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this list is now archived - look inside https://github.com/sw-yx/brain if you would like an updated list! thank you.

automation

human

fancyhands - US virtual assistant
gethuman - Help for customer service
pickfu - Market feedback from US consumers
Gosquaredaway- military spouse personal assistants

code

reddit bots and their source

HN

SQL social media queries

twitter bots

Self-care Twitter Bots
Make @hydratebot
Wikipedia scraper bot
Year Progress Twitter bot
100daysofcode bot
Tweepy Twitter Bot
Github release -> Twitter bot
Tracery generative story twitter bots: BotWiki, Intro to Twitter Bots, Cheap bots done quick
Google Earth stills over time bot
AWS markov chain bot - js version https://github.com/swang/markovchain
Ace Attorney bot

twint https://nixintel.info/osint/the-attrition-of-information-in-osint-why-acting-quickly-matters-and-how-to-recover-when-you-dont/

small replit twitter bots (usually useless)

scraping

Info from Checkly/Tim Nolet (podcast)

Old: Selenium
New: https://developers.google.com/web/tools/puppeteer (Google), https://playwright.dev/ (ex Puppeteer team left for Microsoft), Headless Recorder from checkly generates scripts for either
learn either: https://theheadless.dev
https://mihaisplace.blog/2021/10/03/the-state-of-web-scraping-in-2021/

misc

Beehive - A flexible event/agent & automation system with lots of bees
DataFire - An open source framework for building and integrating APIs. Each integration provides a set of composable actions. New actions can be built by combining existing actions, JavaScript, and external libraries. They are driven by JavaScript Promises, and can be triggered by a URL, on a schedule, or manually.
Kibitzr - Get notified when important things happen
Netflix Scumblr (#1522) - A web application that allows performing periodic searches and storing / taking actions on the identified results.
Node-RED (#1296) - A tool for wiring together hardware devices, APIs, and online services in new and interesting ways.
NoFlo - A JavaScript implementation of Flow-Based Programming (FBP). Separating the control flow of software from the actual software logic. Helping you organize large applications easier than traditional OOP paradigms, especially when importing and modifying large data sets.
Pico-Engine - A prototype implementation of the pico-engine written in node.js
Riemann - "A network event stream processing system, in Clojure. Riemann aggregates events from your servers and applications with a powerful stream processing language."
RSS-Bridge - A PHP application offering a wide selection of feeds for popular and niche services. This includes several services where queries are involved, such as translating Twitter accounts or searches into atom/JSON feeds. Possibly a valuable source of easy data for simpler Huginn scenarios.
Trigger Happy - "opensource clone of IFTTT, a bridge between your internet services"
Welcomer Framework - Supports building microservices to flexibly automate your online tasks, putting control of your personal data back in your hands.
https://apify.com