BrowserAct

BrowserAct

· #388 most-used

Automate any website — scrape, monitor, and act without writing code

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BrowserAct is an AI-powered web automation and scraping platform that turns any website into a structured data source — no code required. It handles JavaScript-rendered pages, infinite scroll, CAPTCHA challenges, residential proxy rotation, and authenticated browser sessions so your agents can extract, monitor, and act on data from any site on the public or authenticated web. Connect BrowserAct to Actionist and your agents can trigger scrape workflows, retrieve structured results, monitor pages for changes, run batch data collection across hundreds of URLs, and manage isolated browser profiles for multi-account automation — all without leaving the tools where your data needs to land.

Average time saved
14 hours
per person · per month
≈ 2 workdays back

Eliminates manual work. Agents eliminate the manual cycle of visiting sites to gather data, monitoring pages for changes, and copying extracted information into business tools — tasks that compound across teams when done without automation.

Schedule

What your BrowserAct agent runs on autopilot

A week of scheduled jobs your Actionist agent will execute on your behalf.

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Multi-app workflows

BrowserAct × every other app you use

End-to-end automations that span multiple apps — each one a real business outcome.

6Workflows
6Apps spanned
~15 hrsSaved / week
6Personas served
For sales
Featured3 apps

New CRM company enriched from the web at creation

When a new company is added to HubSpot, the agent scrapes the company website, LinkedIn profile, and Crunchbase listing to extract headcount range, funding stage, tech stack indicators, and a company description — writing all fields back to the HubSpot record before the rep makes first contact. Reps skip the manual research phase and open every call already informed.

~5 hrs

Time saved for your team — every week, on autopilot

The flow
Trigger·When a new company record is created in HubSpot
Result
Run Workflow Task to scrape company website, LinkedIn, and Crunchbase profileUpdate company properties with extracted intelligence fieldsPost enrichment summary to #new-leads Slack channel
The win
Saved per run
15 min
Runs / week
~20×
Every new lead arrives with real company intelligence, not just a name
Driven bySales Agent
ROI

Savings

What your team gets back — two angles: what you stop doing manually, and what that's worth.

Without Actionist

What you do manually today

With Actionist

What your agent runs for you

  • Sales
    50 min / week
    Manual pre-call research

    Reps manually visit company websites, LinkedIn, and Crunchbase before each call, copying key details into CRM notes — 10 to 15 minutes of research per new prospect.

    Sales Agent
    0 min
    Agent scrapes prospect sites and enriches CRM automatically

    When a new company is added to HubSpot, the agent runs a BrowserAct workflow to extract the company description, headcount, and tech stack — the record is enriched before the rep makes first contact.

  • Marketing
    120 min / week
    Manual competitive intelligence gathering

    Marketing manually visits competitor sites, screenshots pricing pages, and assembles a comparison doc before each planning cycle — two hours of work every week.

    Marketing Agent
    0 min
    Agent extracts competitor data weekly from live pages

    Every Monday the agent scrapes the pricing and feature pages of competitor products and posts a structured brief to the planning meeting channel — no dashboard logins required.

  • Customer Support
    45 min / week
    Manual vendor status and doc monitoring

    Support leads manually check vendor status pages and documentation sites throughout the day, often discovering incidents only after customer tickets arrive.

    Customer Support Agent
    0 min
    Agent monitors vendor docs and status pages for changes

    BrowserAct checks the status pages and changelogs of key integrations on a schedule, alerting support the moment an incident is detected — before customers report it.

  • Human Resources
    40 min / week
    Manual salary benchmarking research

    HR manually visits multiple salary comparison sites for each open role, collects data, and assembles a benchmarking summary — 30 to 45 minutes per new role.

    Human Resources Agent
    0 min
    Agent pulls salary benchmarks when a new role is opened

    When a new role is added to the hiring tracker, the agent scrapes Glassdoor, Indeed, and LinkedIn Salary Insights and writes current ranges to the compensation sheet automatically.

  • Finance
    30 min / week
    Manual vendor pricing monitoring

    Finance manually checks vendor pricing pages quarterly or at contract renewal, often discovering price increases only when the invoice arrives — too late to budget for the change.

    Finance Agent
    0 min
    Agent scrapes vendor pricing pages before every billing cycle

    The agent runs a weekly BrowserAct task across five SaaS vendor pricing pages, flags any price changes, and updates the vendor cost tracker — so finance is never surprised at renewal.

  • Operations
    60 min / week
    Manual supplier portal checking

    Operations staff log into each supplier portal individually to check order status and delivery updates — a repetitive process across five or more portals at the start of every week.

    Operations Agent
    0 min
    Agent monitors supplier portals with saved sessions

    BrowserAct runs authenticated supplier portal scrapes using saved browser profiles, extracting order status and delivery estimates into the supply chain tracker every Monday morning.

  • Legal
    90 min / week
    Manual regulatory website monitoring

    Legal staff manually check regulatory body websites each week for new notices, copying relevant updates into a tracking document — a time-consuming sweep that is easy to skip when workloads spike.

