00:01 Automate anything on Chrome browser for free with Automata. 01:57 Automate browser tasks easily with Automa 03:46 Automate your browser with Automa for various tasks 05:42 Automate browser actions with triggers and nodes 07:30 Automate browser actions with Click element node 09:23 Automate browser form input and search 11:14 Creating an Amazon scraper workflow 13:11 Using Global variables in browser automation 15:04 Setting variables to push information to tables in the workflow 16:56 Automate browser to retrieve and save data efficiently 18:35 Automate web browsing with Automa for easy data scraping and scheduling. 20:10 Join the free AI automation Mastery Program to learn how to automate your life.
Thank you for this video. I'm an Android user who loves Tasker for automating my phone. I've been looking for something similar for my Windows PC, and I think Automa might be just what I need. I'm looking forward to your future tutorials on using Automa to automate my PC since I use Chrome for my works and entertainment.
Dude, this is awesome. Thank you! I can't wait to test it at work. I already tested it at home and it works just fine. But at work, I need it more ...for now.
Looks like a powerful, useful tool! Just a few thoughts. 1. Like all chrome extensions, you have to be careful. Don't want to run some unsafe flows . 2. I dislike those "page load wait" actions. Theres just so much overhead. Can't wait to build automation using AI prompts instead. 3. The browser providers are in a good position to provide this "agent" funtionality since they could train AI models based on all the user interactions.
All points you mentioned already exist since years. For the "wait" action, you have to, because I you go to a website and try to get a specific form field called "name" of the form called "theForm", you have to ensure that the form itself is already loaded on the page, otherwise you'll have a "fail" in the workflow saying that the element does not exist. Also, for the last point, a lot of website has "pages analyzers" where they can generate heatmaps to see users behaviors, etc ... Of course, typing your passwords in this type of workflow must be avoided and prefer developing this kind of logic with code that let you put credentials in "environment files" with key-value pairs and reference them in the code directly.
Explanation is so nice... it looks so simple... trying to do.. we feel the difficulty. Yet nicely done. Crisp to the point. Need some tutorials which help scrape within a workflow and use them for input in different controls like dropdown list, radio buttons, check boxes, expand javascript links to expose hidden data and then scrape. Great tool. Will join you on Skool. All the best.
Thanks for the video. That tool is amazing. I recently watched your Google maps scraping tutorial. It would be great to figure out how to use this in the tool in conjunction with a spreadsheet, full of search criteria and generate a spreadsheet of the resulting leads.
And Also one more thing as you can see as soon as you run it. It does not update the existing it creates a new row when you run it is there a way to now let that happen like for example when you first run it only extarcats the name of the product but lateron when you run again it again created a new row and input the rest of the details like the name and all in the next row Hopw you get it what I am trying to say.
Your content is great man, I've learned a lot from your videos. I know you mentioned n8n previously (it's also one of my favorite tools). Do you see this replacing your n8n use cases? Or would you say you mostly use Automa for scraping and n8n for all your other automations?
Looks extremely interesting I'm definitely going to look into the automa. PS: Do you know anyone that might be interested in a thumbnail design? I've seen a lot of creators that are trying to get their ideas across, but don't have the time to focus on portraying it nor learning about the details and skills that it takes. I'm offering to do a complete analysis of the target audience, already existing audience, personality and idea of the creator. So that I can create this ideal thumbnail with my existing skills, but also the things that I still have to learn.
I really like it but I am not sure what to use it for. It seems powerful but can it do loops and run through IDs in a external excel for example to scrape date for more than just one ID? Because I do not see how this does anything faster than I can do it manually? I definitely look forward to seeing more
I am not a professional in this but I want something to make my work easier. Basically I have a paid subscription to a Yoga video website that uses RUclips streaming and embeds it into their site. I can go into developer mode and easily get the RUclips video ID and that's the manual way I have been doing so far. I would like to automate that and get the final video playing on RUclips itself. This is because the platform that I am supposed to watch it on is buggy and disconnects if the streamer has errors, whereas YT is much more robust. It is super annoying cuz it takes like 2 minutes to refresh and get to the stream again while on YT it stays Live.
