Help Center
- Getting Started
  - What does TaskMagic do?
  - Apps Vs Browser Recording?
  - TaskMagic Glossary
  - TaskMagic 101
  - All things Browser Recording
  - Advanced Settings Inside an Automation
  - Exploring the Left Side Panel Menu Bar
  - Profile Settings and Changing Your Email
  - Billing Settings and Find Invoice
  - Understanding Traffic Control in Automation
  - Why You May Need to Record a Type Step for a Dropdown
  - What is a Suggested Step?
  - How to Copy Click and Scrape Links or Images with Task Magic
  - What is Allow Error and How Does it Work
  - Debugging a Flow That is Not Scraping
  - Handling Issue with Login - How it’s Not a Bug But Reported as a Bug (with Customer Example)
  - Scraping a URL vs Scraping Text
  - Getting Started with Browser Automation
  - What Are Guided Tutorials
  - How to Use Cookies
  - Whats the Difference Between Web-based automation and API Automation (zapier and pabbly)
  - Insufficient Scopes Were Provided - Please Contact the App Developer
  - What is a Dynamic Variable?
  - What Does "Turn On" Do?
  - The Difference Between Webhooks in Browser Recordings and Webhooks in Apps
  - What is the Difference Between Scrape and Copy?
  - Difference between a bug and an edge case feature
  - What is a Click Step?
  - What is a Scrolldown Step?
  - How Do I Know to Start With Apps, Web Recordings, or Guided Tutorials?
  - What is Chromium and Why Do You Use it for Browser Recording
  - Do I Need to Have Any Technical Expertise to Use TaskMagic?
  - My First Step Requires a Sign In and Password, How Do I Do That?
  - What is the Best Way to Figure Out My Steps Before Using the Platform?
  - What is "Change Step Type" and Why Would I Want to Change a Step Type After Recording?
  - What's the Question You'd Ask to Help People Understand They Need to Start With a Webhook
  - Inside the prompt window to the right of each recorded step (while i’m recording) i see three dots. When i click that i see “advanced settings”. When i click it i see the option to check “go to step if this step fails” and “enable random delays”. What does “enable random delays” do and why would i do that?
  - Build Start Here Tutorial and Running It
  - Running Start Here Tutorial
  - Use Your Chrome Profile Before Recording
  - Adding Time Conditions to an Automation
  - What Does “Turn on Time Constraints” Mean and How Does It Work?
  - What Are the Instagram Guided Templates and What Things Can I Automate With Them?
  - What are the LinkedIn guided templates and what things can i automate with them?
  - What are the facebook guided templates and what things can i automate with them?
  - Why am I recording steps? What does recording have to do with my automation?
  - What Does “Cloud” Actually Mean?
  - How do cloud hours work? And when i buy them where do i see them?
  - How Do Profiles/Cookies Work in TaskMagic?
  - Inside the prompt window to the right of each recorded step i see three dots. When i click that i see “disable step”. What does “disable step” do and why would i do that?
  - What is the “List Trigger?" This Used to be Called Loop, Are List and Loop the Same Thing?
  - What is the Prompt Window and Where Can it Be Found?
  - What is the “apps” button in the prompt window and how’s it work and why would i need it for my automation? IS this adding an app action or trigger inside the recording DURING the recording?
  - What is the “keypress” button in the prompt window and how’s it work and why would i need it for my automation?
  - What is the “custom javascript” button in the prompt window and how’s it work and why would i need it for my automation?
  - What is the “delay” button in the prompt window and how’s it work and why would i need it for my automation?
  - What is the “filter” button in the prompt window and how’s it work and why would i need it for my automation?
  - What is the “go to page” button in the prompt window and how’s it work and why would i need it for my automation? It doesnt say enter URL?
  - What is the “scrolldown” button in the prompt window and how’s it work and why would i need it for my automation?
  - What IS Recording?
  - How Do I Change an Automation Name?
  - What is the “type” button in the prompt window and how’s it work and why would i need it for my automation?
  - Why are there two windows to click in (prompt window and chromium window)
- Features
  - Can I Make a Chatbot in TaskMagic in the Apps Builder? How?
  - What Are “Suggested Steps” and Why Do They Keep Popping Up All the Time?
  - In a scrape step, what does “keep formatting (line breaks, etc.)“ mean? How is it used and how is it helpful?
