Awesome Browser Automation

A curated list of awesome browser automation tools and resources.

Browser automation is the act of executing actions automatically in a web browser for testing, web scraping or to perform repetitive tasks faster. Specialized software is usually required to do this. This software may control an external browser or be a browser itself.

Contents

• Tools
  • Related
• Articles
• Resources

Tools

• Axiom - No code browser automation tool, like Zapier.
• Browserflow - Chrome extension to automate your local browser or in the cloud.
• Capybara - Driver-agnostic tool and DSL to write automation tests in Ruby.
• Chromedp - Browser automation through Chrome DevTools Protocol fully implemented in Go.
• Codeception - PHP end-to-end testing with BDD style.
• CodeceptJS - BDD style tests with support for multiple headless browsers.
• Cypress - E2E testing for JavaScript through a browser.
• Endtest - Cloud-based codeless automated testing.
• Erik - Headless browser for functional tests in Swift, based on WebKit and Kanna.
• Katalon Recorder - A solution to kick-start test automation for small companies & start-ups.
• FrontendRobot - Codeless testing on the web.
• Mechanize - Programmatic web browser emulation in Python.
• Nightmare - High-level browser automation built on top of Electron.
• QAWolf - Create Puppeteer tests by recording actions .
• PhantomBuster - Automate web scraping and actions without coding.
• PhantomJS - Headless browser for Node.js.
• Playwright - Cross-browser web automation platform for Node.js.
• Puppeteer - High level API in Node.js to control Chrome.
  • Browserless - Complementary library for Puppeteer with sensible defaults, adblocker and pooling.
  • Puppeteer-Firefox - Experimental support for Firefox using Puppeteer.
  • Puppeteer-Extra - Plugin support for Puppeteer and several plugins including reCAPTCHA and adblocker.
  • Headless Recorder - Chrome extension that records your browser interactions and generates a Puppeteer or Playwright script.
  • Pyppeteer - Unofficial port of Puppeteer to Python.
• Selenium - Suite to automate multiple browsers in different platforms.
  • PHP-Webdriver - PHP Client for Selenium/WebDriver.
• SimpleBrowser - Browser automation engine build on .NET.
• Splinter - Python abstraction of existing browser automation tools with a high-level API for testing.
• TestCafe - Full end-to-end testing environment supporting multiple browsers.
• Watir - Ruby library for automating tests powered by Selenium.
• WebdriverIO - Webdriver bindings to Node.js that lets you control a browser.
• WebParsy - Web scraping library and CLI using Puppeteer and YAML.
• Wendigo - Test-oriented automation tool built on top of Puppeteer.

Related tools

• Cheerio - jQuery implementation in Node.js for DOM emulation.
• jsdom - DOM implementation in Node.js to emulate real browsers.
• Node-crawler - Web Crawler/Spider for Node.js using server-side DOM.
• Postman - API requests and development tool with automation options.
• Spectron - Test Electron apps using WebDriver.
• X-Ray - Web Scraper with composable API and extra drivers.

Articles

• Cucumber Browser Automation - Guide for BDD testing using Selenium with Cucumber.
• Guide to Web Automation - Guide covering different tools and techniques for web automation.
• Martin Fowler - PageObject - An article describing the basic concepts of page object pattern.
• Modern Web Automation With Python and Selenium - Tutorial for getting started with Selenium in Python.

Resources

• Awesome Selenium - Curated list of Selenium resources and related tools.
• Awesome Web Scraping - Comprehensive list of tools, programming libraries and web services used in web scraping.
• HeadlessBrowsers - Detailed list of multiple headless browsers.
• Webdriver Specification - Standard definition of agents to control a browser.