Hey. Great tutorial! Quick question though: how would you use a condition to see if the now price is lower than the previous one and, if it is, notify me? Thanks!
If you're scrapping data to Google sheets, you can create a script inside the Google sheets that will check the difference in pricing every day and detect if the price is lower than previous day, and send you an email
Please make more tutorial videos from Automa the resources to learn about it are quite few, can you do some specific cases and share the process so we can learn. Thank you.
I spent a long time trying to learn microsoft power automate. The software is painfully slow, clunky, and hard to use. Cannot tell you how stoked I am to have found this. Hoping it doesn't go away anytime soon.
Excellent video, I am subscribed and I clicked thumbs up! Question: Does this tool send anything to the Internet? I want to make sure that all of my data is local and not going off into some cloud provider running this automation. Can you confirm?
So for some reason my comments and replies won't show up 🤔... but let me try for the last time... open-source doesn't necessarily mean safe, and data collections can be sketchy. On top of that, never trust any free code or extensions.
@@jabirjaleel375did you read throu the code? Open source means that the code is just public not that it's safe and not malicious. Are you sure that they are hosting the same code as their open source one? Maybe they injected some tracking code. The term "opensource" means nothing.
this comment is 2 weeks old atm, the guy in the video did mention that it was open source, people mention that as well as a reply to ur comment, is that a random comment out of paranoia u have or u have something u can argument with?
Hell everyone ive been trying to use automa to force my webmail to select a certain email sender to override the default one but because the button is a tiny button within a larger button the pointer does not see it, it only sees the larger button hiding the smaller one - any suggestions???
Have you tested this in Firefox? Element selector does not run in Firefox. Your headine says 'Browser' not Chrome. And in Chrome you don't click the nodes you double click them. Your mistake? Assuming your audience.
It's great. I have some use cases in my mind. But for that I have some question: 1. Does it have any loop function? Like the one you showed as global variable, can I set an array, then loop through this array with each value. If so, then it will be helpful. Each time changing the variable manually is not realistic use case. 2. Does it offer if else function? like if a variable match a pattern, do something, else do some other thing?
Great video. Maybe some of the good marketplace automations you found would be a good video and also ones to use as a ideas for templates or sequence templates.
Hey amazing video van you please guide me of i want to run multiple google chrome profiles at once so how can i do that? Actually i want this to automate for my Facebook pages where i can upload fb reels in bulk woth different Facebook accounts
I think yes, but selenium is as good as you in programming, best part there is no capatcha, there is no login each time, I do scrape with it, and with undetected_webdriver, and it's so much pain, it does the job, but to build it, and each time maintain the errors, so the more your scraper is complex the more the pain, I think with this tool a lot of that pain already reduced
Looks useful, however I feel it's too much of a security risk when considering the permissions it requires and the fact that Automa's for sale according to their website ("Think your company would benefit from owning Automa? Please send your offer") ... I don't want my security sold to the highest bidder. Good video though, I would've tried it if not for that.
I know Automa for a long time but I found it very hard to understand how to make loop scraping and nested scraping link For example, loop all over google drive links, open each link and download the file
@@BGdev305 Browser headless mode is a feature that allows a web browser to operate without a graphical user interface (GUI). In headless mode, the browser can perform automated tasks without displaying the web page to the user.
this is crazy... do you think it is possible to create an extra set of nodes to that amazon scraper automation, to bring in that data onto a website somehow? like, to have dynamic product information updated periodically with this automation, to update the website's data. not sure how efficient this would be. that was just the first idea that came to mind when i saw you explain that amazon scraper lol.
You could have the scraper save the data to a database or even create a simply API.. that would be your source and from there you could create ANYTHING from it.