  - What is “milliseconds we will wait for… “ mean? How is it used and how is it helpful?
  - What is “TM ai-smart detection” that i see checked while scraping and how does it help my automation?
  - I want to add a parse step after recording. And i see “select a step or variable,” what is this?
  - I want to add a parse step after recording. And i see “enter an example of what will be parsed,” what does this mean? Whats an “example” in this context?
  - I want to add a parse step after recording. And i see “select type,” at the bottom in the last field; what is this and how does it work?
  - Custom browser size
  - Scrape data from websites
  - Screenshot.
  - Scheduling Trigger with “Manage Trigger Settings”
  - Sheet change trigger (new row added or edited)
  - Looping through data
  - Connecting Google Sheets
  - Using Webhooks
  - Find by Text
  - Filter-by to find an automation
  - Recording
  - Custom Steps
  - What is Custom Javascript and how is it helpful?
  - URL
  - Filter
  - Staying logged in sites for future runs
  - Scheduling Every Hour Trigger
  - What is Delay?
  - What does “Manage loop trigger” do and how to use it?
  - Does TaskMagic Integrate with Pabbly, Make, or Zapier?
  - Prompting Gemini For a Response
  - How Do You Format Text?
  - What is the schedule trigger? How does scheduling my automation to run at a certain time work? Like scheduling every hour or 5 minutes? And what are time constraints?
  - Do You Support My Additional Users (Invited Teammates)?
  - Can i only “find by text” when i use a scrape text step? Is find by text the same if i use “scrape a list” or “scrape single?”
  - Explaining to a Customer How TaskMagic Helps Deal With Anti-Bot Controls
  - How do nested loops work? Can you show me
  - How does activepieces (apps) work with TaskMagic?
  - Using the List Trigger for Pagination
  - Will I need a proxy IP (browser VPN) for every member of my team/clients? Or Is it based on connected account (LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook etc)?
  - Does TaskMagic have an API to use? What are the workarounds? Webhooks?
  - What is the “branch” action app inside apps under core and how’s it work and why would i need it for my automation?
  - What is the “loop” action app inside apps under core and how’s it work and why would i need it for my automation? And how is it different than looping inside the taskmagic recorder?
  - What is the “connections” action app inside apps under core and how’s it work and why would i need it for my automation?
  - What is the “data mapper” action app inside apps under core and how’s it work and why would i need it for my automation?
  - What is the “http request send to webhook” action app inside apps under core and how’s it work and why would i need it for my automation?
  - What is the “delay” action app inside apps under core and how’s it work and why would i need it for my automation?
  - What is the “text helper” action app inside apps under core and how’s it work and why would i need it for my automation?
  - What is “RPA”, or Robotic Process Automation?
  - What’s "Find By Text" and How Can It Help My Automation?
  - Do You Offer a Cloud Plan and How Does That Work?
  - How Do I Access Developer Tools?
  - What is the “date helper” action app inside apps under core and how’s it work and why would i need it for my automation?
  - Facebook took their api away can I still automate Facebook with TaskMagic? Yes, and why you don’t need APIs when automating with TaskMagic.
  - What is the “math helper” action app inside apps under core and how’s it work and why would i need it for my automation?
  - What is the “files helper” action app inside apps under core and how’s it work and why would i need it for my automation?
  - What is the “SFTP” action app inside apps under core and how’s it work and why would i need it for my automation?
  - What is the “SMTP” action app inside apps under core and how’s it work and why would i need it for my automation?
  - What is the “storage” action app inside apps under core and how’s it work and why would i need it for my automation?
  - What is the “activebots” action app inside apps under core and how’s it work?
  - What is the “code” action app inside apps under core and how’s it work and why would i need it for my automation?
  - What is the “schedule” tirgger app inside apps under core? Hows it different from scheduling in the taskmagic recorder?
  - What is the “scrape single” button in the prompt window and how’s it work and why would i need it for my automation?
  - What is the “scrape a list” button in the recording prompt window and how’s it work and why would i need it for my automation?
  - How does taskmagic handle form submissions? Is there an example?
  - How Do I Use Variables in a Type Step?
  - How do i handle “If” statements to filter in a spreadsheet with TaskMagic?
