List of Top Free Open Source & Self Hosted Application for Automation

Automation software designed to reduce human intervention in processes.

Accelerated Text – Automatically generate multiple natural language descriptions of your data varying in wording and structure. Apache-2.0 Java
Actionsflow ⚠ – The free Zapier/IFTTT alternative for developers to automate your workflows based on Github actions. MIT Docker/Nodejs
Activepieces – No-code business automation tool like Zapier or Tray. For example, you can send a Slack notification for each new Trello card. MIT Typescript
ActiveWorkflow – An intelligent process and workflow automation platform based on software agents. MIT Ruby
AmIUnique – Learn how identifiable you are on the Internet (browser fingerprinting tool). MIT Java
Automatisch – Business automation tool that lets you connect different services like Twitter, Slack, and more to automate your business processes (Open source Zapier alternative). AGPL-3.0 Docker
betanin – Music organization man-in-the-middle of your torrent client and music player. Based on beets.io, similar to Sonarr and Radarr. GPL-3.0 Python
ChiefOnboarding – Employee onboarding platform that allows you to provision user accounts and create sequences with todo items, resources, text/email/Slack messages, and more! Available as a web portal and Slack bot. AGPL-3.0 Python
Eonza – Eonza is used to create scripts and automate tasks on servers or VPS hosting. Manage your servers from any browser on any device. MIT Go
Exadel CompreFace – Face recognition system that provides REST API for face recognition, face detection, and other face services, and is easily deployed with docker. There are SDKs for Python and JavaScript languages. Can be used without prior machine learning skills. Apache-2.0 Docker/Java/Nodejs
feed2toot – Feed2toot parses a RSS feed, extracts the last entries and sends them to Mastodon. GPL-3.0 Python
feedmixer – FeedMixer is a WSGI (Python3) micro web service which takes a list of feed URLs and returns a new feed consisting of the most recent n entries from each given feed(Returns Atom, RSS, or JSON). (Demo) WTFPL Python
Headphones – Automated music downloader for NZB and Torrent, written in Python. It supports SABnzbd, NZBget, Transmission, µTorrent, Deluge and Blackhole. GPL-3.0 Python
Healthchecks – Django app which listens for pings and sends alerts when pings are late. BSD-3-Clause Python
homebank-converter – Web app to convert an export bank file to compatible Homebank csv. (Demo) AGPL-3.0 HTML5
HRConvert2 – Drag-and-drop file conversion server with session based authentication, automatic temporary file maintenance, and logging capability. GPL-3.0 PHP
Huginn – Allows you to build agents that monitor and act on your behalf. MIT Ruby
Kibitzr – Lightweight personal web assistant with powerful integrations. MIT Python
Krayin – Free and Opensource Laravel CRM Application. MIT PHP
LazyLibrarian ⚠ – LazyLibrarian is a program to follow authors and grab metadata for all your digital reading needs. It uses a combination of Goodreads Librarything and optionally GoogleBooks as sources for author info and book info. GPL-3.0 Python
Leon – Open-source personal assistant who can live on your server. MIT Nodejs
Lidarr – Lidarr is a music collection manager for Usenet and BitTorrent users. GPL-3.0 C#
Matchering – A containerized web app for automated music mastering. An open-source alternative to LANDR, eMastered, and MajorDecibel. GPL-3.0 Docker
Medusa – Automatic Video Library Manager for TV Shows. It watches for new episodes of your favorite shows, and when they are posted it does its magic. GPL-3.0 Python
MetaTube ⚠ – A Web GUI to automatically download music from YouTube add metadata from Spotify, Deezer or Musicbrainz. GPL-3.0 Python
MeTube – Web GUI for youtube-dl, with playlist support. Allows downloading videos from dozens of websites. AGPL-3.0 Python/Nodejs/Docker
nefarious – Web application that automates downloading Movies and TV Shows. GPL-3.0 Python
OliveTin – OliveTin is a web interface for running Linux shell commands. AGPL-3.0 Go
Patrowl – Open Source, Smart and Scalable Security Operations Orchestration Platform. AGPL-3.0 Python
Podgrab – Lightweight podcast manager and automatic podcast episode downloader. It will monitor podcasts for your and download them automatically whenever a new episode goes live. GPL-3.0 Docker/Go
pyLoad – Lightweight, customizable and remotely manageable downloader for 1-click-hosting sites like rapidshare.com or uploaded.to. GPL-3.0 Python
Radarr – Radarr is an independent fork of Sonarr reworked for automatically downloading movies via Usenet and BitTorrent, à la Couchpotato. GPL-3.0 C#
SickChill – SickChill is an automatic video library manager for TV shows. It watches for new episodes of your favorite shows, and when they are posted it does its magic. GPL-3.0 Python
SiteInspector – Web-based tool for catching spelling errors, grammatical errors, broken links, and other errors on websites. AGPL-3.0 Ruby
Sonarr – Automatic TV Shows downloader and manager for Usenet and BitTorrent. It can grab, sort and rename new episodes and automatically upgrade the quality of files already downloaded when a better quality format becomes available. GPL-3.0 C#
StackStorm – StackStorm (aka IFTTT for Ops) is event-driven automation for auto-remediation, security responses, troubleshooting, deployments, and more. Includes rules engine, workflow, 160 integration packs with 6000+ actions and ChatOps. Apache-2.0 Python
Tube Archivist ⚠ – Your self hosted YouTube media server: Subscribe, download, index, search and play your favorite videos. GPL-3.0 Python
tubesync ⚠ – Syncs YouTube channels and playlists to a locally hosted media server. AGPL-3.0 Docker/Python
WebUI-aria2 – Interface to interact with the aria2 downloader. Very simple to use, just download and open index.html in any web browser. (Demo) MIT HTML5
ydl_api_ng – Simple youtube-dl REST API to launch downloads on a distant server. GPL-3.0 Python
YoutubeDL– Material – Material Design inspired YouTube downloader, based on youtube-dl. Supports playlists, quality select, search, dark mode and much more, all with a clean and modern design. MIT Nodejs
µTask – Automation engine that models and executes business processes declared in yaml. BSD-3-Clause Go