Top 16 'Browser-Autopiloting' Chrome Extensions to try for automating your tedious web tasks in 2025 - Goh Ling Yong
Let's be honest. How many hours a week do you lose to the digital equivalent of watching paint dry? Clicking the same buttons, copying and pasting data from one tab to another, filling out the same forms over and over. It's a soul-crushing cycle of clicks and keystrokes that drains your energy and kills your productivity. We perform these web-based chores on autopilot, but our brains are anything but.
What if you could give your browser the autopilot? Imagine a world where your Chrome browser becomes a tireless digital assistant, handling those tedious, repetitive tasks while you focus on what truly matters—creative problem-solving, strategic thinking, or maybe just grabbing a well-deserved coffee. This isn't science fiction; it's the reality of browser automation, and it's more accessible than ever before. As we look towards 2025, the line between simple extensions and powerful no-code robots is blurring, empowering everyone to reclaim their time.
Here at the Goh Ling Yong blog, we're obsessed with finding tools that provide a massive return on investment for your time. That's why we've dived deep into the Chrome Web Store to bring you the ultimate list of "browser-autopiloting" extensions. These are the tools that will scrape data, fill forms, automate social media, and manage your workflow, turning your browser from a simple window to the web into a powerful productivity engine.
1. Axiom.ai
Axiom.ai is the undisputed heavyweight champion of no-code browser automation. Think of it as a set of digital LEGO blocks for your browser. You can build "bots" to perform almost any sequence of actions you can imagine, from scraping data on a schedule to interacting with website elements, all without writing a single line of code.
Its visual, step-by-step bot builder is incredibly intuitive. You simply "point and click" on the elements of a webpage you want to interact with—like a "Next" button, a data field, or a list of products. Axiom records these steps and can repeat them flawlessly, either on command or on a set schedule. It’s perfect for lead generation, data entry, and e-commerce monitoring.
- Example Use Case: You could build an Axiom bot that opens a list of LinkedIn profiles from a Google Sheet, visits each profile, extracts key information like name, title, and company, and then saves that data back into your Google Sheet. This is a task that would take hours manually but can be done in minutes on autopilot.
2. Bardeen
If Axiom is the powerful industrial robot, Bardeen is the slick, AI-powered personal assistant. Bardeen excels at connecting different web apps and automating workflows between them. Its strength lies in its deep integrations with popular tools like Notion, Google Sheets, Airtable, and Slack, combined with its powerful web-scraping capabilities.
Bardeen uses a "playbook" system. You can use pre-built playbooks for common tasks or create your own with a simple trigger-and-action interface. It's context-aware, meaning when you're on a specific site (like LinkedIn), it will suggest relevant automations. The magic of Bardeen is turning multi-step, multi-app processes into a single click.
- Pro Tip: Use Bardeen’s "Scraper" feature to create a playbook that, when you're on a product page on Amazon, lets you right-click to instantly send the product name, price, image, and link to a dedicated "Wishlist" database in Notion.
3. UI.Vision RPA
For the power users and those who aren't afraid to get a little more technical, UI.Vision RPA is a force to be reckoned with. This open-source tool goes beyond simple click-and-record macros. It incorporates computer vision, allowing it to automate tasks even on complex websites where standard selectors fail. It can read text from images and PDFs and even automate desktop applications.
UI.Vision is more of a full-fledged Robotic Process Automation (RPA) tool that happens to live in your browser. While it has a steeper learning curve than others on this list, its capabilities are nearly limitless. You can use it for automated website testing, complex data extraction from legacy systems, or any task that requires "seeing" the screen.
- Example Use Case: Automate the process of logging into a web application, downloading a daily PDF report, extracting a specific table of data from that PDF using optical character recognition (OCR), and then inputting that data into a web form.
4. Browserflow
Browserflow strikes a beautiful balance between simplicity and power. It allows you to record a workflow—like clicking through pages of search results and collecting data—and then it turns that recording into a repeatable automation. You can easily parameterize your flows by feeding them data from a list or a CSV file.
What makes Browserflow stand out is its focus on making data collection easy. It's designed for scraping data, monitoring websites for changes, and filling out forms in bulk. The interface is clean and user-friendly, making it a fantastic entry point for anyone new to the world of browser automation who needs to work with lists of data.
- Pro Tip: Use Browserflow to automate competitor price monitoring. Create a flow that visits a list of competitor product pages every day and extracts the prices into a Google Sheet, allowing you to track market changes automatically.
5. Web Scraper - Free Web Scraping
Don't let the generic name fool you; Web Scraper is a robust and highly capable tool for extracting data from websites. It's more structured than simple point-and-click scrapers. It allows you to build a "sitemap" that defines how to navigate a website and what data to extract.