  - RSS Feed to ChatGPT to Twitter
  - Google Address Autocomplete in Input Field
  - Setting Up Chrome Profiles
  - Trigger Browser Recording to Run From Apps
  - Informational Banners Inside the Automations and What Do They Mean
  - Real Estate Flow With a Happy Customer
  - Can I Use TaskMagic With Google Maps? How?
  - Instagram Follower growth management by following and unfollowing as necessary
  - How Can I Use Filters and Conditional Filtering Within My Flow?
  - How We Automate ChatGPT
  - Scroll Down and Click Next for The Cloudways Agency Partners Directory
  - Sheet Change Trigger (New Row Added or Edited)
  - Does TaskMagic work with google? Does it save my google chrome profiles? What are the google guides?
  - What About Captcha?
  - Sheet Change Trigger (New Row Added or Edited)
- Troubleshooting
  - Clear application cache on mac
  - Try again in a moment
  - My scheduled or triggered runs are failing early but my automation works when I run it from my desktop. The scheduled runs started but encountered multiple errors. The manual runs worked perfectly. What do I do?
  - Out of data? Here is what to do
  - Deleting your workspaces
  - Instagram Scroll Down in follower/following
  - Recording your first automation
  - Recording Bar
  - I finished recording, now what?
  - Play steps button
  - Setup trigger: What it does and how to use it.
  - Google Sheet Change trigger
  - Connecting and exporting data to Google Sheets.
  - Inviting Teammates
  - Triggering based on a schedule
  - Show Task History: How to get ready for scheduled runs.
  - Scraping a list vs individual text
  - Scraping individual text
  - Scraping a URL vs scraping text
  - What’s the difference between exporting and importing data from Google Sheets?
  - How to set check for unread messages
  - Do I have to login to sites to scrape?
  - Can I run more than one automation at a time?
  - What does “turn on” do.
  - Adding custom data (variables) during recording
  - Everything you need to know about automating Instagram
  - What does google sheet undefined out of data mean?
  - What is a selector? And what does it have to do with browser recording?
  - What about Captcha?
  - What to do when you have missed run
  - Have an issue running your automation? Check these three steps.
  - What does a red step indicate?
  - Checking a Scraping List Flow for Not Sending Data
  - My browser window won’t close after running an automation/ browser already in progress. Close browser and replay. What do I do?
  - Why don’t I see a browser window for my scheduled runs/What is a headless browser?
  - How do I handle Browser Window alerts?
  - How to make the page reload
  - How Do I Uninstall the App Then Reinstall It?
  - Mac Desktop Plugin Installation Issue Troubleshooting for Support
  - My Cloud Run Isn't Working
  - Missing Chrome Extension From Chrome Profile
  - My account doesn’t have any cloud hours so it probably didnt fire the automation when i signed up for tier 4
  - My computer keeps turning off so I missed my run. What do i do if this happens?
  - What to do When a Loop Trigger Says “Google Sheet is Out of Data”
  - What to do When You Run an Automation for the First Time in a New Device
  - I cannot log in with my google email to connect my google sheet - getting 404/401 error
How to guides
- How to…
  - How the “Go to page” step works
  - Setting up a GoHighLevel connection
  - How to Automate content (Facebook posts) from MLS listings for Real Estate
  - How to edit your automation name
  - How to automate your chrome extensions
  - Import cookies into your automation
  - How to check for unread messages in LinkedIn, Instagram, email
  - How to re-play a missed run.
  - Automatically document your tasks (SOPs) to train someone.
  - How to Invite Team Members to your account
  - Get monthly add ons.
  - Create, manage and delete workspaces.
  - How to source and then DM your competitors on Instagram.
  - How to Scrape Instagram Usernames for Strategic Insights.
  - How to Automate Messages to Reach a New Audience.
  - How to use TaskMagic to automatically front-end QA test your products (no code or otherwise).
  - How to handle lazy loading on pages.
  - How to handle hovering over elements on a page.
  - How to edit/delete/update/modify a step.
  - How to edit the messages you typed (sent) on an automation?
  - How to grow your YouTube audience.
  - How To Update The Desktop App - Hard Close The Desktop Application To Trigger An update - Mac Users
  - How To Update The Desktop Application - Find The “Check For Update” Feature In the Desktop Application
  - How to check what version you are on and why it’s important to be on the latest version.
  - How do i Access Developer Tools?
  - How To Add A Custom Click Step To An Automation Previously Recorded.
