Browser automation like Ubot and Zennoposter in 2026?

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What are you guys using to automate the web these days? I think UBot is pretty much dead, not sure about Zennoposter.

Playwright and Selenium are used, but the ease of use we had with visual scripting tools is still unmatched.

Currently making such a tool for personal use, but wondering if we possibly have better options out there?
 
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I’m building a tool automate posting on Reddit, telegram,X adult tube sites.. but I still have many problems because many websites don’t offer api such Telegram. I have talked about this project in a thread you can check the latest thread if you want
* sorry for my English;)
 
alex6978 said:
I’m building a tool automate posting on Reddit, telegram,X adult tube sites.. but I still have many problems because many websites don’t offer api such Telegram. I have talked about this project in a thread you can check the latest thread if you want
* sorry for my English;)
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Your english is absolutely fine! Will check out the thread, that sounds interesting.
But I am more focused on Browser automation, which means, not using any APIs!
 
BooSpaceMan said:
Your english is absolutely fine! Will check out the thread, that sounds interesting.
But I am more focused on Browser automation, which means, not using any APIs!
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Sounds good
I’m going to follow this thread
For browser automation you’ll get some problems like speed, every time you have to change the script because most websites change their design and other prblms
Can you share what are the websites you want to automate
 
alex6978 said:
Sounds good
I’m going to follow this thread
For browser automation you’ll get some problems like speed, every time you have to change the script because most websites change their design and other prblms
Can you share what are the websites you want to automate
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Below a sneak peek. Originally was for reddit, but didn't want to use the API. So been developing this for quite some time. Also a buddy of mine wanted to scrape data so this works for him perfectly as well, as he's able to run his automations in a cloud.
So it already works fine, am just trying to see if there's better tols out there or I should keep developing mine.

I know website change, it's a cat and mouse game, we have to adjust once in a while! Nothing wrong with that.
 

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ubot is dead yeah, zenno still gets updates but the learning curve is brutal for what most people need it for

honest answer from the seo side.. i stopped needing general browser automation years ago. for link building the dedicated stuff covers it, GSA SER for the bulk, Xrummer for forums, ranker x for web2.0s. no point rebuilding what they already do << and they handle captchas, emails, proxies for you

for the odd custom thing i used to reach for ubot, now i just describe it to claude or codex and get a playwright script in 10 mins. thats what actually killed the visual tools imo, not that they got worse, just that writing the script stopped being the hard part. if your building your own tool id build it around that instead of a drag drop editor
 
KingNeanderthal said:
ubot is dead yeah, zenno still gets updates but the learning curve is brutal for what most people need it for

honest answer from the seo side.. i stopped needing general browser automation years ago. for link building the dedicated stuff covers it, GSA SER for the bulk, Xrummer for forums, ranker x for web2.0s. no point rebuilding what they already do << and they handle captchas, emails, proxies for you

for the odd custom thing i used to reach for ubot, now i just describe it to claude or codex and get a playwright script in 10 mins. thats what actually killed the visual tools imo, not that they got worse, just that writing the script stopped being the hard part. if your building your own tool id build it around that instead of a drag drop editor
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Thank you that's very useful!
One thing that bothered me was ChatGPT wasn't creating some Playwright script when I gave it a go some time back, as it (rightfully) thinks I am trying to do something that is not allowed in their ToS.

But I will give it another go, possibly add some functionality to automatically generate the workflow using AI, and then the user can adjust as they deem fit.
 
Ubot has been awful since it's first incarnation, now it just looks like a cash grab. Zenno is still decent, including it's anti-detect features, but if you have any programming skills I recommend just learning about web requests, how to automate browsers in a threaded environment, and how to parse html/other text data.
 
Steptoe said:
Ubot has been awful since it's first incarnation, now it just looks like a cash grab. Zenno is still decent, including it's anti-detect features, but if you have any programming skills I recommend just learning about web requests, how to automate browsers in a threaded environment, and how to parse html/other text data.
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I mean, web requests are definitely not the solution in this new world of dynamic websites and fingerprinting. Sure works a lot of the time, but it's nice to have a tool to properly automate a browser!
Playwright and Puppeteer are both amazing at what they do, I just think there must be a better and less technical way to do such things, with hopefully the same power. Not everyone wants to learn js to simply click a few buttons and input text on a website.

Couldn't agree more about Ubot lol, I was a paying user and while it was useful, it always felt so unprofessional.
 
Hey do guys know what tech stacks used for automating the browser games nowadays?
 
BooSpaceMan said:
Thank you that's very useful!
One thing that bothered me was ChatGPT wasn't creating some Playwright script when I gave it a go some time back, as it (rightfully) thinks I am trying to do something that is not allowed in their ToS.

But I will give it another go, possibly add some functionality to automatically generate the workflow using AI, and then the user can adjust as they deem fit.
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yeah the chat versions do that, its mostly how your asking not what your asking. if you say "write me a bot to post on X site" it panics. if you say "playwright script, open this url, wait for selector, fill these fields, click submit, loop over this csv, handle timeouts" its just a coding task and it writes it no problem. describe the mechanics not the goal

also the chat window is the wrong tool for it anyway. claude code or codex sitting inside an actual project folder is a diferent experiance completely, it writes the script, runs it, sees the error, fixes it. i havent opened a chat window for automation stuff in months

and your idea of generating the workflow with AI then letting the user tweak it << thats exactly the right shape imo. thats what ubot should of become and never did. visual editor for adjusting, AI for the first draft. id use that
 
Depends on the task now.
Sites keep changing protection, what works in one browser or antidetect fails in another. Popular tools suddenly stop working on certain targets.
The universal tool is flexibility, knowing several and switching when one gets blocked. You already know Playwright and Selenium, that's plenty of capability to handle most things.
 
Steptoe said:
Ubot has been awful since it's first incarnation, now it just looks like a cash grab.
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I was a pretty good ubot user, and was happy with it at first. Its what i learnt to program on! Wouldn't touch it now right enough. AI and most languages the direct competition of ubot. I always thought that they missed a trick with not being able to import/export to other languages.

It was actually quite a smooth tool to use, and simple enough for the kind of automation you need if you were tieing a couple of system processes together, fire up a vps, and let the ubot exe run.

Now whats the point? you just fire up a prompt on your pc, and all the opening working saving closing is done for you with a prompt inside a piece of ai software! lol its like driving a car, withoutht needing to know how the engine works! :)
 
The best option is still something that’ll run headless, obviously it’s more work since you need to decompile frameworks to fetch hidden endpoints, but it’ll run much more stable compared to selenium or similar libs.
 
Playwright is likely the top pick right now, assuming you’re ok writing code. If you prefer the older click-and-see, low-code style, look at Browserflow, UiPath, or Power Automate. You can also try newer browser agents that use AI, like Skyvern or Browser Use.
 
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