Actions Overview

Tipeline ships with 30 action categories covering automation, data manipulation, file handling, integrations, and flow control. Each action is identified by a group and a name.

Action Anatomy

Every action in a workflow YAML has the same structure:

- group: string       # action category (e.g. browser, string, http)
  name: string        # specific action within the group (e.g. goTo, replace, request)
  params:             # action-specific parameters
    key: value
  destination: string # optional — variable name to store the result
  onError: throw      # 'throw' (default) | 'continue'
  disabled: false     # set to true to skip this action

Action Categories

Automation

Category	Actions	Description
Browser	56	Full browser automation via Playwright
HTTP	2	HTTP/HTTPS requests via Axios
SSH	3	Remote command execution over SSH
Script	1	Execute arbitrary shell scripts
Sub-workflow	1	Invoke another workflow as a sub-pipeline

Data Manipulation

Category	Actions	Description
String	35	Case conversion, search, replace, templates, URL encoding
Array	20	Parse, join, filter, sort, chunk, flatten, set operations
Object	12	Get/set properties, merge, pick, omit, clone
Math	25	Arithmetic, rounding, statistics, random, range
DateTime	15	Parse, format, add/subtract, compare, validate
Spreadsheet	36	Excel/CSV read, write, formulas, ranges, sheets
HTML	10	Query, extract, parse HTML documents
Variable	1	Set a pipeline variable programmatically

File & Media

Category	Actions	Description
File	12	Read, write, copy, move, CSV, base64
Folder	9	Create, delete, copy, list files
Image	18	Resize, rotate, crop, filters, format conversion
Audio	15	Convert, trim, mix, compress, normalize
Video	24	Trim, resize, convert, watermark, subtitles, GIF
PDF	5	Extract text/images, merge, split, page count
Compression	2	Create and extract zip/tar archives
OCR	1	Optical character recognition
QR Code	2	Generate and read QR codes

Integrations

Category	Actions	Description
AI	1	LLM prompts — OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek
Email	1	Send email via SMTP
Database	3	Connect, query, and close SQL databases
Network	6	DNS, ping, port check, TLS certificate
Cryptography	12	Hash, HMAC, encrypt, base64

Flow Control

Category	Actions	Description
Flow	8	If/else, switch, loops, wait
Approval	1	Pause a run until someone approves or rejects it
System	6	Log messages, run processes, env vars
API	—	Generic API integration

Parameter Templates

Action parameters support two template syntaxes:

# String interpolation (result is always a string)
message: "Hello, {{ username }}!"
url: "{{ baseUrl }}/api/{{ version }}/users"

# Raw injection (preserves original type)
data: "{= parsedObject =}"
browser: "{= browserHandle =}"
count: "{= itemCount =}"

See the Variable System for full details.

Error Handling

- group: http
  name: request
  params:
    url: "{{ url }}"
  onError: continue  # go on even if the request fails
  destination: response

Value	Behaviour
throw	Stop the run and mark it failed (default)
continue	Ignore the error and go on to the next step; the step's result is empty