SikuliX – Automate what you see on a computer monitor

I used to work with SAP a lot and my employer decided to disable macros. I had some extremely tedious work (making and maintaining PN, woes of the MechE life) so I just wrote a script with SikuliX to automate the work by importing an excel sheet. It easily saved me hundreds of hours of work. And of course I followed the golden rule of automating things, never tell your manager.

If anybody else is seeing the server dying, the project is on github https://sikulix.github.io/

I used this years ago to setup a UI test automation framework for iOS apps in the very first days of iOS, before any commercial products were available. iOS was run in the emulator with Sikuli driving it.

It was very effective, Sikuli was a pleasure to work with and the ability to record the tests and then edit the scripts and make abstractions was invaluable. It was very effective.

Link seems to be dead... but i found:

https://sikulix.github.io/

Wow, I've been looking for something like this for a long time but all I could find was proprietary stuff or not-that-good free alternatives. I'm not being dramatic when I say I feel this is going to change my life, so thank you!

Github for the project: https://github.com/RaiMan/SikuliX1

It seems to have most of the content as the main site (which is down ATM).

Unable to connect ;(

Down right when on HN frontpage?

I have used Sukuli off and on for 9 years, it really is great for quick automation. Thanks to RaiMan for taking it over and improving/supporting it!

I've used this with Jython and I find it very cool and straightforward to use. I think it has potential for automated testing implemented by non-programmers. A potential downside is that I imagine running OpenCL takes a decent bit of GPU power.

It is also more flexible and quicker way to write automation scrips than most of the alternatives. It could be a good alternative to AHK, for instance.

Years ago I used to use SikuliX to automate grinding in MMOs! My first introduction to Python/scripting in general.

Since my gaming days, I have always wondered whether there is software that could exactly track the bit stream of mouse moments at the frequency they are generated.

I was trying to automate complex jump movements in quake 2. Never did figure out how (it was not possible with Sikuli or other popular macro software at the time)

I worked on a government project in which we put a lot of work into making it difficult for automated attacks, after which our automated ui tests were not able to run, I left before a solution was found (if it was) but was arguing that SikuliX was the solution before I left.

Reminds me of a program called SCAR (Shit Compared to AutoRune). It was designed for runescape but was also frequently used for other things.

https://scar-divi.com/oldmanual/

I had great success with SikuliX about a decade ago in automating a native UI.

It worked quite well, though it was processor intensive. The UI for scripting was well done too.

The nice thing about using CV is that the UI can change somewhat and the automation still works.

I've used it to automate a desktop app in the past, a ruby script in the server side running in multiple windows instances doing GUI things… It was like having robots working for us…

Looks good. Plenty of RPA companies flogging this type of technology around at the moment under the guise of 'Intelligent Automation' or 'AI powered Automation'.

I know and like this application for a long time, but I wish it worked just in python instead of jython.

I've used AutoHotKey on Windows a while ago and the boss was impressed

Basically copying from Excel into their own system via an interface

niiice, could-a used this in my last job which I just left yesterday