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Is there any capability to run bots headless on our own infrastructure as opposed to locally?
Yes there is! We do have an on-prem solution. What usually happens is someone builds a bot locally, and once it does the task they need, they talk to us about cloud and on-prem.
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Why couldn't this guy, or girl just program that directly in JavaScript instead of using this product. I don't see making browser automation easier as something which would enable bad people
Certainly - we don't enable something to be done that couldn't be done before. We just make bot-building accessible to more people. Ideally, that means more helpful bots, but it could result in a more bad bots too, if we're not mindful.
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Yes there is! We do have an on-prem solution. What usually happens is someone builds a bot locally, and once it does the task they need, they talk to us about cloud and on-prem.
Follow-up question, can I screenshot webpages that it visits?
Puppeteer (the library which runs our bots) does support this easily, so we may be able to whip something up if you have a sizeable use-case.
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Certainly - we don't enable something to be done that couldn't be done before. We just make bot-building accessible to more people. Ideally, that means more helpful bots, but it could result in a more bad bots too, if we're not mindful.
Browser automation tends to be fairly easy anyway, I can't imagine anyone who wants to build bad bots only does so due to an no code solution.
>using Axiom is 10X faster than writing it in selenium/puppeteer + we handle all the annoying logic you need. We're investigating a node library for this - let us know if it would be useful. As someone who has recently started working with puppeteer, I definitely think a library to alleviate that pain would be immensely valuable.
>using Axiom is 10X faster than writing it in selenium/puppeteer + we handle all the annoying logic you need. We're investigating a node library for this - let us know if it would be useful. As someone who has recently started working with puppeteer, I definitely think a library to alleviate that pain would be immensely valuable.
As a developer about to go down the e2e testing pipeline for our new products and chosen puppeteer, I would also be very interested in this.
https://www.selenium.dev/selenium-ide/
Yes, selenium, and selenium IDE was definitely our original inspiration. (Aside, we built axiom on puppeteer though). I think Selenium IDE is primarily a developer tool. We see axiom as a no-code tool, following the same playbook as zapier and airtable - a 'no-code builder' whose ultimate goal is to create re-usable templates.
Hey congrats Yaseer and team! Exciting to watch your progress.
I'd love to reconnect after YC, the last few months have been fairly hectic, so apologies for dropping off the radar.
I've been following your newsletter on https://taskablehq.com/, looking awesome!