Borealis: Visual Automation For Everyone

Borealis is your all-in-one visual automation studio. Whether you want to automate data flows, control your computer, extract data from images, or connect to APIs and webhooks, Borealis turns these advanced tasks into a simple, visual drag-and-drop experience.

🚀 What Is Borealis?

Imagine building automations and powerful data workflows by connecting blocks on a canvas — and having them come to life in real time. Borealis is a cross-platform, live-editable automation tool that makes it possible to create, test, and run workflows with zero coding required (unless you want to).

Borealis combines:

A powerful visual graph editor (built with React Flow)
A real-time backend server (Python Flask + WebSockets)
Optional Python Agent for advanced computer automation (screenshot, overlays, and more)
Live node updates, instant feedback, no restarts required

✨ Key Features

Feature	What It Means For You
Visual Editor	Drag-and-drop nodes to build workflows just like drawing a flowchart
Live Data Updates	Every node reacts instantly as data changes, thanks to a shared “memory bus”
No-Code and Low-Code Friendly	Start with zero code — but add custom nodes if you want power-user features
Hot-Reloading, Developer-Friendly	Add, edit, or even break nodes while Borealis is running. UI recovers, dev server restarts instantly — no crashes, no frustration
Real-Time Computer Automation	Take screenshots, control keyboard, and send actions to your PC with the Borealis Agent
OCR & Computer Vision	Extract text from images and screenshots with Tesseract and EasyOCR, ready to flow into your automation
Data Ingestion & Manipulation	Ingest data from files, APIs, manual input, or other sources — then filter, search, transform, or export it
API Requests & Webhooks	Talk to REST APIs, integrate with web services, and hook Borealis into other tools
Extensible Node Library	Add your own custom nodes or use the included library for data, images, math, logic, reporting, and more
Undo & Resilience	Made a mistake editing a node or the UI? No worries — just fix it and reload. Vite dev server makes changes appear instantly
Cross-Platform	Works on Windows, Linux, macOS — one-click launch scripts included

🧰 What Can You Build With Borealis?

Data Pipelines: Move data between files, APIs, spreadsheets, and apps
Automated Reports: Process and transform information, then export to CSV
Image Analysis: Use OCR nodes to read text from screenshots and images (great for extracting data from anything on screen)
Computer Automation: Trigger keypresses, capture screens, and even run scheduled macros
APIs & Webhooks: Build visual flows that connect to any REST API, fetch data, and process responses
Real-Time Dashboards: Build custom, live-updating dashboards by wiring together data nodes and viewers
Rapid Prototyping: Instantly test ideas — drop in new nodes, see your changes live, and never fear breaking things

🏆 Why Borealis Stands Out

Instant Feedback: Every change is live. No need to restart — just drag, connect, or edit and see results instantly.
No Fear Development: Messed up a node file? UI won’t crash; just fix the file, save, and Borealis will hot-reload it.
Beginner Friendly: If you can use a mouse, you can use Borealis. But it grows with you as you learn.

🔭 Future Potential (What Borealis Could Become)

Borealis is already a swiss-army knife in the works — but here’s just a taste of what’s coming, or at-least possible, thanks to its modular, node-based design:

Smart Automation: Automatically detect patterns, trigger workflows from email, websites, or events.
Machine Learning Nodes: Drag-and-drop AI tasks — run models, analyze data, or classify images/text.
IoT & Device Integration: Control or monitor physical devices, sensors, and smart home gadgets.
Advanced Scheduling: Visual “when/if/then” automation, with scheduling, event triggers, and more.
Multi-User Collaboration: Share, co-edit, or run workflows with others — team automation made simple.
Plug-in Marketplace: Install new nodes and integrations from the community, just like adding apps.
Web Scraping & Automation: Visual web scraping, browser automation, and data collection tools.
Full API/Webhook In/Out: Integrate with Zapier, IFTTT, or any tool that speaks HTTP.

💡 How Borealis Works (In Plain English)

You build a flow by dragging “nodes” onto a canvas and connecting them.
Each node does something — like reading a file, fetching an API, or processing an image.
Live data flows through the graph in real time. Change a value? Every downstream node updates automatically.
The shared “Value Bus” means nodes always see the latest data. No refreshes needed.
Power-users and developers can add their own nodes, or tweak the UI, with changes appearing instantly — even if you make a mistake.

📈 Current Node Library (and Always Growing!)

Data Nodes: Manual input, data passing, array extraction, JSON handling, etc.
Image Nodes: Upload, preview, adjust contrast, grayscale, threshold, export, etc.
OCR Nodes: Extract text from images/screenshots using Tesseract/EasyOCR.
Logic/Math Nodes: Comparisons, math operations, logic gates, and more.
Agent Nodes: Remote screenshot, macro keypress (work-in-progress), automation of foreground windows.
Reporting Nodes: Export to CSV (work-in-progress) (future: other formats).
API/Web Nodes: API requests, regex, text manipulation, etc.
Organization Nodes: Grouping/backdrop for neat, readable graphs. (work-in-progress)

🤝 Who Is Borealis For?

Automation geeks who want a real-time, visual playground
Data analysts who want to prototype and visualize data flows
Developers who want a safe, forgiving testbed for new ideas

🚦 Getting Started

Download Borealis
Run the launcher:
- Windows: Borealis.ps1
- Linux/macOS: Borealis.sh
Open the web UI in your browser. Start building!

🎁 Borealis Is Just Getting Started

Borealis is more than a tool — it’s a playground, a laboratory, and a future-proof platform for any automation you can imagine. Its best features are still ahead, and you can help shape them.

Start automating your ideas, today.

⚡Reverse Proxy Configuration

If you want to run Borealis behind a reverse proxy (e.g., Traefik), you can set up the following dynamic configuration:

http:
  routers:
    borealis:
      entryPoints:
        - websecure
      tls:
        certResolver: letsencrypt
      service: borealis
      rule: "Host(`borealis.bunny-lab.io`) && PathPrefix(`/`)"
      middlewares:
        - cors-headers

  middlewares:
    cors-headers:
      headers:
        accessControlAllowOriginList:
          - "*"
        accessControlAllowMethods:
          - GET
          - POST
          - OPTIONS
        accessControlAllowHeaders:
          - Content-Type
          - Upgrade
          - Connection
        accessControlMaxAge: 100
        addVaryHeader: true

  services:
    borealis:
      loadBalancer:
        servers:
          - url: "http://192.168.3.254:5173"
        passHostHeader: true

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