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Open-source robotic process automation (RPA) tools in 2026

30 open-source projects, ranked by GitHub stars and how recently each was worked on. Skyvern leads with 23k stars, ahead of RobotFramework. 19 had code pushed in the last three months. Most common licenses: MIT (11), Apache-2.0 (10) and AGPL-3.0 (5). Commercial robotic process automation (RPA) tools are listed separately.

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    Droidline KnifeLemon

    Android automation from code. Test your apps on real phones, script the tasks you repeat, run a shelf of phones, or let an AI agent use one, from Python, Node.js, the CLI, HTTP or Appium clients. No ADB, no USB cable, no root.

    Developer tool Experimental You want to test apps on real phones, script repeated phone tasks or let an AI agent use a phone without cabling.

    ★ 445 MIT Go Active, pushed 3 days ago
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    OpenBrowser sheying2013

    本地指纹浏览器 · 多环境隔离 · 代理 / 指纹 / 同步 / RPA

    Complete system Experimental You legitimately manage many separate accounts, for example for ad or store operations, and need isolated profiles.

    ★ 780 MIT JavaScript Active, pushed 8 days ago

All open-source robotic process automation (RPA) tools, ranked

Complete systems you can adopt 10

  1. 1
    Skyvern Skyvern-AI

    Automate browser based workflows with AI

    Complete system Usable You need to automate tasks across many websites without APIs, such as portals, quotes or applications, and selector-based scripts keep breaking.

    ★ 23k AGPL-3.0 Python Active, pushed today
  2. 2
    AstronRPA iflytek

    Agent-ready RPA suite with out-of-the-box automation tools. Built for individuals and enterprises.

    Complete system Usable You need open-source desktop automation on Windows, especially against Chinese business software like Kingdee or YonYou.

    ★ 5.3k Apache-2.0 Python Active, pushed 8 days ago
  3. 3
    autoMate yuruotong1

    Like Manus, Computer Use Agent(CUA) and Omniparser, we are computer-using agents.AI-driven local automation assistant that uses natural language to make computers work by themselves

    Complete system Experimental You want to experiment with an AI agent driving your own PC for repetitive tasks.

    ★ 4k MIT Python Active, pushed 2 months ago
  4. 4
    OpenAdapt OpenAdaptAI

    For EHRs, payer portals, and any app your team clicks through. A person or an agent shows the task; OpenAdapt turns it into a local program that repeats the steps with no model calls, checks each save, and stops when something doesn't match.

    Complete system Usable You have repetitive click-through work in apps without APIs, including over Citrix or RDP, and want deterministic replay rather than an AI agent guessing each time.

    ★ 1.9k MIT Python Active, pushed today
  5. 5
    OpenRPA open-rpa

    Free Open Source Enterprise Grade RPA

    Complete system Usable You want free desktop RPA on Windows with orchestration of several robots.

    ★ 3.1k MPL-2.0 C# Slowing, pushed 7 months ago
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    OpenBrowser sheying2013

    本地指纹浏览器 · 多环境隔离 · 代理 / 指纹 / 同步 / RPA

    Complete system Experimental You legitimately manage many separate accounts, for example for ad or store operations, and need isolated profiles.

    ★ 780 MIT JavaScript Active, pushed 8 days ago
  7. 7
    pbottleRPA leoxiaoping

    pbottleRPA is a professional RPA+AI software for professional users. It supports process automation for both web browsers and desktop client applications, and allows workflow development with JavaScript and Python scripting.

    Complete system Usable You prefer writing RPA as code in JavaScript or Python on Windows and read Chinese documentation.

    ★ 156 MIT JavaScript Active, pushed 8 days ago
  8. 8
    Opencore openiap

    Scalable, secure workflow solution

    Complete system Usable You run OpenRPA robots and need central orchestration and scheduling.

    ★ 354 MPL-2.0 TypeScript Slowing, pushed 5 months ago
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    AI-Employe vignshwarar

    Create browser automation as if you were teaching a human using GPT-4 Vision.

    Complete system Experimental Only as a reference for demonstration-based automation.

    ★ 583 AGPL-3.0 TypeScript Quiet, pushed 3 years ago
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    Open-CUAK Aident-AI

    Reliable Automation Agents at Scale

    Complete system Experimental Only to study agent infrastructure; it is not a safe base for new work.

    ★ 391 Apache-2.0 TypeScript Quiet, pushed 16 months ago

Frameworks and platforms to build on 3

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    RobotFramework robotframework

    Generic automation framework for acceptance testing and RPA

    Framework or platform Production-ready QA or automation teams want readable keyword-style test cases that testers and developers can share.

    ★ 12k Apache-2.0 Python Active, pushed today
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    Browser-agent magnitudedev

    Open-source, vision-first browser agent

    Framework or platform Experimental You want AI-driven browser tests or automations in TypeScript that work from screenshots rather than DOM selectors.

    ★ 4.1k Apache-2.0 TypeScript Slowing, pushed 9 months ago
  3. 3
    WelsonJS gnh1201

    WelsonJS - Built-in JavaScript for Industrial Automation on Windows

    Framework or platform Usable You must automate locked-down Windows machines in industrial settings where installing Node or Python is not allowed.

    ★ 513 GPL-3.0 JavaScript Active, pushed today

Building blocks for your own system 7

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    RobotGo go-vgo

    RobotGo, Go Native cross-platform RPA, GUI automation, Auto test and Computer use @vcaesar

    Building block Usable You write desktop automation or computer-use tooling in Go.