    Legal Agent
    0 min
    Agent extracts regulatory notices and routes them to the review queue

    Every Tuesday the agent scrapes five regulatory body websites, extracts new notices, and posts them to the compliance register in Notion — the legal team reviews a structured digest, not raw pages.

+ 100s of other BrowserAct automations
Average time saved
44 hrs / person / month
Calculator

Calculate what your team saves

Team size
5 people
Hourly rate
$75 / hr
Hours saved / week
18
Hours saved / year
875
Annual ROI
$65,625

Based on BrowserAct's typical team usage — the visible tasks plus a few other automations the agent runs: ~3.5 hrs / person / week of admin work automated.

Connect

How to plug BrowserAct into Actionist

Pick the connection method that suits your environment.

Connect with a BrowserAct API key for direct REST API access. The key grants full access to trigger workflows, retrieve results, and manage browser profiles within your account.

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Open BrowserAct API Key settings

Log in to your BrowserAct account, go to Settings and select API Keys. Click Generate New Key to create a key scoped to your account.

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Copy the API key

Copy the generated key. Store it securely — treat it like a password and do not share it across services.

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Paste into Actionist and test

Paste the key into the API Key field in Actionist and click Test connection. Actionist calls the List Workflows endpoint to verify access.

Credentials you'll need
API Key*
BrowserAct dashboard → Settings → API Keys → Generate new key
Actions

14 actions your agent can call

Read and write operations available to your Actionist agent.

Triggers

0 events your agent can react to

Events your agent watches for, and the actions it kicks off in response.

This app has no triggers yet.
Skills

Skills that pair with BrowserAct

Reusable agent skills that work well alongside this app.

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FAQs

Questions about BrowserAct + Actionist

How does Actionist connect to BrowserAct?
Go to the Apps tab, find BrowserAct, and click Connect. The recommended path is API key — open your BrowserAct account dashboard, navigate to Settings > API Keys, generate a new key, and paste it into Actionist. Actionist runs a test call to list your published workflows and confirm the handshake before any tasks run. If you prefer MCP, install the BrowserAct MCP server from the marketplace and the agent connects directly via the MCP protocol with no token required.
What permissions does the agent need on my BrowserAct account?
Your API key inherits the permissions of the account that generated it, which covers running tasks, listing workflows, checking task status, and retrieving results. There is no granular read/write scope system — a key either has full access or none. For security, generate a dedicated API key for Actionist rather than sharing one with other services, so you can rotate or revoke it independently.
Can I use BrowserAct alongside other apps in the same Actionist workflow?
Yes. BrowserAct is most powerful when combined with the apps where your data lands. Common combinations: trigger a scrape task when a new competitor product appears in a Google Sheets watchlist; deliver extracted data directly into Notion databases or HubSpot contacts; post price alerts to Slack when a monitored page changes; or feed extracted lead data into a CRM for automatic enrichment. Any of Actionist's connected apps can send inputs to BrowserAct or receive its structured output.
What kinds of websites can BrowserAct handle?
BrowserAct handles JavaScript-rendered pages, infinite scroll, multi-step form submissions, CAPTCHA challenges (reCAPTCHA, Cloudflare, DataDome, HUMAN Security), session and cookie reuse, residential proxy rotation, and browser fingerprint isolation. For workflows that require human intervention — such as 2FA or complex verification steps — BrowserAct's human-assistance layer pauses the task and sends a remote-assist request, then resumes automatically once the human step is complete.
What format does BrowserAct return data in, and where can Actionist send it?
BrowserAct returns structured data in JSON, CSV, XML, or Markdown. When you run a task via Actionist, the agent polls the task status endpoint until completion, then retrieves the result. For large exports, the result includes downloadable file URLs. You can configure Actionist to automatically write the returned JSON to a Google Sheet, append rows to a Notion database, or pass the data to any downstream step in the same workflow.
How does BrowserAct billing work when I run tasks through Actionist?
BrowserAct uses a credits-based billing model. Workflow steps cost 5 credits each (approximately $0.0032 per step); residential proxy bandwidth costs 5,000 credits per gigabyte. The credit consumption for a given task depends on the number of steps in the workflow and whether proxies are used. Browser profile creation is free for the first five profiles. You can monitor credit usage from your BrowserAct dashboard; Actionist does not manage credits — those are consumed within your BrowserAct account.
Can BrowserAct handle sites that require login or multi-account management?
Yes. BrowserAct supports multi-account automation through isolated browser profiles — each profile maintains its own cookies, sessions, and fingerprint. You can assign a dedicated profile ID when running a task so the agent always uses the correct logged-in session. This is useful for monitoring dashboards that require login, managing multiple social accounts, or automating tasks in platforms that rate-limit by session.
How long does a BrowserAct task take, and how does Actionist know when it is done?
Tasks are asynchronous — when Actionist triggers a scrape or automation task, BrowserAct returns a task ID immediately. The agent then polls the Get Task Status action at intervals until the task reports success or failure. For time-sensitive workflows, BrowserAct also supports webhooks: when a task completes, BrowserAct pushes the result to a URL you specify, so Actionist can react within about a minute of the task finishing rather than polling on a fixed interval.