The Skyvern journal

You've probably experienced the frustration of browser automation scripts that work perfectly until they don't. Your carefully crafted workflows break when sessions expire, forcing you to rebuild authentication flows and debug cookie management issues that shouldn't exist in the first place. The traditional approach of manually handling session persistence creates more problems than it solves, with brittle scripts that require constant maintenance every time a website updates its authentication

You've probably tried automating browser tasks, only to watch your scripts break when websites update. Traditional automation tools rely on brittle selectors that fail when buttons move or forms change, leaving you constantly fixing broken workflows instead of focusing on strategic work. Fortunately, modern AI RPA solutions use computer vision and language models to understand websites like humans do, adapting to changes automatically without requiring constant maintenance. This intelligent app

You are searching for a browser automation tool, but you are still confused if you should opt for tools that follow traditional scripting (Selenium, BrowserStack, etc) or modern AI automation tools, like Skyvern. We'll break down the real differences between Skyvern vs scripts, where traditional scripting still makes sense, and when modern AI-powered approaches actually deliver on their promises. If you're weighing both options for your automation needs, this comparison covers what really matte

Ever spent hours fixing broken Selenium scripts after a website redesign, only to watch them break again the next week? You're not alone: countless development teams waste valuable time maintaining brittle automation that crumbles whenever sites update their layouts. While you might think this maintenance nightmare is part of every browser automation out there, you can still find several modern alternatives that get rid of these headaches entirely. Below, we are sharing a list of AI browser aut

TL;DR - We just gave Skyvern the ability to write and maintain its own code, making it 2.7x cheaper and 2.3x faster. Give it a prompt (or a series of prompts), and the AI will generate and maintain playwright code while it runs. Try out the via Open Source or Cloud 💡 Recap: What is Skyvern? It’s an open source tool that helps companies automate things in the browser with AI. We use computer vision + LLMs to turn prompts into automations that run. We serve both technical and non-technical custo

You've likely experienced the frustration of setting up a web scraping tool only to watch it break the moment a website changes its layout. We've all been there: spending hours writing scripts that work perfectly until the next site update makes them useless. The challenge is that most businesses are still stuck with brittle automation that can't adapt, or they're limited by simple tools that fall apart when faced with complex authentication and changing content. That's where AI powered web sc

You've probably spent hours wrestling with Python scraping libraries that break whenever a site updates. Tools like Beautiful Soup and Selenium were built for a simpler web (one that no longer exists in 2025). Modern websites actively block scrapers with shifting layouts, anti-bot measures, and JavaScript execution that make XPath selectors useless overnight. A scraper that works today can break within days on sites with frequent layout updates or active anti-bot policies. In this post, we'll c

Manual workflows likely eat up half your team's day, clicking through the same browser-based tasks over and over. Fortunately, intelligent process automation tools have finally evolved to the point where AI can actually handle those complex, unpredictable workflows that traditional automation scripts constantly break on. TLDR: * IPA combines AI with automation to handle complex workflows that break traditional scripts * Organizations achieve 50-70% task automation and 20-35% cost savings wit

Most companies need automation that actually works when websites change their layouts. Traditional RPA tools break every time a site updates its design. This forces businesses to choose between expensive maintenance contracts or unreliable automation that fails at critical moments. The newer AI RPA solutions promise to solve this with computer vision and LLMs. The market is flooded with options that vary wildly in performance and cost. This guide covers which tools deliver on their AI promises

Skyvern’s open source project just got faster. 🚀 We’ve swapped out Poetry for uv — the blazing-fast new Python package manager. That means your builds are now: * Much quicker — installs and resolves dependencies in a fraction of the time. * Simpler — no more waiting around for environments to set up. * Future-proof — leveraging modern tooling to keep the developer experience smooth. What this means for you 1. Clone and build Skyvern like before — only now it’s way faster. 2. Contribu

Skyvern’s new Sequential Runs feature makes sure your workflows play nicely together — no more parallel runs stepping on each other’s toes or logging you out unexpectedly. This builds on our mission to make automated browsing reliable at scale, especially when authentication or session-sensitive sites are involved. Here’s what it unlocks: * Session-safe execution — runs now queue up and execute one after the other, so you never lose your login mid-workflow. * Predictable automation — no mor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

You’re tired of manually logging into dozens of vendor portals every month, hunting down invoices, and downloading them one by one. It’s repetitive, eats up hours of your team’s time, and slows down your entire accounts payable workflow. That’s exactly where Modern AI steps in. Instead of your team wasting effort on low-value, click-heavy tasks, modern AI can automatically download invoices from any vendor portal, and keeps working even when websites update their layouts. Here’s how intelligent

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

🚨 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

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

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

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

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