This structure is its superpower. You can teach it how to handle pagination (clicking "Next"), how to click into individual product pages from a category list, and how to scrape multiple data points from each page. It can handle complex, multi-level scraping jobs that would choke simpler tools. It's the go-to for serious data gathering projects.
- Example Use Case: Build a sitemap to scrape all real estate listings in a specific zip code from a property website. The scraper would navigate through all the pages of listings, click on each individual listing, and extract details like price, address, number of bedrooms, and the agent's contact info.
6. Instant Data Scraper
Sometimes, you don't need a complex sitemap or a multi-step workflow. You just need the data from a table on a single page, and you need it now. This is where Instant Data Scraper shines. It's the epitome of simplicity.
Navigate to a page with data laid out in a list or table, click the Instant Data Scraper icon, and watch as it uses AI to automatically detect the data, highlight it, and present you with a preview. You can then download the data as a CSV or Excel file with one more click. It's incredibly fast and effective for quick-and-dirty data extraction.
- Pro Tip: Next time you're on a Wikipedia page with a large table of data (e.g., a list of cities by population), use Instant Data Scraper to grab the entire table and drop it into a spreadsheet for analysis in under 10 seconds.
7. Tampermonkey
Tampermonkey is the legendary Swiss Army knife for power users. It’s a userscript manager, which means it lets you inject your own JavaScript code into websites to modify their behavior. This isn't a no-code tool; it's a platform for creating your own automations from scratch or using scripts written by a massive community of developers.
With Tampermonkey, you can do almost anything—add new features to your favorite websites, block annoying elements, and, of course, automate complex tasks. If you can code it in JavaScript, you can probably make Tampermonkey do it. Sites like Greasy Fork host thousands of pre-made scripts for you to install.
- Example Use Case: Find and install a userscript that automatically clicks the "Skip Ad" button on YouTube videos, or one that adds a "Download Video" button to Twitter/X. Or, write your own script to automatically sort your Gmail inbox based on complex, custom rules.
8. Autofill
Form filling is the quintessential repetitive web task, and Autofill is a classic extension that masters it. While Chrome has its own basic autofill, this extension takes it to a whole new level. You can create multiple profiles with different sets of information (e.g., personal, work) and set up powerful rules for how and when forms should be filled.
You can use variables, set country-specific rules, and even execute custom JavaScript after a form is filled. It's a massive timesaver for anyone involved in e-commerce checkout, application submissions, or website testing that requires filling out the same forms repeatedly.
- Pro Tip: Set up a rule in Autofill to automatically check a "Terms and Conditions" checkbox. You can even use its advanced features to select specific options from a dropdown menu every time you encounter a particular form.
9. Superpower for ChatGPT
As we move into 2025, AI is at the core of productivity, and Superpower for ChatGPT is an essential tool for automating your interactions with it. This extension enhances the standard ChatGPT interface with a suite of incredible features that streamline your workflow.
It adds a searchable conversation history, the ability to create and use prompt libraries, options to export conversations, and a "tone and style" selector. It automates the process of managing and reusing your best prompts, effectively turning ChatGPT into a more organized and powerful tool.
- Example Use Case: Create a "Prompt Library" for your most common content creation tasks. Have prompts for "Write a blog post intro," "Generate five Twitter/X hooks," and "Summarize this article." Now, instead of re-typing them, you can access and use them with a single click.
10. EngageAI
For B2B professionals, LinkedIn is a goldmine, but writing thoughtful comments to build relationships takes time. EngageAI uses AI to help you automate this process without sounding like a robot. When you're on a LinkedIn post, you can open EngageAI, choose a tone (e.g., "Insightful," "Supportive," "Questioning"), and it will generate a relevant, high-quality comment based on the post's content.
This isn't about spamming; it's about starting the conversation. You can (and should) edit the AI-generated comment to add your personal touch, but it eliminates the "blank page" problem and drastically speeds up your engagement efforts. I find tools like this are a great example of what Goh Ling Yong often talks about: using technology as a lever to multiply your efforts.
- Pro Tip: Use EngageAI to leave an "Insightful" comment on a post from a key prospect. After you've edited it slightly, follow up with a connection request. This "warm" approach dramatically increases your chances of acceptance.
11. Wildfire
Wildfire is a beautifully simple macro recorder. It takes a different approach from tools like Axiom by focusing purely on recording and replaying your actions. You click "Record," perform a series of actions (clicks, typing, scrolling), and then click "Stop." Wildfire saves this sequence as a "workflow" that you can play back with a single click.
It’s an excellent starting point for anyone new to automation. There’s no complex interface or logic to learn. If you can do the task manually, you can automate it with Wildfire. It's perfect for simple, linear tasks that you perform frequently within a single website.
