What’s your go-to scripting language for web automation in 2025?

[mantu_richard]

Hey everyone,
I’ve been experimenting with small automation tasks like scraping, filling forms, and posting content automatically.
I’m curious — what’s your favorite scripting language for automation work these days, and why?
Python used to dominate, but I see more people mentioning JS and Go late
ly.

 

[CPANathan]

Just jump on Make or N8n, you'll learn to code using them and have 90% less struggle

YouTube > Make > YouTube > Make > YouTube > Make = 500 projects automated

 

[justmeseo]

Hey everyone,
I’ve been experimenting with small automation tasks like scraping, filling forms, and posting content automatically.
I’m curious — what’s your favorite scripting language for automation work these days, and why?
Python used to dominate, but I see more people mentioning JS and Go late
ly.

The programming language will never be an issue, but its all about consistency, you can control a browser through CDP anyways, if you feel like you need extra help try a framework (playwright, pypeteer, puppeteer) try to keep consistency and focus on only one language and become proficient at it, hope that helps.

IF you are more interested in a holistic level of automation, I would suggest to stick to nodejs or python if you want more of an all in one solution, python librariers are very well mantained, alternative nodejs its amazing aswell, you can mix scraping with api calling, and much more, the sky is the limit with those two. Go lang is becoming more and more popular lately, but if I was you I will stick with what already works, plus you can build a nice UI CMS backend to manage your automations, you are in safe hands with either in JS or Python.

 

[iactaest777]

Python hands down. Tons of libraries.
JS is also solid choice but as a language is harder than python.

For small&quick scripts python is winner.

 

[SirLouen]

I do a combination of JS and Python depending on what I'm trying to automate.
For example, for Discord, I prefer JS
But for Windows desktop apps I prefer Python (I've been using PyQt)

I would prefer to do everything on Python but the performance is terrible, given how simple JS also is, completely blast py for many tasks.
Also I use a lot PHP for scripting mainly because of pure seniority, but I don't recommend it if you are starting. PHP is the worst language by far, very low performance.

 

[vcc empire]

Hey everyone,
I’ve been experimenting with small automation tasks like scraping, filling forms, and posting content automatically.
I’m curious — what’s your favorite scripting language for automation work these days, and why?
Python used to dominate, but I see more people mentioning JS and Go late
ly.

Hello @mantu_richard !
Python is still my favorite for automation due to its vast libraries like Selenium and BeautifulSoupand readability which is key for quick scripting. Python is the most versatile and beginner friendly for general small scale automation.
Also one reason is the big active community mean you'll always find a solution fast.

 

[astSols]

Python is still the way to go!!!
JavaScript's async nature can be complex to understand for newcomers, and the complexity of scraping rises...
I'm not sure about Go, but I've never used it.

And yeah, n8n/make automations workflow is recommended as well if you want to hurdle over the tech knowledge gap

 

[strikeman]

For web automation — definitely JavaScript.

Most modern sites are built with JS frameworks anyway, so automating them with something like Puppeteer or Playwright just makes sense.

You can handle scraping, form filling, API calls, and even browser fingerprint control — all in one stack.

 

[Olam369]

i commonly Use python but recently i have been using GO for performance, but python is better choice for it's rich libraries almost for everything

have you guys used n8n its the best tool i have ever used form code automation, there is almost nothing you can't do using n8n

 

[bhseoworld]

python is still the king for data processing but for the actual web hitting part u r better off with nodejs . i migrated our whole indexing farm from selenium-py to playwright-node last year and the stability jump was insane modern sites are 90% client-side js anyway , so using a js-based automation tool just handles the hydration and race conditions way more elegantly
one thing people forget abt Go it’s fast for concurrent requests but if ur doing actual browser automation it’s often overkill because the bottleneck is usually the rendering speed of the browser itself or ur proxy latency , not the language engine
pro tip based on my fails
pick nodejs for the scraper and keep python for the data cleaning/analysis backend
if ur not wrapping these scripts in docker ur basically asking for dependency hell when u try to scale on a vps . stay modular or u'll spend more time fixing environments than actually scraping

 

[SweetChilly]

Python and playwright for automatization of tasks. it works faster than selenium, like 10x faster.