Built-in Automation Tasks

🚀 Built-in Automation Tasks

Bflow includes pre-built programmatic tasks for common browser workflows. You can execute them directly without writing JSON flows or scripts.

📋 Listing Available Tasks

To view all built-in tasks and their parameters:

bun tasks
# or
bun task list

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🛠️ Built-in Tasks

1. scrape-hn — Hacker News Scraper

Scrapes the top stories from Hacker News, extracting ranks, titles, points, authors, and link URLs.

# Run with default limit (30 stories)
bun task scrape-hn

# Customize limit and run headed
bun task scrape-hn --limit=10 --headed

Parameters:

• --limit=<number> (default: 30): Number of stories to extract.

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2. site-audit — Performance & SEO Auditor

Audits a webpage’s loading performance, DOM node density, JS heap utilization, layout count, and takes a full-page screenshot.

bun task site-audit --url=https://github.com --screenshot=output/github-audit.png

Parameters:

• --url=<string> (default: https://example.com): Target website URL to audit.
• --screenshot=<path> (default: output/audit-screenshot.png): Destination path for audit screenshot.

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3. form-automation — Automated Form Filler & Tester

Demonstrates automated form filling, field validation, checkbox selection, and submission on a test form.

bun task form-automation --headed

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⚡ Running Tasks from the Interactive Studio

You can also run any built-in task via the Interactive Studio:

1. Launch bun cli.
2. Choose 🚀 Run Programmatic Task.
3. Select your task and enter parameter values interactively!