Yes, you need to logged in already, then automate it, it uses your browser where everything is already saved, so when you open a website, you will be already logged in in that website cause you already do that before.
hey, great video, I tried this and it worked wonderfully but right now I am facing a problem. The problem is that I filled a form using this tool but when I clicked on a button one warning pop up popped on the top of the screen I can't use the click element on that because when I go to the automa to start the select element(target button) so I can select the ok button on the pop up and when I go back to the webpage the pop up disabled. So I tried to use enter key which works when I click but when I use press key for that it doesn't work. Can you help me in this
can this work with pahge nation can you make a video showing how to broues pages selecting content , and loopping throght all the pages can this software do that
Hi i'm trying to loop a form search but is not working. It needs to read a name fill the form, do the research, copy some value, and start again with the next name. Can u help me? thanks :)
Hey brother super sick video. This is actually super clutch for my business. That said, do you know if it’s possible to set it up where it can scrape multiple pages at a time. Each page it scrapes would have the same data, so it would need to be able to create multiple rows and put multiple rows into the storage.
Great video But Why your video is lagy then ur voice Also I have a suggestion Can you make an automation where If we provide a topic then it will create images , context to be able to upload to different social medias like Linkedin , Instagram Facebook and automatically upload it to the respective platforms
Yes, would be very nice to see how to scrape for example a blog with the same text structure (heading, date, body etc.) on one and the following sites.
ive got it to open my google sheets via url...how do i get it to go to and open cell A1 which has a url in it, open the url and then get it to go to A2 and perform that same task again (open url)
One way I think of it is that it can be automated pretty much like the scripts that are made for Logitech or razer gaming mouse, i.e. you can send specific keystrokes that the bot will perform to do what you want. Every specific cell can be reached by entering Ctrl+J, typing the name of the cell, and pressing Enter. From there, Ctrl+C to copy the URL, Ctrl+T to open a new tab, and Ctrl+V to paste the URL, Enter to finish and load the page. It can be further expanded from there
00:01 Automate anything on Chrome browser for free with Automata.
01:57 Automate browser tasks easily with Automa
03:46 Automate your browser with Automa for various tasks
05:42 Automate browser actions with triggers and nodes
07:30 Automate browser actions with Click element node
09:23 Automate browser form input and search
11:14 Creating an Amazon scraper workflow
13:11 Using Global variables in browser automation
15:04 Setting variables to push information to tables in the workflow
16:56 Automate browser to retrieve and save data efficiently
18:35 Automate web browsing with Automa for easy data scraping and scheduling.
20:10 Join the free AI automation Mastery Program to learn how to automate your life.
cheers mate
Thank you for this video. I'm an Android user who loves Tasker for automating my phone. I've been looking for something similar for my Windows PC, and I think Automa might be just what I need. I'm looking forward to your future tutorials on using Automa to automate my PC since I use Chrome for my works and entertainment.
This is SUPER POWERFUL! Please post more videos on Looping and how this could be used for Regression Testing.
Dude, this is awesome. Thank you! I can't wait to test it at work. I already tested it at home and it works just fine. But at work, I need it more ...for now.
did it work?
@@unstoppablesaad1978 Hi. Yes, it works but I can't make shortcuts work and idk why.
Wow, this is sooo useful! Please provide more tutorials on Automa. I love it!
Looks like a powerful, useful tool! Just a few thoughts.
1. Like all chrome extensions, you have to be careful. Don't want to run some unsafe flows .
2. I dislike those "page load wait" actions. Theres just so much overhead. Can't wait to build automation using AI prompts instead.
3. The browser providers are in a good position to provide this "agent" funtionality since they could train AI models based on all the user interactions.
All points you mentioned already exist since years. For the "wait" action, you have to, because I you go to a website and try to get a specific form field called "name" of the form called "theForm", you have to ensure that the form itself is already loaded on the page, otherwise you'll have a "fail" in the workflow saying that the element does not exist. Also, for the last point, a lot of website has "pages analyzers" where they can generate heatmaps to see users behaviors, etc ...
Of course, typing your passwords in this type of workflow must be avoided and prefer developing this kind of logic with code that let you put credentials in "environment files" with key-value pairs and reference them in the code directly.
This is literally the most useful video i have ever watched!!!!
Powerful tool that is very useful for me. Thank you for sharing!
