Automately - A scalable web automation API for developers

Hey HN! Creator of Automately here. Although there's not much details on the site because we accepting only early access requests right now I can definitely give you a little more details. Developers will be able to write automation scripts and run them. The automation scripts are written in JavaScript using a custom API. You will be able to submit automation jobs via the Automately API. Your job will be submitted to a powerful cluster and ran as fast as possible. You will be able to interact with websites and do many many other things. Stay tuned for more details :)

@mailarchis had a great point :)

Example automation script:

println("Opening Google");

browser.openPage("http://www.google.com");

browser.waitForSelector("[name=q]", 2);

browser.getElement("[name=q]").sendKeys("Hello World");

println(browser.getTitle());

It's not much of an example we are accepting early access requests though :) You will definitely get more details on automation scripts.

Nice idea. Reminds me of Zapier.

https://zapier.com/

How is this different from IFTTT [0]?

[0] https://ifttt.com/

What would be a few use cases for this?

Please look at selenium webdriver And the webdriver w3c draft API

What's an automation script in this case?