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Suchintan Singh
272 posts by Suchintan Singh.
Stories and ideas from the Skyvern team.
September
1 min readNew Credential Integration: Azure Key Vault
I bet you thought our launch week was over last week? Well you’re wrong! Skyvern’s Azure Key Vault integration lets you authenticate into websites while keeping credentials locked away in Microsoft’s secure vault service. No hardcoded passwords, no local secret sprawl — just seamless, enterprise-grade security. This joins the family alongside Bitwarden and 1Password, giving teams flexibility to manage secrets with the provider that fits their stack best. This unlocks a whole new category of
Product Updates
7 min readScraperAPI Reviews and Alternatives October 2025
After years of working with web scraping solutions, I've seen countless businesses hit the same wall with traditional APIs like ScraperAPI. They work fine for basic data extraction, but struggle when you need real browser automation for complex workflows. Modern AI scraping solutions are changing how businesses think about web automation entirely. Let's dig into why ScraperAPI's limitations make it unsuitable for serious automation work and look at better alternatives for 2025. TLDR: * Scrape
Comparisons
7 min readWhat Are Residential Proxies? Complete Overview August 2026
You've likely hit that frustrating wall where your web scraping gets blocked or certain sites just won't load from your location. When residential proxy vs VPN becomes a consideration, you're usually dealing with automation challenges that need smarter solutions than basic scripts can provide. The truth is, residential proxies have become important for anyone serious about reliable web automation, but there's a lot of confusion about what they actually do and when you need them. TLDR: * Resi
Web Scraping & Data Extraction
1 min readLaunch Week Day 4: Browser Sessions
One of the most common requests we’ve heard: “Can Skyvern pick up where it left off?” Until now, every run started fresh—like opening a brand new browser window each time. Clean, but sometimes too clean. Why Browser Sessions? Skyvern Browser Sessions prop up a browser and let you persist the real-time state of the browser This unlocks a whole new category of workflows where context matters: * Deploy code straight into the browser — combine AI navigations and trusty ‘ol code by CDPing int
Product Updates
1 min readLaunch Week Day 3: Workflow Version History
Never lose your favourite workflow setup again! When you’re building workflows, it’s easy to accidentally overwrite a prompt that was working beautifully—or remove a configuration you loved while experimenting with new ones. Until now, once those changes were made, they were gone for good. With Version History, you can now browse through past versions of any workflow and restore the exact setup you want. This makes iterating safer, faster, and way less stressful. How it works * Build your
Product Updates
1 min readLaunch Week Day 2: Meet the Debugger
Running workflows end-to-end makes testing difficult! While autonomy is perfect for B2B workflows in production, when you’re designing a new workflow, it makes testing slow and frustrating. Now, with Debugger, you can run a single block at a time, inspect, tweak, and rerun again—all within the workflow editor How it works * Go to the workflow — a browser will load up right where you need it: in the editor. You will see the play icon next to every block and a browser spinning up on the right
Product Updates
8 min readHow to Automate Purchasing September 2025
After helping dozens of companies cut their procurement costs by 30-50%, I've seen the same pattern: manual purchasing processes that worked fine at small scale become major bottlenecks as businesses grow. Most teams try to solve this with basic scripts or traditional automation tools, only to find they break when a vendor website updates. The companies that succeed are those that implement AI purchasing systems capable of adapting to any website without constant maintenance. Let's break down th
Business Operations Automation