Explanation is so nice... it looks so simple... trying to do.. we feel the difficulty. Yet nicely done. Crisp to the point. Need some tutorials which help scrape within a workflow and use them for input in different controls like dropdown list, radio buttons, check boxes, expand javascript links to expose hidden data and then scrape.
Great tool. Will join you on Skool. All the best.
This is a game changer! I can think of so many use cases after watching this
Been looking for something like this, thank you!
Thanks for the video. That tool is amazing. I recently watched your Google maps scraping tutorial. It would be great to figure out how to use this in the tool in conjunction with a spreadsheet, full of search criteria and generate a spreadsheet of the resulting leads.
i am sold . i like the way you explain ...so simple
Great video, very informative! Keep up - you explain things really good! Would be great to see what else can you use it for
And Also one more thing as you can see as soon as you run it. It does not update the existing it creates a new row when you run it is there a way to now let that happen like for example when you first run it only extarcats the name of the product but lateron when you run again it again created a new row and input the rest of the details like the name and all in the next row Hopw you get it what I am trying to say.
Simply add a module to GET the table or SHEET's next available row
Thank you for the putting video. could you show an example of how to clink on a drop down selection?
We're in April, but Mike is probably already my best RUclips discovery of 2024... thanks for the great stuff
Your content is great man, I've learned a lot from your videos. I know you mentioned n8n previously (it's also one of my favorite tools). Do you see this replacing your n8n use cases? Or would you say you mostly use Automa for scraping and n8n for all your other automations?
Great content, thanks. I look forward to some other uses of Automa.
Looks extremely interesting I'm definitely going to look into the automa.
PS: Do you know anyone that might be interested in a thumbnail design? I've seen a lot of creators that are trying to get their ideas across, but don't have the time to focus on portraying it nor learning about the details and skills that it takes. I'm offering to do a complete analysis of the target audience, already existing audience, personality and idea of the creator. So that I can create this ideal thumbnail with my existing skills, but also the things that I still have to learn.
It's not just for Chrome (as implied in the video), it's also on Firefox.
I really like it but I am not sure what to use it for. It seems powerful but can it do loops and run through IDs in a external excel for example to scrape date for more than just one ID? Because I do not see how this does anything faster than I can do it manually? I definitely look forward to seeing more
I am not a professional in this but I want something to make my work easier. Basically I have a paid subscription to a Yoga video website that uses RUclips streaming and embeds it into their site. I can go into developer mode and easily get the RUclips video ID and that's the manual way I have been doing so far. I would like to automate that and get the final video playing on RUclips itself. This is because the platform that I am supposed to watch it on is buggy and disconnects if the streamer has errors, whereas YT is much more robust. It is super annoying cuz it takes like 2 minutes to refresh and get to the stream again while on YT it stays Live.
Mike! u are a diamond gem of youtube! ❤
Hey. Great tutorial! Quick question though: how would you use a condition to see if the now price is lower than the previous one and, if it is, notify me? Thanks!
If you're scrapping data to Google sheets, you can create a script inside the Google sheets that will check the difference in pricing every day and detect if the price is lower than previous day, and send you an email
Please make more tutorial videos from Automa
the resources to learn about it are quite few, can you do some specific cases and share the process so we can learn.
Thank you.
Thank you for this very useful video!
Bro when I go on click element and click on selector, it doesn't show up on any tab to get the css. It does nothing. what am I doing wrong ?
Same
Spectacular tool! Thanks for sharing :)
I spent a long time trying to learn microsoft power automate. The software is painfully slow, clunky, and hard to use. Cannot tell you how stoked I am to have found this. Hoping it doesn't go away anytime soon.
It seems it went away already :(
Quite the playground. Reminds me of using Windows Macro tools a lot in the past... thanks
brilliant - yes, more web scaping wth multiple cards on one page and pagination, please
Great Job!! Can you do a tutorial on Solving Recaptcha ?
thanks dude this is amazing
Please make a full tutorial video for this extension
Excellent video, I am subscribed and I clicked thumbs up!
Question:
Does this tool send anything to the Internet?
I want to make sure that all of my data is local and not going off into some cloud provider running this automation.
