Questions tagged [automation]
Software to perform actions by itself without actively being supervised by a user.
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Automate identifying location of flaws
avidemux allows you to mark the start and end and then to delete unwanted frames
This is a most time consuming procedure because the software does not of itself find the "next flawed frame". Most of ...
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Automated full system backup solution that deletes old backup files as needed
I have an external hard drive that I want to use to do full scheduled backups of my PC, but the problem is, I need it to delete previous backups when it needs more storage space automatically. ...
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Windows Tool for automatic regular screenshots
Windows Tool for automatic regular screenshots
Somehow similar to Hourly screenshot taker but for time tracking and so with other requirements:
Lossless image format (preferrably PNG)
multi monitor ...
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Tool for generating test case document from javadoc
I am looking for a tool in Java/maven that can generate test case document from javadoc and merge the test result into it. I am indeed to put the javadoc in front of all integration tests and I want ...
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Python GUI automation library for simulating user interaction in apps
I'm looking for Python library which can help with window automation tasks (either on macOS or Linux).
By automation I mean finding the application/game window, gets the content of it and be able to ...
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Looking for a Overlay UI marking program for screencasting
I make lots of quick gifs but I cannot annotate them that well. The program needs to do following:
Hold Rightclick (or some modifiers + rightclick) on mouse
Draw Strokes
Strokes stay on screen until ...
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Website testing / browser automation tools
I'm looking for a tool, that will automatically performs specified actions such as clicking on links, filling and submitting forms, and so on. I mean I write some kind of script with instructions and ...
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job scheduling and automatization with custom parameters
tl;dr
What I am looking for, basically, is a web interface for cron, where I am able to configure a set of additional parameters.
lets start with some facts:
pre-req's
OS: Ubuntu 12.04 / 14.04
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Software to generate automatic subtitles? (film)
I am new in the video subtitle domain, and I found out that it was maybe possible to accelerate the process of subtitle editing by using softwares able to automaticly generate subtitles with timecode.
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3rd-Party Software for updating my end-user's application
So, We are a small development firm that works developing custom softwares for industrial sites. Normally, we don't need to send patches to our clients and, when needed, it's done in front of the ...
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Automated reverse image search
I'm a huge sucker when it comes to photography, so I tend to download a lot of images and store them locally. Now, because it's often quite a lot I don't always manually do a (quick) reverse image ...
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Detect if a github pull-request on json file is valid?
I've noticed some github repos have an automated process for validating files on pull requests.
For example say there is a JSON file that recieves a pull request. I'd like a setup where the new file ...
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Sorting scanned documents
Hello there Softwarerecs,
is there a bit of software out there, that is capable of sorting scanned documents that have a marker on the page?
What I need is something that can auto sort, based on ...
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Is there an OSS Solution, regarding Application Release Automation?
Is there an OSS Solution, regarding Application Release Automation?
Based on this list:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_release_automation
I see only paid version of this kind of software ...
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Efficiently managing CD importing of med images, PDFs, audios, etc
I work for a law firm supporting almost 100 users in their day to day operations. In addition to my IT tasks I handle all incoming CDs and flash drives that need to be manipulated and then uploaded to ...
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Adjust screen brightness (hardware) based on context
e.g. Set screen brightness to 50% when running a game or
to 30% when watching a youtube video or
to 0% after 6pm.
Hardware brightness (so the actual brightness of the LED's in the display, not ...
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Automate the download of the MP3 version of a show from a subscription-based RSS
I subscribe to a news site that frequently publish a page with a show in an enbeded video (the show) and a link to the MP3 of the show. The page is available to anyone but you need a valid ...
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Software to change the desktop background to the Windows Spotlight background
The Windows 10 Spotlight Lock Screen backgrounds are quite nice, and I would like to see them on my Desktop background in addition to them being on the Lock Screen. I'm looking for software to change ...
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I want to automate a daily task, need certain info from pdf to go into specific areas of an excel file
I’m working at a startup and would like to automate one of my daily tasks.
Currently we receive orders from 3 different distributors in either PDF or Webpage format and I must take some of the ...
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Software for copying articles from a certain website and save them as a word or pdf file
I want a automation software that can do the following.
Triggers:- Email push notification, or manual start up
Follow the links in the email go to the website and copy the article on that link and ...
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On-Premise and on-demand Lab VM
Problem - I am consolidating the management of my company's short-life-Windows-VM needs. I would like to templatize servers loaded up with versions of our software, which could then be repeatedly (and ...
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Is there software or method that can automatically pause and resume screen recording, based on what is my current active window?
For example, pause when I switch to Chrome browser, but resume when I switch to Notepad.
OR
Resume in Notepad AND Visual Studio, otherwise, pause
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Choosing an open source Continuous Delivery solution for programming education
In my Business Informatics Bachelor thesis I have chosen a topic, in which I have to set up a Continuous Delivery (that must be open source) server which students can use in their programming ...
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Open Source Release Automation
I'm searching for a tool/script that'd automate things I always need to do when publishing a new version of my open source library. Like:
npm version [major/minor/patch]
git push --tags
npm publish
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Software to create an automated bot for desktop applications
Please recommend software that can help to write an automated bot that can interact with other desktop applications.
I'm looking for something that can help me write a bot for desktop games.
scan ...
