README.md

Toby Automation is a tool that helps automating tedious tasks by mouse-clicking on images or pressing down keyboard keys. Toby is coded mainly with TypeScript and is using Node.js, Robot.js, AutoIt and more.

Required software

• Git
• Node.js (recommended v18.4.0), node-gyp (recommended v9.1.0)
• Go (https://go.dev/)
• AutoIt (https://www.autoitscript.com/) - only available for Windows & recommended on Windows

Installing dependencies

Inside toby-core run npm install

Building and starting the application

1. Start the image search service:
   Inside image-search/src run go build and then run the compiled executable

2. (Optional) If using Windows and want to use experimental mouse moving script (powered by AutoIt), then you should compile the move-mouse.au3 in move-mouse to executable. Move the compiled executable into move-mouse/dist

3. Start the core app:
   Inside toby-core run npm run start to compile Typescript and start the core app
   or run npx tsc to only compile Typescript