Show HN: Waystone – Browser automation from one recording, no code

Category: devtools

Tags: browser-automation, web-scraping, recording, playwright, cdp, code-generation

Score: 7.5/10 (Innovation: 7, Technical: 8, Documentation: 8, Utility: 7)

Waystone is a browser action recorder that captures a human performing a task on a website and generates a replayable automation bundle with ranked selectors, screenshots, and settle times. It differentiates itself from existing recorders by handling cross-origin iframes, closed shadow roots, canvas clicks via display-list analysis, and exporting to multiple formats including Playwright, Puppeteer, and CDP. The approach replaces LLM decision-making with deterministic facts, making web automation faster and more reliable for scraping and repetitive tasks.

Target audience: backend devs, QA engineers, data engineers, automation engineers

Repository: https://github.com/tiliondev/waystone · Python · MIT · 6 stars

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