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How can I automate tasks on a website without having access to the back-end?
I'm in need of a software that automates simple repetitive (logic) tasks on a website.
Note: I've looked into some of the website automation libraries out there like Geb and Cucumber but these ...
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Severalnines Clustercontrol Alternative software?
I have been dealing with ClusterControl software to provision MySQL cluster and monitor and scale from last few weeks. But they are not really responsive I tried to reach them to get a quote but they ...
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Automated tests for Chinese browsers: Sogou Explorer, QQ, 360 and Baidu
Is there any possibility to test web apps in these Chinese browsers: Sogou Explorer, QQ, 360 and Baidu? (even one of them would be good)
Of course webdriver would be great but it seems there’s no ...
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Automated system testing and performance measurement for distributed system
I'm looking for a tool/combination of tools which would allow me to do system testing for application spanning multiple hosts.
What I'm looking for:
ability to spawn variable number of application ...
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I need a software for taking pictures from video 1 second after the picture has been changed
I need a video software that can make a picture every time when in the video (live, from camera for example) the picture is changed.
For example we have a scale so when there is nothing on it the ...
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Free alternative for threadfix?
Since threadfix (https://www.threadfix.it/) is not free anymore - is there a free alternative ? Threadfix is software that aggregates various security vulnerability reports and does trending.
The ...
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Software or API that lets us payout a custom amount of money automatically
First of all, we realize that there is some high risk involved here with automatically transferring money.
The idea is that we have a list of tasks all varying in length of completion and value for ...
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software to automate changes to windows and window properties?
Years ago, I used to run sawfish as my window manager. It had the extremely useful feature of making it easy to program window-manager actions when certain events happened (e.g. when a window with ...
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Extract Individual Questions from a pdf and convert to images
I want to extract an image for every question in a .pdf (an exam paper like this) so that they are split up like this:
So for example q1.png for question 1, like above, and again for question 2, 3 ...
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Software for automaticaly create hierarchical treemap from a table
I need to create a hierarchical tree map of energy measurement in multiple buildings.
Like this:
Watermeter #1
Bldg 1 [
Watermeter #2
Water [
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Batch-combining large images
I have a bunch of equal-height images in PNG format that I want to arrange horizontally into a single image, without any overlapping. I need a software that can do this either automatically (e.g. with ...
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3rd party Windows/Mac software to log off computer after x minutes of use
I am looking for a dependable software that I described above.
I know of this because my uni's PC has this kind of timer where it logs off after 30 minutes of quick use.
I need it for Windows, but ...
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A program to make my computer do a certain thing on a website every 30 minutes for two days
So I want to make my computer do a certain thing on a website every 30 minutes, for 2 days straight. I want my computer to post something on a site and the title have to show the time. Does anyone ...
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Automating the conversion of FLAC to MP3
I have a collection of folders, some of which contain .flac files while others contain .mp3 files.
I need everything to be in .mp3, but I don't exactly want to go through hundreds of folders in ...
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Tool to generate resource profiles (internal resumes) from a central database?
I'm looking for a tool/service/solution that can automatically generate employee (resource) profiles (which basically looks like resumes) in Microsoft Word or PDF formats from data fed into a central ...
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Update images in documentation automatically
I'm looking for a tool/software to keep software documentation for a website project always up-to-date.
Especially the images in the documentation, e.g. explaining user masks etc. gets out of sync ...
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OpenSource Security scan tools for REST APIs
I am very new in security testing.
It will be very helpful if any one can suggest open-source/free tools that can run Scans for security issues (E.G SQL Injection) on REST APIs which use JSON ...
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Automate left-clicks (configurable interval + number) on Debian
For cases where I have to left-click many times on the same spot, I would like to have a tool that relieves me from having to do it manually.
Setting it up should be easy, ideally self-explanatory (...
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Software for merging git pull requests on a schedule?
I'm looking for some sort of rules-based or scheduling software that integrates with GitHub.
Features would be:
integrated with GitHub
possible to specify a time limit on Pull Requests (example 24 ...
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Automating GUI operations of Windows applications that are not web-based
Is there an open source application that automates GUI operations? I'd like to automate GUI applications that are not web-based. I want the application to possibly recognize screenshots and ...
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Self hosted service to monitor a HTTP endpoint (for change) and trigger an event
I am looking for a web-based application where you can set up HTTP monitors (to monitor for changes specifically but support for more triggers like HTTP status would also be nice) which then fire REST ...
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Software to automate a phone call, send DTMF tones, and transcribe the responses
I work at a radio station where we have to fill out transmitter logs. We get the values for the logs by making a phone call to an automated system (land-line phone). Here is the process I'm looking to ...
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Applying a generic transformation to a set of files incrementally
Let's say I have a build process where one of the steps is applying a transformation to a bunch of files, such that one source file equals one target file. This could be something like compression, ...
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Quadcopter controller/autopilot with permissive license
Is there an open source quadcopter controller (with or without autopilot) software package (that may run on some given HW) with permissive license (public domain, MIT, BSD etc.) that could be used in ...
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Android and iPhone app automation tools
Please suggest me tools for Android and iPhone app automation testing. I have searched some, like - Appium, Calabash, MonkeyTalk, Selendroid, Robotium, etc.
But, I am confused to choose any one. ...
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