1 min readLaunch Week Day 1: Automating with Skyvern got 50% cheaper
Ask and you shall receive 🤑 We heard you: Skyvern was too pricey! So we went back to the drawing board and found a way to bring costs down. 🚀 From now on, Skyvern steps are 50% cheaper! What changed? 10¢ → 5¢ per step A step = anytime Skyvern visits or scans a page That’s the heartbeat of your automation—every scan, every map, every action. And now, it costs half as much. Which means your automation dollar goes twice as far. Why we’re doing this We’re starting off launch week with a
Product Updates
1 min readNew Feature: Natural Language Loops
🚨 May I have your attention, please! Our most complex feature, ForLoops, got a massive upgrade today If you’ve ever tried to set up a loop in Skyvern before, you know the drill: carefully define the structure, make sure your variables are just so, and pray you didn’t miss a bracket somewhere. It worked and it worked well, but troubleshooting often required coffee, tears, and a minor sacrifice to the debugging gods. Introducing 🥁 Natural Language Loop Values 🥁 Now, you can just say what y
Product Updates
7 min readTurn Any Website into an API: Methods and Best Practices (September 2025)
You're stuck with a website that has no API, and you need data from it regularly. The frustrating reality is that most websites still don't offer APIs, but the good news is that modern web scraping platforms can fill the gap. Let's break down the methods that actually work and the best practices that'll save you from building something that breaks every time the website changes. TLDR: * You can turn any website into an API using AI-powered browser automation, even without native APIs * Tradi
Web Scraping & Data Extraction
9 min readComplete Puppeteer Scraping Guide: Best Practices for September 2025
If you've ever used Puppeteer for web scraping, you likely understand the frustration of your perfectly crafted script break the moment a website decides to move a button or change a class name. We've all been there: spending hours debugging XPath selectors that worked yesterday but mysteriously fail today. The frustrating reality is that traditional Puppeteer scraping with headless Chrome, while powerful, creates brittle automation that requires constant maintenance every time websites update t
Web Scraping & Data Extraction
1 min readNew Drop: Skyvern x N8N Cloud
We're integrated with N8N (Again!) You've seen this announcement once before This time, the Skyvern node is a verified node that you can access via n8n cloud :) n8n is a workflow automation platform that empowers technical teams to build complex, multi-step workflows using their 400+ native integrations. Why Integrate into n8n? There has been a lot of overlap between Skyvern users and n8n users. So, we’ve made an integration that connects the two more easily. Here’s what we know: people of
Product Updates
7 min readSelenium Alternatives: 5 Better Browser Automation Tools in 2025
You've likely spent countless hours fixing broken automation scripts every time a website decides to update its layout with Selenium. If you're tired of the endless cycle of updating XPaths and hunting down new selectors, you're not alone. Fortunately, there are much better Selenium alternatives that can handle these changes automatically. The days of brittle browser automation are behind us, and it's time to see what's actually working in 2025. TLDR: * Skyvern leads with AI-powered automatio
Comparisons
8 min readBest Way to Bypass CAPTCHA for AI Browser Automation (August 2026)
Getting your automation workflows to run reliably means solving the CAPTCHA problem once and for all. Most teams end up cobbling together multiple services, dealing with inconsistent success rates, or watching their scripts fail when they hit sophisticated bot detection. Modern AI browser automation platforms now handle CAPTCHA solving natively, but standalone services and stealth plugins each take different approaches with wildly different results. Let's hop into the four main methods for bypas
Browser Automation
9 min readHow Much Does Enterprise Browser Automation Cost in 2025?