- Example Use Case: Create a workflow to log in to your project management tool, navigate to the "Today" view, and apply your preferred filter. Run this macro every morning to get your day started in seconds.
12. Session Buddy
Browser automation isn't always about complex workflows; sometimes it's about managing chaos. Session Buddy is a lifesaver for anyone who ends up with dozens of tabs open. It automates the process of saving, organizing, and restoring your browser sessions.
With one click, you can save all your open tabs as a collection. This is perfect for organizing your tabs by project, task, or context (e.g., "Morning News," "Project X Research," "Weekend Fun"). When you need to work on that project again, you can restore the entire session with another click. It also serves as a crash recovery tool, automatically saving your sessions in case Chrome closes unexpectedly.
- Pro Tip: Before shutting down for the day, save your current session as "End of Day [Date]." This not only declutters your browser for a fresh start the next morning but also creates a historical record of your work that you can easily search and reference later.
13. OneTab
While Session Buddy is for managing entire sessions, OneTab is for instant tab triage. If your tab bar is overflowing and your computer's fan is screaming, OneTab is your panic button.
When you click the OneTab icon, it instantly closes all tabs in your current window and converts them into a simple list on a single new tab. This frees up a massive amount of system memory and gives you a clean, organized view of what you had open. You can then restore tabs one by one or all at once. It’s a simple but profoundly effective form of manual automation for resource management.
- Example Use Case: When doing heavy research, you might open 30-40 tabs. Once you feel overwhelmed, hit the OneTab button to collapse them all. Then, go through the list and selectively restore only the most promising links, closing the rest for good.
14. Auto Refresh Plus
Some automation is about passive monitoring. Auto Refresh Plus does one thing, and it does it perfectly: it automatically reloads a web page at a set interval. This is surprisingly useful for a variety of tasks.
You can use it to monitor pages for changes, like a live news feed, a stock ticker, an auction page, or a site that's currently down for maintenance. You can set the refresh interval from a few seconds to several minutes and even have it look for specific text on the page, sending you a notification when it appears.
- Pro Tip: Trying to get a reservation at a popular restaurant or buy a limited-edition item? Set the page to auto-refresh every 5 seconds and enable the "Page Monitor" feature to alert you with a sound the moment the "Book Now" or "Buy" button appears.
15. Liner
Liner started as a web highlighter and annotation tool, but it has evolved into an AI-powered research assistant. Its automation features are subtle but powerful. As you browse, Liner's AI can help you pre-vet information. Hovering over a Google search result, for example, will show you a quick AI-generated summary, saving you the click.
Its core feature is still highlighting, but this data can be automated. You can highlight key passages across multiple articles, and Liner will consolidate them all in one place. Its AI co-pilot can then summarize your highlights, find related information, or help you draft content based on your research. It automates the synthesis step of the research process.
- Example Use Case: While researching a topic, highlight key statistics and quotes across a dozen different articles and blog posts. Then, open your Liner dashboard and ask the AI to "Write a summary of these highlights with citations" to create a perfect foundation for your report or presentation.
16. Tweekle (Fictional/Futuristic Concept for 2025)
Looking ahead to 2025, we can expect more AI-driven social media tools like Tweekle. Imagine an extension that doesn't just schedule posts but actively manages your Twitter/X presence based on your goals. You could set a rule like, "Find 3 relevant conversations in the #MarTech space each day and draft an insightful, non-promotional reply for my approval."
Tweekle would monitor the platform for you, identify high-engagement opportunities, and queue up draft responses in a dashboard. It could also automatically retweet posts from a curated list of industry leaders or send a personalized welcome message to new followers who fit a certain profile (e.g., "has 'founder' in their bio"). This is the future of social automation—strategic, personalized, and semi-autonomous.
- Pro Tip for 2025: Integrate a tool like this with your CRM. Set it to automatically identify when a key prospect posts on Twitter/X and immediately flag it for you to engage with, ensuring you never miss a chance to build a relationship.
Your Browser is Your Co-Pilot
The era of mindlessly clicking through digital paperwork is coming to an end. The sixteen extensions listed above are just the beginning. They represent a fundamental shift in how we interact with the web—transforming our browsers from passive portals into active, intelligent partners.
Don't feel overwhelmed. You don't need to install all of them at once. Start by identifying your single most annoying, repetitive web task. Is it scraping leads? Is it filling out the same report every week? Find the one tool on this list that's designed to solve that specific problem and give it a try.
By investing just a little time to set up these browser autopilots, you can save yourself hundreds of hours in the long run, freeing you up to do the deep, meaningful work that truly moves the needle.
Now, it's your turn. What are your go-to Chrome extensions for automation? Did we miss any of your favorites? Share your top picks in the comments below!
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