Automa

Open-source browser extension for no-code workflow automation

By Nathan KesslerUpdated Jul 27, 2026

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What is Automa?

Automa is an open-source (AGPL, dual-licensed) browser extension for no-code automation, built by connecting workflow "blocks." It handles form-filling, repetitive tasks, screenshots, and website data extraction, with scheduled or triggered runs. The GitHub repo has 21.5k stars. The project's homepage now redirects to goautoma.com, a commercial AI-assisted RPA platform from the same team that adds a cloud workflow builder, on-premise/self-hosted deployment, and enterprise features on top of the free extension.

Our verdict

The free browser extension is a mature, widely-starred option for straightforward no-code automation like form-filling and page data extraction. Teams that need cloud-hosted scheduling, on-premise deployment, or enterprise support move to the paid goautoma.com platform, since no funding or independent scale metrics are disclosed for that side of the product.

Categories:

No-Code Scrapers

No-code scrapers let non-engineers extract data by clicking elements on a page or filling a template, then run the job on a schedule in the cloud. They trade the flexibility of a framework for speed of setup, which suits recurring extraction jobs and teams without a scraping engineer.

Tags:#freemium #open-source #self-hosted #js-rendering #structured-output #screenshots #no-code #browser-automation

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How Automa compares

Browse AI

Browse.ai runs cloud-hosted, no-code robots for web scraping and monitoring, an alternative for teams that prefer not to run automation through a browser extension.

Bardeen

Bardeen is also a browser extension for no-code workflow automation. It connects web actions across apps in a block-based way similar to Automa's.

Axiom.ai

Axiom.ai is a no-code browser extension for automating repetitive web tasks, a close alternative to Automa's extension-based model.