    ★ 11k Apache-2.0 Go Active, pushed 6 days ago
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    Rpaframework robocorp

    Collection of open-source libraries and tools for Robotic Process Automation (RPA), designed to be used with both Robot Framework and Python

    Building block Production-ready You write RPA bots in Python or Robot Framework and want ready libraries for common office tasks.

    ★ 1.6k Apache-2.0 Python Active, pushed today
  3. 3
    RPA-Python tebelorg

    Python package for doing RPA

    Building block Usable You want quick RPA scripts in Python for personal or small-business tasks.

    ★ 5.5k Apache-2.0 Python Slowing, pushed 3 months ago
  4. 4
    Python SDK askui

    Enable AI to control your desktop, mobile and HMI devices

    Building block Usable You need to automate or test interfaces where you cannot use DOM or accessibility selectors, such as embedded screens.

    ★ 557 MIT Python Active, pushed 8 days ago
  5. 5
    Wx4py claw-codes

    微信4.x自动化机器人：群聊机器人、批量群发（支持文件）、批量设置群公告、聊天记录导出、群管理 | 5分钟上手

    Building block Experimental You need to script WeChat desktop tasks on your own account.

    ★ 790 AGPL-3.0 Python Slowing, pushed 7 months ago
  6. 6
    BrowserPilot handrew

    Natural language browser automation

    Building block Experimental Only to study early LLM browser automation.

    ★ 636 MIT Python Quiet, pushed 2 years ago
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    Dendrite-python-sdk dendrite-systems

    Tools to build web AI agents that can authenticate, interact with and extract data from any website.

    Building block Experimental Only for experiments; prefer maintained alternatives for anything new.

    ★ 317 MIT Python Quiet, pushed 2 years ago

Integrations 1

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    AgentQL tinyfish-io

    AgentQL is a suite of tools for connecting your AI to the web. Featuring a query language and Playwright integrations for interacting with elements and extracting data quickly, precisely, and at scale. Includes REST API, Python and JavaScript SDKs, browser debugger.

    Integration Usable You scrape or automate many sites and want element queries that survive layout changes.

    ★ 1.5k MIT Python Active, pushed today

Developer tools 9

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    TagUI aisingapore

    Free RPA tool by AI Singapore

    Developer tool Usable You want free, scriptable RPA for simple repetitive web and desktop tasks without buying UiPath.

    ★ 6.3k Apache-2.0 PHP Active, pushed today
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    Workflow Use browser-use

    ⚙️ Create and run workflows (RPA 2.0)

    Developer tool Experimental You automate the same web tasks repeatedly and want them cheaper and more predictable than running an AI agent every time.

    ★ 4.2k AGPL-3.0 Python Active, pushed 3 days ago
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    OSWorld xlang-ai

    [NeurIPS 2024] OSWorld: Benchmarking Multimodal Agents for Open-Ended Tasks in Real Computer Environments

    Developer tool Usable You research or build computer-use agents and need a standard way to measure them.

    ★ 3.2k Apache-2.0 Python Active, pushed today
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    TestZeus Hercules test-zeus-ai

    Hercules is the world’s first open-source testing agent, enabling UI, API, Security, Accessibility, and Visual validations – all without code or maintenance. Automate testing effortlessly and let Hercules handle the heavy lifting! ⚡

    Developer tool Usable QA teams want to try LLM-driven end-to-end tests described in plain Gherkin.

    ★ 1.2k AGPL-3.0 Python Active, pushed 4 days ago
  5. 5
    Libretto cashew-labs

    The AI toolkit for building reliable browser automations

    Developer tool Experimental You use a coding agent to write browser automations and want them to come out as maintainable code.

    ★ 907 MIT TypeScript Active, pushed 2 months ago
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    Droidline KnifeLemon

    Android automation from code. Test your apps on real phones, script the tasks you repeat, run a shelf of phones, or let an AI agent use one, from Python, Node.js, the CLI, HTTP or Appium clients. No ADB, no USB cable, no root.

    Developer tool Experimental You want to test apps on real phones, script repeated phone tasks or let an AI agent use a phone without cabling.

    ★ 445 MIT Go Active, pushed 3 days ago
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    RobotCode robotcodedev

    Open Source Toolkit for Robot Framework, providing Language Server Protocol support, Debugger, VSCode Extension, PyCharm Plugin and powerful CLI tools

    Developer tool Production-ready You write Robot Framework suites and want proper IDE support.

    ★ 307 Apache-2.0 Python Active, pushed today
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    Unrpa Lattyware

    Extract files from the RPA archive format.

    Developer tool Usable You need to unpack Ren'Py game assets, for example for modding or translation.

    ★ 772 GPL-3.0 Python Quiet, pushed 4 years ago
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    OCR-Form-Tools microsoft

    A set of tools to use in Microsoft Azure Form Recognizer and OCR services.

    Developer tool Usable You maintain older Azure Form Recognizer custom models trained with this tool.

    ★ 540 MIT TypeScript Quiet, pushed 16 months ago

Compared head to head

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Open-source licenses

  • Permissive: 21. Use it anywhere, including in closed products. You keep the copyright notice; Apache-2.0 also grants patent rights.
  • Network copyleft: 5. Like GPL, and running a changed version as a web service counts as distributing it, so its users get the source too.
  • Weak copyleft: 2. Changes to the licensed files must be shared, but you can link them into a closed program.
  • Strong copyleft: 2. If you distribute the program or anything built on it, you must release the whole source under the same license.

Languages

Python 17, TypeScript 6, JavaScript 3, Go 2, PHP 1 and C# 1.

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