cschlaepfer

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   by cschlaepfer 9mo ago

   Thanks for the question! We only use the hosted browser for running the automations remotely (via API). In the IDE, we use a local chrome browser, where we spin up an anonymous profile for isolation.
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   by cschlaepfer 9mo ago

   Thanks! We're constantly thinking about ways we can improve the dev experience and integrations story around deploying these scripts. Right now we support API executions, and we are adding webhooks soon. We think this will unblock th
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   by cschlaepfer 9mo ago

   BrowserBook allows users to create 'auth profiles' which can be utilized in notebooks for authentication purposes. These profiles currently support username/password and 2FA via TOTP (and we recommend provisioning a service
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   by cschlaepfer 9mo ago

   Thanks, we appreciate it! Yes, you can use BrowserBook to write e2e test automations, but we don't currently include playwright assertions in the runtime - we excluded these since they are geared toward a specific use case, and we want
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   by cschlaepfer 9mo ago

   It's a typescript/react application, bundled in electron.
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   by cschlaepfer 9mo ago

   Thank you! > Why the subscription model though? The subscription model is primarily to cover the costs of creating and running automations at scale (i.e., LLM code gen and browser uptime) and to build a sustainable business around those
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   by cschlaepfer 9mo ago

   Thanks! Yep, linux is coming soon - now that we have the first version of the IDE out the door we're going to get cross-platform going shortly.
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   by cschlaepfer 9mo ago

   Thanks, and great question - we think about this a lot and think there are a couple of things here. First, as models get better, our agent's ability to navigate a website and generate accurate automation scripts will improve, giving us
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   by cschlaepfer 9mo ago

   Appreciate it! Yes exactly - today we send it a simplified version of the DOM, but we're currently building an agent which will be able to discover the relevant DOM elements.
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