Sikuli

Name: Sikuli
Rating: 4.4 (5 reviews)

Desktop automation tool using image recognition to identify and automate GUI elements.

Free • Open Source
Task Automation App

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Avg rating of 4.4 (5)| 5 comments

What is Sikuli?

Sikuli is a visual technology to search and automate graphical user interfaces (GUI) using images (screenshots). The first release of Sikuli contains Sikuli Script, a visual scripting API for Jython, and Sikuli IDE, an integrated development environment for writing visual scripts with screenshots easily. Sikuli Script automates anything you see on the screen without internal APIs support. You can programmatically control a web page, a desktop application running on Windows/Linux/Mac OS X, or even an iphone application running in an emulator.

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Web ClipperSave any page or content from the web with a single click with Sikuli.
Support for scriptingSikuli supports scripts and macros to automate or customize tasks.
OCRExtract the text from a screen capture or file and paste it into another document for edits.

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LicensingOpen Source (MIT) and Free product.
RatingAverage rating of 4.4
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joelandrigan

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Top positive comment• ago

The good:

Sikuli can do anything that a user can do on a computer from the mouse, keyboard and monitor.
It's OS agnostic. (Java!)
It has a built in IDE that's reasonably easy to use.
The syntax is very simple (Python!)
You have the full power of Jython . . . which essentially means you have all of Python and all of Java working for you
It has the ability to match images on the screen. (This is really the core of the program, and it works very well.)
You can adjust how exactly it matches the images on the screen. (Default is 70% match, but you can go as high as a 99% match.)

The bad:

The IDE isn't fast. (It's a Java program, so this isn't really a surprise)
It's not entirely obvious how to work with Sikuli from a different IDE. (There are examples for some of the more popular ones, but not for Atom, VIM, or VS Code.) Most of the code is very simple, but saving from another IDE can mess up the screenshots.
Sikuli sometimes recognizes a "match" for an image on the screen that is incorrect. (This can be adjusted to correct for this, but can result in unexpected behavior)

The Ugly:

The IDE will sometimes freeze for long periods of time. (5+ minutes) I typically just shut it down and restart it when that happens. Frequent saves are a must!

Verdict: Sikuli is a long way from perfect, but it's better than anything else that will work on non-windows computers.

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yuryapollov

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Top positive comment• ago

Any task you can do on a computer can be scripted with Sikuli and thus automated. Awesome!

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TBayAreaPat

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Review• ago

.jar installation file. You will need to be willing to mess with Java to use this.

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nedab

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Positive comment• ago

I use it all the time in my computer breaks to do automated tasks.

Tip: If you need more flexibility you can do an application with winforms, java, etc and trigger its GUI buttons with sikuli. In that way you have the power of sikuli and the power of that other programing language. Thus you can automate more things and faster.

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adsafgv

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Positive comment• ago

Free, open source, simple to use.

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