  - How to edit steps when recording an automation.
  - How to recapture a whole automation again.
  - How To Locate The Help Center
  - How To Scrape Data From Any Website To A Google Sheet.
  - What’s the difference between bringing data to and from google sheets and using google sheets trigger?
  - My automation failed, what are the steps i take now?
  - How to copy/paste something inside the recorder
  - How do I remove my google connection?
  - How to send scraped data to a Webhook
  - How the Parse Step works
  - How To Update The Desktop Application - Manually Update The Desktop App
  - How To Reformat Your Spreadsheet To Title Case
  - How to Split First & Last Names Into Separate Columns For Your Google Sheet
  - How to Switch To A New Worksheet For The Same Automation In The Desktop Application
  - How to scrape sites with multiple pages (pagination)
  - Chromium browser is not opening after clicking capture steps, how do I fix that [ WIN | MAC ]?
  - How to encrypt text.
  - How do i change an automation name?
  - How to Scrape Many Searches Using Variables.
  - How to erase an automation.
  - How Do I Toggle Between My Automation Running on Desktop or Cloud?
  - How to customize the recording by using variables with google sheets
  - How Do You Run a Sequence of Automations One Right After Another?
  - How Do I Handle Cloudfare Issues on the Site I'm Trying to Automate?
  - How Do I Adjust, Create, or Manage a Download Path to Save or Upload a File?
  - How to scrape data and make a dashboard from that scraped data
  - How to scrape answers to chatGPT and store them for later use
  - How to white label taskmagic for your customers/clients
  - How to handle popup modals
  - How to change a google sheet or connect a different google sheet
  - How to find the automation ID
  - How to access our AI Workflow Recommendations
  - How to adjust your Linkedin Sourcing Template to grab more contacts
  - How to find the local file path for Upload Files
  - How to add a scroll down (page) step
  - How to randomized liked posts for social media sites.
  - How to collect all the emails of my LinkedIn contacts
  - How to report a bug
  - How to use templates
  - How to include the first name when adding a note to a connection request for Linkedin
  - How To Invite People to My Workspace
  - How To Create and Manage a Workspace
  - How to Create an Automation
  - How and Why to Add a Proxy IP to an Automation
  - How to Record in Multiple Tabs
  - How to Handle Selecting From Hover Dropdown Menus
  - How to Handle Native Browser Pop-Ups
  - How Do I Know If My Automation is Live or Turned Off?
  - How to Play an Automation from the Home Screen
  - How to Delete an Automation
  - How to Add and Manage Tags on the Homescreen
  - How to Duplicate and Share an Automation
  - How to Scrape and Handle Pagination (Multiple Pages)
  - How to Change/Edit My Google Sheet
  - How to Change an Automation Name
  - How Do I Replace a “Selector” When Needed?
  - How to Connect with Pabbly Connect Using Webhook
  - How to Delete an Automation
  - How to Remove or Change an Automation Trigger
  - How to Report a Bug
  - How to Edit a Type Step
  - How to Use Multiple Profiles When Automating Social Sites like Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn (things to keep in mind when using chrome profiles)
  - How to Move an Automation to Another Workspace
  - How to Lock Your Automations and Manage the Private/Public Permissions with Teams
  - Adding a Proxy IP (Browser VPN) to Your Automation
  - How to Add a Navigate Step
  - How to Request a Feature
  - How to Use Variable Data in a Step
  - How to Add Data to Your Automation From a Webhook
  - How to Send To Google Sheets
  - Scraping Leads For Real Estate - Customer Success Story
  - How to Push Data to a Webhook
  - How to Trigger Your Flow With an App
  - How to Change Your Profile Name
  - Clearing a Chrome Profile From Your Automation
  - Uploading & Analyzing Screenshots With Gemini
  - How do i update the desktop app? Are there multiple ways? And how do i make sure i am on the most up to date version?
  - The recorder didn’t pick up the element I was trying to select. How to find selectors if the recorder does not automatically pick up the element you’re trying to capture
  - How To Add A Custom Click Step To An Automation Previously Recorded
  - How To Update The Desktop Application; Manually Update The Desktop App
  - How Do I Remove My Google Sheets Connection?
  - How Do I Connect TaskMagic with Pabbly?
  - How to Switch to A New Worksheet For The Same Automation in the Desktop Application
  - Scraping Promptadvance.club (ChatGPT Prompt Listing Website)
  - How to handle dropdown menus? What are the different examples?
