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skyvern

by Skyvern-AI

Skyvern automates tasks in a web browser by using AI language models and computer vision to read pages and decide what to click or type. It offers a Playwright-compatible Python and TypeScript toolkit and a no-code workflow builder, so people can automate websites without writing site-specific scripts.

Worth a lookEstablished, with a few things to check (listed below).

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Stars
23.3k +7 a day
Licence
AGPL-3.0
Runs on
Your computer
Setup
Moderate
Language
Python
Age
976 days

What you can do with it

  • Tell the browser in plain English to log in, click through pages and fill in forms
  • Extract structured data from websites into a defined format
  • Build and run repeatable multi-step browser workflows in a no-code interface

Make money with it

A freelancer could offer browser-automation services to small firms, such as automating their back-office portal tasks, and charge for setup and upkeep.

An idea, not financial advice. Check the licence before charging for anything built on it.

Ways a business could use it

  • Automate repetitive data entry, form filling or portal downloads that staff currently do by hand
  • Collect structured information such as prices or listings from supplier or competitor websites

Can you use it commercially?

Free to use. Anything you distribute that includes it must be open-sourced under the same licence. Running it as an online service also counts, so a hosted version must offer its source.

Not legal advice. Read the project's licence file before building a product on it.

Getting it running

Install with pip (pip install "skyvern[all]" then skyvern quickstart) or run it with Docker Compose after adding an LLM API key to the .env file.

Follow the official instructions in the project README.

Things to check

  • Licensed under AGPL-3.0, which has obligations if you offer it as a network service
  • Needs an API key from a paid LLM provider, so running costs apply
  • Automating third-party sites may breach their terms of service
  • Some features such as anti-bot tools, proxies and CAPTCHA solving are only in the paid cloud version

Checked 01 Nov 2026. Summary drafted by AI from the project's README.

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