Most companies shopping for enterprise browser automation focus on the monthly license fees, but those represent just 25-30% of your actual costs. The real expenses come from implementation, ongoing maintenance, and the constant fixes needed when websites change their layouts. Traditional Robotic Process Automation (RPA) vendors won't tell you upfront that you'll likely spend $50,000-100,000 annually just keeping your automations running smoothly. In reality, the true cost of enterprise browser
Browser Automation
8 min readBest Open-source Web Scraping Libraries in 2025
Most web scraping projects fail within months because websites change their layouts and break your carefully crafted selectors. The constant maintenance cycle forces teams to choose between unreliable automation or hiring dedicated developers to babysit scripts. Modern open source web scraping solutions promise to solve this, but they each take radically different approaches to handling changing content and anti-bot detection. Let's dig into how six leading libraries stack up when your scraping
Comparisons
August
8 min readBest AI Browser Automation Tools for E-commerce in 2025
There is no end to mundane e-commerce tasks. You spend countless hours on tasks like updating product listings, processing orders, and extracting data and invoices from vendor websites. Fortunately, AI browser automation tools are here to save you as they handle these workflows intelligently, adapting to website changes without breaking like those old, rigid scripts we all remember. The difference now is that these tools actually understand what they're looking at rather than blindly clicking p
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1 min readSkyvern x SOC-2
You might be wondering.. "Isn't Skyvern Open Source?" "Why do they need to be SOC-2 Compliant?" "What's Type 2 compliance"? Our codebase has always been publicly available, meaning anyone could review our security practices. But that's not enough. We conducted an in-depth independent audit, validating that our controls meet rigorous AICPA standards for security, availability, and confidentiality. The assessment covered everything from encryption keys to incident-response workflows, providing o
Company News
7 min readKura Reviews & Alternatives in 2025
Kura AI has been getting attention for its multi-agent approach to browser automation - using three AI agents that debate each action before executing it. As developers building AI automation ourselves, we're always curious about new approaches, especially ones that promise to handle the complex reasoning that makes web automation so challenging. Here's our honest assessment of what Kura brings to the table, where it struggles, and whether it's the right choice for your automation projects. TL
Comparisons
8 min readBrowserbase Reviews & Alternatives in 2025
Browserbase, like other browser automation platforms, is a popular infrastructure solution for running headless browsers at scale. This blog walks through what Browserbase is, its strengths and limitations, and alternatives that might better fit your automation needs. TLDR: * Browserbase is a managed infrastructure platform for running traditional automation frameworks like Selenium and Playwright in the cloud * While it handles infrastructure well, it lacks AI features and struggles with au
Comparisons
7 min readWhat Tasks Can You Automate with Skyvern?
If you've ever found yourself clicking through the same web forms, downloading invoices from vendor portals or copying data from websites day after day, you know how mind-numbing repetitive browser tasks can be. Fortunately, AI browser automation with platforms like Skyvern can save your sanity and free up your time for work that actually matters. TLDR: * AI browser automation with Skyvern uses LLMs and computer vision to handle repetitive web tasks without brittle scripts * Form filling aut
Business Operations Automation
10 min readHow Skyvern Agents Think and Plan Browser Automation Tasks Updated June 2026
Ever wondered why your browser automation scripts break every time a website updates its layout? At Skyvern, we've built AI browser automation that thinks through tasks like a human would, using advanced reasoning instead of fragile selectors that break at the first sign of change. Our agents plan each task step by step, making real-time decisions about what to do next based on what they actually see on the page. No more maintenance headaches when sites change. This is the class of problem Age
Engineering & Research
July
8 min readHow Skyvern Handles Authentication
Ever tried to automate a browser workflow only to get stuck at the login screen? Most AI browser automation tools promise simple workflows, but fail completely at authentication, leaving you manually entering passwords, dealing with 2FA codes and solving CAPTCHAs every time. This guide walks through how Skyvern handles complex login scenarios, from basic username/password flows to multi-factor authentication and CAPTCHA solving, so you can finally achieve true end-to-end browser automation. TL
Engineering & Research
10 min readHow Skyvern Reads and Understands the Web
Learn how AI browser automation uses LLMs and computer vision to create reliable web automation that adapts to website changes, replacing fragile XPath scripts.
Engineering & Research
1 min readWhy Open Source SaaS?
Founders who want 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗲𝗱, 𝗳𝗹𝗲𝘅𝗶𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗼𝘄𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 are doubling down on open-source AI stacks. Here are 8 open-source AI tools launched or majorly upgraded in 2023–24 that can supercharge your business — across product, ops, marketing, and dev — without locking you into anyone’s platform. 👇 1. Llama 2 (Meta): Industry-grade LLM, open and fine-tunable. Build your own GPT-like assistants or AI products without paying API fees — and stay in control of y
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