  - Scraping Skool Members to Find Community Creators With Paid Content and Users
  - How to Change Your Email
  - How to Request an App to be Built
  - How to Upload Files to a File Picker
  - Using the Answers From ChatGPT and Using Them Somewhere Else
  - How to Add Data to Your Automation From Google Sheets
  - How to Use HTTP Requests in Apps
  - How to Use Webhooks in Apps
  - How to Edit the Messages You Typed
  - How to Automate Gemini and ChatGPT to then Automate the reading of screenshots/PDFs for lead gen
  - I sell access (a one-time use invite link) to a private Telegram channel using the WooCommerce Subscription plugin. By using make.com I was able to successfully automate a WooCommerce order (trigger) that connects to the Telegram bot, which generates a “one-time use invite link” (action: https://core.telegram.org/bots/api#chatinvitelink) and sends it back to the WooCommerce order, creating a new “Order Notes” (https://woocommerce.com/document/managing-orders/#order-notes). Following that, WooCommerce notifies the customer about the new “Order Note” that has been created in their account.
  - Scraping Results From a Page (Building 2 Automations)
  - Get Current URL
  - How to include the first name when adding a note to a connection request for Linkedin using dynamic variables
  - How to Make Contextual Youtube Comments
  - How to Split First & Last Names Into Separate Columns For Your Google Sheet
  - Scraping Google Search Tips
FAQ
- We’ve been asked…
  - How to download and install TaskMagic on windows.
  - Do I have to download the desktop app?
  - What is a lifetime deal?
  - Are my passwords and data secure?
  - What is included in a team plan?
  - I’ve been invited to a team. What do I have access to?
  - Do you offer a cloud plan? And how does that work?
  - How do I replace a “selector” when needed?
  - How Do I Transfer an Automation
  - Do I need to have my computer open in order for the automations to run?
  - What's the Difference Between Using Webhook to Trigger or Export Before or After a Flow and Using a Flow and Using Webhooks Inside Apps
  - When I Use Automation Tools Like Zapier or Make I Start With My Trigger But in Taskmagic I Start With My Recording and Set Up My Trigger After, Why is That?
  - Can We Add Multiple Cookies from Different Platforms in the Same Automation
  - I did a scrape step and when i went back to the prompt window and pressed edit and it went to advanced settings. There are more advanced settings here than while i was recording other types of steps. Before i only saw “go to step if this step fails” and “enable random delays” but now i see “enable find by text”, “miliseconds we will…@”, “keep formatting (line breaks, etc.), “replace existing step data”. Why are these advanced settings different than my other recorded steps?
  - I want to access or upload a file on my google drive. Whats the best way to do this? via apps or recording?
  - Why would i want to use “find by text”? Hows it helpful to my automation?
  - I pressed a button and now the prompt window is thin and i only see “open” and an “x” and “cancel” which do i press it to get to use it to create my next step?
  - How Can TaskMagic Help Me With My Online Store or Membership Business
  - Can I Reorder My Steps During Recording?
  - What is the second “scroll down” button in the prompt window and how’s it work and why would i need it for my automation? Is it different from the one above?
  - What is the “change tab” button in the prompt window and how’s it work and why would i need it for my automation? Is this the only way to change tabs during recording?
  - What is the “go back” button in the prompt window and how’s it work and why would i need it for my automation?
  - What is the “refresh page” button in the prompt window and how’s it work and why would i need it for my automation? When is it necessary?
  - Do I Need a Proxy IP If I'm Building Using the Apps?
  - How does the task history in the “apps” section and the task history in the taskmagic recording desktop app relate? Are they the same?
  - What is the “screenshot” button in the prompt window and how’s it work and why would i need it for my automation? Whats an example of it in use?
  - Whats the difference between play steps, turn on from desktop, and turn on from cloud?
  - When i invite someone in the apps builder to my workspace does that also invite them to the “apps” builder? how does this work?
  - Ok, I See a Loading Icon and It Keeps Spinning; What Do I Do?
  - How Do I Handle Download Issues? The App is Not Downloading
  - How Do I Remove Duplicates From a Spreadsheet?
  - Im seeing element cannot be found. What steps do i take to manually select an element that can not be found?
