |
| 17 | refly | 7,484 |
| 18 | shortest | 5,665 |
| 19 | open-connector | 4,477 |
| 20 | autobase | 4,329 |
| 21 | browser-agent | 4,111 |
| 22 | patchright | 4,088 |
| 23 | agent-device | 4,046 |
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