Updated October 2026
Automation tools take repetitive work off your hands: moving data between apps, driving a browser, scraping pages, or running jobs on a schedule. The open source ones can run on your own servers, so there are no per-task fees and your data stays with you.
This list covers workflow automation platforms, browser automation and testing libraries, web scrapers, and pipeline schedulers. Every project is licensed, actively maintained, and ranked by GitHub stars.
Ranked by GitHub stars and refreshed daily.
by harry0703
利用 AI 大模型和自动化工作流，根据主题或关键词一键生成高清短视频。Generate HD short videos from a topic or keyword with an automated AI workflow.
by microsoft
Playwright is a framework for Web Testing and Automation. It allows testing Chromium, Firefox and WebKit with a single API.
by puppeteer
JavaScript API for Chrome and Firefox
by D4Vinci
🕷️ The BEST Web Scraping framework that handles everything from a single request to a full-scale crawl! Don't be shy, join here: https://discord.gg/EMgGbDceNQ and follow here for daily tips and tr…
by huginn
Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf. Your agents are standing by!
by usebruno
Opensource IDE For Exploring and Testing API's (lightweight alternative to Postman/Insomnia)
by apache
Apache Airflow - A platform to programmatically author, schedule, and monitor workflows
by fastlane
🚀 The easiest way to automate building and releasing your iOS and Android apps
by ToolJet
Open-source foundation of ToolJet AI - the enterprise app generation platform for internal tools, dashboards, business applications, workflows and AI agents. Build visually, from a prompt, or from …
by appsmithorg
Platform to build admin panels, internal tools, and dashboards. Integrates with 25+ databases and any API.
by conductor-oss
Conductor is an event driven agentic workflow engine providing durable and highly resilient execution engine for applications and AI Agents
by feder-cr
Open-source, self-hosted alternative to OpenAI Dots, Grok Bot. Built to be undetectable by anti-bot systems.
by FujiwaraChoki
Automate the process of making money online.
by assafelovic
An autonomous agent that conducts deep research on any data using any LLM providers
by kestra-io
Orchestrate everything, everywhere. The open-source control plane for workflows across data, infrastructure, business processes and AI agents. Declarative YAML, event-driven, any language, Git-vers…
by simstudioai
Sim is the collaborative workspace to build, deploy, and monitor AI agents and workflows. Used by 100,000+ builders.
by apify
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, an…
by arendst
Alternative firmware for ESP8266 and ESP32 based devices with easy configuration using webUI, OTA updates, automation using timers or rules, expandability and entirely local control over MQTT, HTTP…
by semantic-release
📦🚀 Fully automated version management and package publishing
by PrefectHQ
Prefect is a workflow orchestration framework for building resilient data pipelines in Python.
by temporalio
Temporal service
by coleam00
The first open-source harness builder for AI coding. Make AI coding deterministic and repeatable.
by Skyvern-AI
Automate browser based workflows with AI
by appium
Cross-platform automation framework for all kinds of apps, built on top of the W3C WebDriver protocol
By GitHub stars, the most popular projects on this list right now are MoneyPrinterTurbo, playwright, and puppeteer. The ranking is rebuilt every day from GitHub.
Yes. Workflow tools such as n8n, Activepieces, and Huginn connect apps and run multi-step automations like Zapier does, and you can self-host them. See our Zapier alternatives page for a ranked list.
Workflow automation connects apps through their APIs, for example adding a form reply to a spreadsheet. Browser automation, with libraries such as Playwright or Puppeteer, drives a real browser, which is how you test web apps or work with sites that have no API.
