In this post, we delve into the intricacies of advanced settings within automation, focusing on key features such as proxies, cookies, screen settings, and runtime settings. Join us on a journey to uncover the power of advanced automation configurations. (See individual steps below)

Proxies play a crucial role in altering your online presence and enabling you to manage multiple accounts seamlessly. By adding proxies, you can change your location, maintain anonymity, and improve security. Our expert, Kyle, emphasizes the significance of proxies in optimizing your automation experience.

Cookies are essential components in automation that store user data and preferences. Learning how to manage cookies effectively can streamline your workflow and enhance automation accuracy. Discover how to add, edit, or clear cookies to tailor your automation to specific websites like YouTube or LinkedIn.

Screen settings offer customization options to mimic different device layouts, such as mobile or tablet views. Adjusting browser sizes and preferences can ensure a consistent user experience across various devices. Dive into the details of screen settings with our detailed explanations and practical tips.

Runtime settings are vital for controlling the duration and behavior of your automation tasks. Learn how to set maximum runtimes to prevent endless loops and understand the benefits of randomized mouse movements. Discover the art of appearing more human-like in your interactions with online platforms through strategic runtime settings.

To optimize your automation strategy, consider implementing suggestions such as enabling randomized mouse movements for social media interactions. By incorporating advanced settings like proxies and runtime configurations, you can elevate your automation performance and navigate complex online environments with ease.

Mastering advanced settings inside automation is the key to unlocking the full potential of your tasks. Whether you're a seasoned automation expert or a beginner looking to enhance your skills, understanding proxies, cookies, screen settings, and runtime configurations is essential. Stay tuned for more insights and tips on maximizing your automation capabilities.

By following the guidance shared in this post, you can take your automation skills to the next level and achieve greater efficiency in your digital tasks. Embrace the power of advanced settings and revolutionize your automation experience today.

Advanced Settings Inside an Automation

Step- 1 Go to Advanced Settings

Step- 2 Add Proxies

(A way to change your location for the website you're running on)

If we enable proxies (Save them) you are not enabling the proxies

Step- 3 if we Enable Proxies and Save (you will add a proxy here)

Step- 4 (Where to find Proxies)

If you have Proxies from us, click Add Browser VPN in the top right or Add Proxy on the left drawer or you have your own if you got it.

Step- 5 Once you click on Add Browser VPN, it will ask you to choose the plan (once you clicked on this it will automatically show your Automation Settings)

Step- 6 Proxy is added just click on Save

Step- 7 How to Manage Cookies: Add OR Clear

Step- 8 Clear Cookies after each run

Step- 9 Screen Settings offer customization options to mimic different device layouts, such as mobile or tablet views. Adjusting browser sizes and preferences can ensure a consistent user experience across various devices.

If the browser size is Mobile Phone (Browsing on Mobile)

(Always show brower when running (Desktop only)) If browsing on Desktop (showing the browser called HEAED and not showing browser is called HEADLESS)

Step- 10 Runtime Settings Runtime is if you want your automation to absolutely stop after a certain amount of seconds.

Step- 11 Randomize Mouse Movement

(For using Social Media sites like LI or FB)

Hey everybody, Jeremy Redman here with Kyle. How's it going? Task Magic. And we are going to go over one thing, which is very important to Kyle, which is an automation specific advanced settings. So, and said in another way, advanced settings per automation or the advanced settings is. Inside of settings inside of the automation itself.

And what we mean by that is this there's two ways to find this, right, Kyle, or is there just one, just one? Okay. So when we go to an automation, okay, there's not much here. When we go to this automation, you'll see all the automation settings and options and buttons that you can do here on the left hand side, which we've covered.

Now we have play steps, add proxy, manage trigger, rename automation, task history, filter by, recapture steps, send to Google Sheets, send to webhook, and advanced settings. This is what Kyle wanted to do. Okay, Kyle, what are advanced settings? Which one? You can go over proxies first, or are we going to Cool, so Kyle doesn't know how to act on video, or do anything on video or audio.

So, we have under advanced settings per automation, we have add proxies, manage cookies, Screen settings and runtime settings. Okay. As an overview, Kyle, what is ad proxies? A way to change your location for the website you're running on. So you can describe yourself as something else or run multiple accounts at once.

Okay. So I want to manage proxies and I haven't done anything, but I see save. So what happens when I click save closes that pop up, but it saves something saves that there's you're not enabling proxies, which is the same as it was before. Okay. So if I enable proxies, what do I do here? You add your proxies there.

Okay. Where do I find that? If you have it from us, you could click add browser VPN in the top right or add proxy on the left drawer or you have your own if you got it. So I would come here, add browser proxy. I would buy it. And then when I click that, it would show my settings, right? Correct. There'd be an option to add to your automation.

And then I can just copy that. That would add it to the automation. It would put it in that field that you were looking at. And then you can click save. Okay. So enable, I would click it in here and then I would click save. Right? Yeah. So the proxy would be added there and then you could click save. Okay.

And what exactly does that do just as an overview? Helps you, I guess, stay, if you want to run a bunch of LinkedIn accounts at once, it helps you separate yourself from the other accounts. So you look like different people. Helps you um, I don't know look like something else be from a different location protect yourself.

I mean plenty of things Kyle cannot speak for his life. Okay. All right. So that's ad proxies. We covered that in another video We can link that is in here as well. Uh in this article Uh, and in the description of the video. So the second thing, so that's proxies. That's browser VPNs, right Kyle? That's proxy IPs, yeah?

Cool, so we should probably add proxy IPs or something here. Like, we should probably make this match this description. So, Now, the second one is manage cookies. We did this cookies tutorial, uh, and it's one of the two videos that you're guided through to make sure that you watch, because it's very important.