Can you confirm?
l also want to know this @Mikepowers
So for some reason my comments and replies won't show up 🤔... but let me try for the last time... open-source doesn't necessarily mean safe, and data collections can be sketchy. On top of that, never trust any free code or extensions.
The plugin looks interesting but the company that makes it looks sketchy. Be careful who you give your trusted data.
Isn't this open source tho?
Its an open source project
@@jabirjaleel375did you read throu the code? Open source means that the code is just public not that it's safe and not malicious. Are you sure that they are hosting the same code as their open source one? Maybe they injected some tracking code. The term "opensource" means nothing.
this comment is 2 weeks old atm, the guy in the video did mention that it was open source, people mention that as well as a reply to ur comment, is that a random comment out of paranoia u have or u have something u can argument with?
@@sapient4474 I mean tbf open source doesn’t always mean no sketchy stuff - take for example the xz backdoor
Super useful ty for sharing
Dude you saved my day...god bless you and best wishes from new Sub
Finally someone does a tutorial on thus
great video mike!
Thank you for your video, It really helps me a lot!
So, it's something like puppeteer without the code?
Not really. You can use puppeteer in the context of an entire application, which makes it vastly more capable.This thing is cool though.
Any chance of you doing a workflow that include conditions.
If field value contains 0. Then action 1
If field value contains 1.0, then action 2
Hell everyone ive been trying to use automa to force my webmail to select a certain email sender to override the default one but because the button is a tiny button within a larger button the pointer does not see it, it only sees the larger button hiding the smaller one - any suggestions???
Have you tested this in Firefox? Element selector does not run in Firefox. Your headine says 'Browser' not Chrome. And in Chrome you don't click the nodes you double click them. Your mistake? Assuming your audience.
So it's basically like puppeteer but with a visual UI
Can it solve CAPTCHA?
It's great. I have some use cases in my mind. But for that I have some question:
1. Does it have any loop function? Like the one you showed as global variable, can I set an array, then loop through this array with each value. If so, then it will be helpful. Each time changing the variable manually is not realistic use case.
2. Does it offer if else function? like if a variable match a pattern, do something, else do some other thing?
Did you pay attention to the very first part of the video? It has a loop module. It also has where you can do a json object.. key:value at @13:09
We Need More tutorials Bro ( scrolling, do specific filters and more stuffs)
Is it FREE or PAID extension? One more thing! is it possible to enter data loaded from table, csv or xlsx files?
you are a gem
What a great explanation!
I loved the video, thanks! How do I turn the table into a.csv file and save it to my hard drive?
AWSEOME!! Thank you soooooo much heheh
This is very useful! thank you!
well just a questio, do people sell cusom blocks of this?
Great video. Maybe some of the good marketplace automations you found would be a good video and also ones to use as a ideas for templates or sequence templates.
Thank you this is valuable
Hey amazing video van you please guide me of i want to run multiple google chrome profiles at once so how can i do that? Actually i want this to automate for my Facebook pages where i can upload fb reels in bulk woth different Facebook accounts
Better than Selenium?
I think yes, but selenium is as good as you in programming, best part there is no capatcha, there is no login each time, I do scrape with it, and with undetected_webdriver, and it's so much pain, it does the job, but to build it, and each time maintain the errors, so the more your scraper is complex the more the pain, I think with this tool a lot of that pain already reduced
I have a question here how to create a workflow on a page containing a dropdown menu and calendar?
Hallo, i am trying to scroll but not working why?
Insane,thanks mate!
Great video! Thank your for this awesome content
yeah, but how safe is it in privacy terms?
Looks useful, however I feel it's too much of a security risk when considering the permissions it requires and the fact that Automa's for sale according to their website ("Think your company would benefit from owning Automa? Please send your offer") ... I don't want my security sold to the highest bidder. Good video though, I would've tried it if not for that.
man this is so cool. than you for sharing this tool!
This is very powerful.
I know Automa for a long time but I found it very hard to understand how to make loop scraping and nested scraping link
For example, loop all over google drive links, open each link and download the file
Great job! Thank you 🙏
This is gold man! Especially for scraping, I really have to try it out. Can it work on headless mode?
