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We *did* say it was a "speed run" 😉 This particular video was meant to show what's possible, but we're hearing that you (and others) would like something slower and more detailed!

Hmmm...that math doesn't quite feel right. Here's how we calculate credits: help.browse.ai/article/103-credits-calculation. If you haven't already I'd recommend checking with our Support team to see if that's accurate or maybe there's a different way of approaching it :)

Anything in particular when it comes to using Browse AI with Make? Suppose a general tutorial would be a great start :)

@@BrowseAI Suppose I want to update my website with specific news or items, and use make to Automate this process

Thanks for the feedback! Awesome that you found this helpful :)

Great to hear that you find Browse AI promising. The lack of APIs is one of the many gaps that web scraping can fill!

It's not currently possible, but that's an interesting idea that I'll pass along to the team. For now, you could export that Google Sheet to CSV, then upload (though we understand that's an extra step).

Yeah, sorry about that! Had some settings issues there. Apologies for the fluctuating volume!

If you visit browse.ai/prebuilt-robots we have two readymade robots for Google Maps: Extract Search Results from Google Maps and Extract Details Info of a Place on Google Maps. Could those work for your use case?

😕 Have any constructive feedback of how it could have been more clear/helpful for you? We'll be remaking our videos to include Robot Studio, so we'd love to hear what would have made the experience better :)

Sorry to hear you're running into problems! Best bet there would be to reach out to our Support team, if you haven't already. They can troubleshoot and help you resolve your issues.

Yes! Once you start training your robot, it's watching all the things you're clicking and should repeat those when it runs.

Great idea! We'll add those soon :)

Added, FYI 😃

If you're not able to get it working yourself, our wonderful support team has some magical powers up their sleeves! You can reach them via the help button on the bottom right of our marketing site and help center.

That's a great question! You can extract multiple lists on a single page. You train the robot on one, then once you've saved it you can identify others. All in the same robot training session.

Thanks for the kind words! We're working constantly to improve those things as well :)

If you can truly do that yourself, that's awesome :) Can you do it on auto-pilot, scale it across multiple websites, handle captchas, adapt to changing website designs, search keywords, integrate with other apps, handle pagination, take screenshots, etc? Those are the obstacles we're helping to overcome, and the entire deep scraping process will be improved beyond what this video shows (reminder that we need to make an updated video 💪).

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In order to do something like that you could look into one of the workflow automation tools we integrate with (Zapier, Make, etc). That would be the easiest way to get started :)

Sorry to hear you're running into issues! We don't currently have a user forum, though we have a super responsive and helpful support team that can work with you to resolve issues.

It sounds like you might be referring to deep scraping, where you extract a list of items then get data from those items' detail pages. We have videos on the channel explaining that, and articles in our help center as well :)

@@BrowseAI thank you

You could use our Workflows feature, which connects multiple robots together. Robot A gets a list of items and Robot B extracts data from each of those items (and integrates with apps like Google Sheets, Airtable, etc).

Based on what you've described, it sounds like that should be possible. Your best bet is to try building a robot for the particular store(s) and if you run into any issues we have a fantastic support team that's ready to help you out!

Admittedly, this particular example may not be the most accessible one. We'd like to think that there are many use cases for a feature like this. Any website that has a list or directory, and also a detail page for each of those items. This includes online stores, real estate listings, job posts, company directories, etc. With the recent introduction of Tables by Browse AI, we'll be working on making the deep scraping process more intuitive and less manual :)

That's a great question! Yes, you can chain two robots together using Workflows. Take a look at this tutorial: th-cam.com/video/5TDUuaRWimY/w-d-xo.html

Noted! We sometimes err on the side of providing an overview, but we're hearing from users that detailed and slower-paced videos are what would be helpful. Thanks for the feedback!

Hmmm...this one's tricky to answer without seeing specifics. If you haven't already, I'd suggest reaching out to our support team and providing them with some more details about what you're trying to accomplish :)

Not sure if you're referring to the selection of each piece of text while training the robot? It should simply be a matter of hovering over what you want to capture until it's highlighted, then clicking on it. When you've highlighted all of them, you go through and name them. Hopefully you've reached out to our support team if you weren't able to get things working, as they would be happy to help you out with this!

Glad you think so :)

This is not currently possible using Browse AI alone, but we have some major new updates (including this) on the roadmap for this quarter :) You *could* use something like Zapier if you really wanted to do it. In terms of Airtable, as I alluded to at the end of the video, you can link tables such that the columns can appear within the data created by Robot A. Would you be interested in seeing how that would be done with Airtable?

@@BrowseAI love that this is going to be a new update! I was actually able to set up a workaround with Zapier + google sheets + Zapier tables. Would definitely simplify things a lot for a user if they were able to do that within the product. It took me 15-20+ hours of testing and about 1k credits to get to this point (just an FYI to help you quantify the value of the feature you're adding!).

its public and on the internet--how can you possibly find this illegal

Great question (and a common one). If you check out help.browse.ai and search for "legal" we have an article that addresses that :)

What this tool does is simplify the work, because the information is public.

When you read something on the internet and record it in your brain. Is it legal? Likewise with these bots. What you are reading is just being stored in a hard drive for later use.

Hey Justin! Sorry to hear about your frustration 😞Curious which part you're getting stuck on. Is it that the video doesn't go deep enough into certain things? This one was meant as a high-level overview to show what's possible. If you have questions about your specific use case you can reach out to our awesome Customer Success team and they should be able to help you out :)

If you're referring to the Zapier Chrome extension, we do not have a video that dives deeper. Anything in particular you'd like to know more about, because we could certainly make such a video :)

Thanks, I'll deep dive into Zapier Chrome extension.

Great question! We we don't recommend using Browse AI on social media sites that require logging in. You can read more in this help article: help.browse.ai/article/105-can-i-log-in-to-a-website-while-recording-my-task.

Thanks for the awesome feature request! This is on our roadmap, but in the meantime, you can contact our support team and they can help copy your robot to another account :)

@BrowseAI No worries! Glad a company is actually innovating

Thanks for the thoughtful feedback. Truly. This is very helpful :) We could definitely make it more clear what the intended audience/experience level is for certain videos, or maybe include sections that can be skipped if a person understands those particular concepts. It's a tricky task to make videos accessible to those who know our product well and those are new to Browse AI, all the while nailing the length and pace. We're still pretty new to this, and constructive criticism like yours really is valuable. Thanks for taking the time to provide it! (note from the guy who made this video: "mumbling kind of fast" is the same complaint my wife has 😂)

@@BrowseAI might be helpful if you explain the general framework or concept, say this is the list of the url i will need for robot B to perform XYZ tasks etc. It's a bit hard follow to be honest

If by "allow for scraping" you mean websites that give permission to scrape data, we have a help doc that addresses that: help.browse.ai/article/163-scraped-data-ownership-usage. But, from a technical standpoint, most websites *can* be scraped using Browse AI (or other similar tools). The best way to see if it's possible to extract your desired data is test it out :) And if you run into any challenges, our Customer Success team is happy to help!

That might depend on how those FAQs are created, code-wise. You can try toggling several of them open, then capturing a list. That's a great idea for a video and/or help article - thanks!

BUT, think of how productive you can be once you automate web scraping with Browse AI and can then work on other things :)

So is the idea that the list of items would be the page that shows all the contacts, then for each of those you want to click on Contact Info and get the data that appears in that modal? BTW, our support team is great at helping with workflow questions like this :)

Thanks for the feedback. We're still pretty new in our latest foray into making videos. Any specific advice on what you think was overcomplicated?

Hmmm...do you have an example of the kind of data you're trying to capture?