Now, we had a customer do this the other day. This is how you manage the cookies or redo the cookies or edit something or manage something that you put in the beginning. You add, you go to that extension, you click the cookies, you copy that or export the cookies, From that logged in website, say your automation includes YouTube or let's say LinkedIn, you go to logged in LinkedIn, you grab that cookie, you put it on at the very beginning.

And you're like, Whoa, how do I manage what I just put in there? This is how you do that. Is that correct, Kyle? Correct. Great. So if you've done that, you've added cookies, but you're like, Oh, I made this automation. I don't know how to manage them. Advanced settings on the left. Manage cookies. And then you can add this.

You can add cookies after the fact, right, Kyle? Correct. Okay. So, or you can clear cookies after each run. Right? Yeah. Okay. Great. And then that's it for this one, right? Then you hit save. Correct. Okay. So screen settings. What are screen settings? So as if, uh, I think some people have had to run websites that had to run from a mobile phone.

So if you set the browser size to be mobile phone dimensions, it helped trick the website. Um, or is this the way to make it kind of consistent? If you have different people with different computers running it, since the website changes its layout often, depending on the screen size, Great. Now, what about this second setting here?

Always show browser when running desktop only. Yeah. So when you click play steps, that's going to open up a browser and run the automation in front of you. If you turn the automation on and it's triggered to run automatically, it will not show the browser. It just runs from your screen. So that's called a headless run.

This setting makes it it's a good way to test your flows or watch what happened. This way, if something's triggered automatically, it still shows a browser even when it automatically runs from your desktop. Otherwise, it's going to run without that browser. Cool. So this is a doing this as opposed to what what is the normal way?

Well, like you might want to leave, you might want to, if you're, if the automation is going to be triggered automatically, you might want to be able to see it when it runs. You might have a step where you pause the automation and you do something manually, you might want to just watch it, whatever, whatever reason for you wanting to see the screen when it's triggered automatic.

Okay, cool. So and manage screen settings, you can always show browser when running and showing the browser is called headed. Correct, Kyle? Correct. And not showing it is called headless, correct? Okay. So, so you can always show browser when running. That's again, just to reiterate, when you're on your desktop by default, by default, Kyle, does the browser window show or not show?

It will show when you click play steps. It will not show when it's triggered automatically. Got you. So, and what he's talking about automatically is when you see it running in traffic control, right? Uh, no, that shows replace those two. The running automatically is like, if you have an every five minute trigger or an every time a row is added, it's when it was triggered without you being the one that clicked play steps.

Okay, great. So and then browser size is just if you want to get in, get dirty and adjust the size based on if you want to make if you want to make it like you want to make your automation like you were doing it on a mobile phone, right? Like a mobile view, you would do it here, right? Correct. That was one way someone did it.

Um, somebody wanted to force a menu not to show. And if you made your screen small enough, it forced that menu not to show. That's amazing. That's a really good hack. That's a really good advanced setting. So again, that's a, that's a really good thing that I would like to know. If you want your automation to run like it is in a tablet size or like it is in a mobile size.

Right? Where you know how menus show differently on a tablet or a mobile phone and you want, or, or certain settings or things on the page look different. You can adjust that setting. Is that correct here, Kyle? Yeah. That sounds like a great use case. And then you save. So you can set it here. Boom. Always show browser done.

So that's that one. And then runtime settings. What is this? So maximum runtime is if you want your automation to absolutely stop after a certain amount of seconds, this is useful for automations that like some people set up automations that run in an endless loop and it would run forever. Um, like let's say that it's, it's going to Facebook and it's liking Facebook posts for however long it can scroll.

This automation is going to kind of override and make sure that it stops no matter what it's doing. Okay. Um, and then what matters more in this one specifically is the randomized mouse movement. And this is a good one if you're warming up social media accounts, or if a site is extremely, extremely picky about your behavior.

Um, this just helps you look like more of a person instead of looking like someone who knows exactly what button they want to press and what they want to type every single time they visit the website. Okay. So should we have, what would be the downfall of having this on by default? There's a chance that it hovers over something that triggers something.

Hmm. Okay. There's a, it's a very small chance, but it's a chance. So you can randomize mouse movements during your automation to appear less like a bot or an automation, right? Yeah, so a lot of people use this in combination with another video we can make where you can randomize the delay per step. That way you have your mouse moving a little bit and you're moving and you're waiting for a certain amount of time.

This is really helpful for automations that are going to be on like LinkedIn and Facebook, where they're very picky about you being a bot. And trying to be a bot. Great. So to optimize and what we should do, Kyle, is we should, when we know someone has gone to like LinkedIn or whatever, we should add, hey, if you're going to LinkedIn or YouTube or Facebook or Instagram, you should think about going to advanced settings, runtime settings and click randomized mouse movements, right?

Would that be a good thing to do for all social sites? Yeah. I think suggesting this would be good. Correct. So write that down. So we should suggest, um, randomized mouse. We should make some, we should have a pop up of these suggestions. Like make, do you have a VPN? So you should add this. Like just take those five sites, you know what I mean?

And go cool. Have a pop up after, after the fact, after they've done recording saying manage runtime setting or like, uh, the note that I put and notion and go in here and say, Do you want to add a VPN? Cool. Cause this will optimize your performance, deliverability, etc. For these social sites and randomized mouse movements.

And you just click them, you know, so we'll do that. Look out for that pop up. Uh, Kyle, we'll finish that and then you hit save. So that is advanced settings per automation. Anything else to add Kyle? Nope. That's it. Okay, great. Let us know in the comments, anything you'd like to see here. Uh, or any little settings that you'd like to have tweaked and we'll see on the other side