What is headless mode for a browser?
@@BGdev305 Browser headless mode is a feature that allows a web browser to operate without a graphical user interface (GUI). In headless mode, the browser can perform automated tasks without displaying the web page to the user.
this is crazy... do you think it is possible to create an extra set of nodes to that amazon scraper automation, to bring in that data onto a website somehow? like, to have dynamic product information updated periodically with this automation, to update the website's data. not sure how efficient this would be. that was just the first idea that came to mind when i saw you explain that amazon scraper lol.
You could have the scraper save the data to a database or even create a simply API.. that would be your source and from there you could create ANYTHING from it.
Wow, this is sooo useful!
Scheduled Workflows works if you dont have the browser open?
Yes, it'll work
@@browserautomate How? I tried it and it doesnt work
Hi, it is possible to extract into excel after creating the flow?
can you make a video on how we can automate facebook and instagram outreach with this tool
Damn the potential of this is huge. Does this also work with websites where you have to be "logged in"?
Yes, you need to logged in already, then automate it, it uses your browser where everything is already saved, so when you open a website, you will be already logged in in that website cause you already do that before.
hey, great video, I tried this and it worked wonderfully but right now I am facing a problem. The problem is that I filled a form using this tool but when I clicked on a button one warning pop up popped on the top of the screen I can't use the click element on that because when I go to the automa to start the select element(target button) so I can select the ok button on the pop up and when I go back to the webpage the pop up disabled. So I tried to use enter key which works when I click but when I use press key for that it doesn't work. Can you help me in this
Mike you are blowing up would love to collab and beta test your products for my online solar biz!!!
epic mate! How can i run multiple scrapes fully automated?
text is easy, how to grab product image? and what about pagination?
click element - select an element does not work
Been using automa since the last 2 months can you make video about loops? Cant seem to utilize the loop block in automa since. i use javascript
Drinking game: take a shot every time he says workflow
(You will blackout)
I love this
can this work with pahge nation can you make a video showing how to broues pages selecting content , and loopping throght all the pages can this software do that
This extension is so powerful !!!
is it possible to make a workflow and then loop that thing until you tell it to stop? trying to spam some requests to a website.
Hi i'm trying to loop a form search but is not working. It needs to read a name fill the form, do the research, copy some value, and start again with the next name. Can u help me? thanks :)
He's undercover Austin Powers
Hey brother super sick video. This is actually super clutch for my business.
That said, do you know if it’s possible to set it up where it can scrape multiple pages at a time. Each page it scrapes would have the same data, so it would need to be able to create multiple rows and put multiple rows into the storage.
Did you even examine the modules it has? Loop is one
@@BGdev305 yes actually figured out it straight up does not work at all for the site that I was pulling data from.
Can I make click on an extension icon from my browser navbar using automa?
Great video But Why your video is lagy then ur voice
Also I have a suggestion
Can you make an automation where If we provide a topic then it will create images , context to be able to upload to different social medias like Linkedin , Instagram Facebook and automatically upload it to the respective platforms
Can you cover loops and pagination
Yes, would be very nice to see how to scrape for example a blog with the same text structure (heading, date, body etc.) on one and the following sites.
Its really a great extenstions.
is there a forum where we can go for help?
I try it, its really wonderfull tool❤
I love you content. Great!
The website is unreachable. Was it shut down or is it a temporary issue?
ive got it to open my google sheets via url...how do i get it to go to and open cell A1 which has a url in it, open the url and then get it to go to A2 and perform that same task again (open url)
It's not good idea to access google sheet with url you can access it by automa build in feature you can see it from @browserautomate
One way I think of it is that it can be automated pretty much like the scripts that are made for Logitech or razer gaming mouse, i.e. you can send specific keystrokes that the bot will perform to do what you want. Every specific cell can be reached by entering Ctrl+J, typing the name of the cell, and pressing Enter. From there, Ctrl+C to copy the URL, Ctrl+T to open a new tab, and Ctrl+V to paste the URL, Enter to finish and load the page. It can be further expanded from there
@@gabikralj94 ah i see - great explanation - thank yo