Browser

With the Browser plugin a bot opens pages, clicks, and fills in forms. Without anything set up it uses a headless browser, which works on a Runner with no screen. For sites that need an account, give the bot a profile: a browser of its own on its Runner that keeps the sign-ins you make in it.

Browser comes from the marketplace, and the bot's Access must allow it. It uses Chrome.

Profiles

Open the bot's direct chat, then Browser under Plugins in the inspector. Its sheet has a Profiles section; + adds one, such as "Work". On the phone, tap Browser in the chat's Details.

Click a profile for its menu:

• Open Browser opens it in a window on the Runner. Sign in to the sites the bot needs; the sign-ins stay in that profile, on that computer only.
• Take Over and Return to Bot: see below.
• Record and Stop Recording: see Record a workflow.
• Take Screenshot posts what the browser shows to the chat.
• Close Browser, and Delete…, which removes the profile and its sign-ins.

While a profile is open, the bot's browser calls go to it. A bot can open its profile itself, after Auto-review. Each row says how the profile stands: Closed, Open, You have control in orange, or Recording in red.

Take over

When a page needs you, such as a captcha, a second factor, or a choice only you can make, choose Take Over. The bot's browser calls wait, its window comes to the front on the Runner, and you do what is needed. Return to Bot hands it back, and the bot goes on from the same page with the same tabs. The bot's other work goes on meanwhile, and Stop in the chat ends the waiting.

Record a workflow

Teach a bot a website task by doing it once. Choose Record on a profile, do the task in the browser, then choose Stop Recording. The recording goes to the chat, and the bot makes a skill of it: it drafts the steps, asks about anything the recording doesn't show, and offers to run it on a schedule. Save the draft to use it.

What is recorded: your clicks, what you type into a field, choices in menus, files you pick (their names only), and the pages you go to, with a screenshot of each step. Passwords, one-time codes, card numbers, and fields marked as secret are never recorded. A secret you saved for the bot is kept as its name, never its value.

When the bot runs the skill, it repeats the steps in the profile, after Auto-review. If a page has changed and a step no longer matches, the run stops with a screenshot and says which step, rather than guessing. A routine can run the skill the same way. Stop ends a run at once.

From another device

The browser runs on the bot's Runner, so you sign in and record there. From your phone or another computer you can still list, add, and delete profiles, take over and return a browser, stop a recording, and take a screenshot. Open Browser reads "Open on" the Runner, and Record works only while the browser is already open on the Runner's screen. Nobody watches or types into the browser from afar.