  - Does TaskMagic Work With Linux? Why or Why Not?
  - How Do I Get My Previous Invoices?
  - Is the TaskMagic Desktop App for Both Mac and Windows PC?
  - I Don’t See the Chromium Window Showing Up, What Do I Do?
  - I wanted to take a screenshot, so i pressed Screenshot, but i see edit screenshot, and under that i see “overwrite the file name (optional)” and “overwrite the file name (optional). These are both optional, so i pressed save, but i didnt see a screenshot anywhere; how does that work?
  - What is “Buttons?” Is that Cloud?
  - I Got "We Are Unable to Serve Your Request" From Claude Detection, What Do I Do?
  - I purchased a Browser VPN(proxy IP) from TaskMagic, but even when I click on "View my proxies," in the email, the authentication information is not displayed. How do I find this?
  - Is it normal that it takes at least 10 sec to complete a single step (scrape a list)? It seems that each step is now slowed down for completion. It used to be so much faster last time. Is there anything we can do to make it faster?
  - I’m having some issues with automating Claude. How do I set up the automation properly to handle Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini? Does it involve chrome profiles, cookies, proxy IPs?
  - How do I set up and attach my chrome profile to an automation at the beginning? And why do I need the chrome profile?
  - How is setting up chrome profiles different than adding cookies to my automation? And how do I know to use cookies OR chrome profiles?
  - LinkedIn cookies aren’t lasting that long. What are the best practices for saving cookies for LinkedIn
  - Do i need to download the desktop app? How do i download the desktop app?
  - I see the prompt window, but I lost track of the chromium window. Where is it and how do i get it back?
  - I wanted to take a screenshot, so i pressed Screenshot, but i see edit screenshot, what does “overwrite the file name (optional)” mean and how does that work?
  - Inside the prompt window to the right of each recorded step i see three dots. When i click that i see “advanced settings”. When i click it i see the option to check “go to step if this step fails” and “enable random delays”. What does “go to step if this step fails” do and why would i do that?
  - How Do I Delete My Account or Cancel My Subscription?
  - How Do I Stay Logged In For Future Runs of My Automation? Is This a Chrome Profile Thing?
  - What are the Two TaskMagic Windows I See When I Am Recording an Automation?
  - When I Create a New Workspace I Don’t See the Green New Automation Button - Is This Just Me?
  - How Do I Handle Email Verification? Do I Need to Add Cookies Instead?
  - How do i grab third party cookies? What are the benefits of pasting cookies? And do i need to grab cookies or can i log in normally in the recorder?
  - How does TaskMagic handle captcha? I just ran into one during my automation, how do i handle it?
  - I Know My Manual Steps What Do I Do Next? Just Record Them?
  - Whats the Best Way to “Go to Next Row?”
  - What is the difference between “scrape a list” and “scrape single” in the prompt window and do each of them help my automation?
  - When i press scrape single and look at column a. I havent scraped anything yet, but i click on the three dots to the right of of column a. “scrape links” and “scrape image” are crossed out. Why are they crossed out? If theyre crossed out how can i “scrape links” or “scrape images”?
  - When i press scrape single and look at column a, theres nothing there yet, so pressed some text in the page and saw it show up in the first row. But, after i confirmed the step in the lower bar it disappeared and just scraped the one single word, but i needed to add another column. Why did this just scrape one thing and how do i scrape more things?
  - When i press scrape single and look at column a. I havent scraped anything yet, but i click on the three dots to the right of of column a. What are these options best used before i scrape something or AFTER i scrape something? Is there a reason why i need these options before i scrape something into column a?
  - What is the “pause automation” button in the prompt window and how’s it work and why would i need it for my automation?
  - What is the “loop” button in the prompt window and how’s it work and why would i need it for my automation?
  - I see a play icon next to the left of each step in the prompt window while recording. Is this to play that step? And why would i need to play a specific step during recording?
  - I wanted to take a screenshot, so i pressed Screenshot, but i see edit screenshot, what does “enter the path where you would like these to be saved” mean and how does that work?
  - I want to add a “filter” step after recording. Can you show me how this works and how it can benefit an automation? How complex can a “filter” step get? Whats a simple example? And whats a complex example?
  - Can i go back and edit previous steps while im recording without messing up my automation? And what kinds of things can i edit while recording?
  - I started to scrape a list of things, so i pressed scrape a list. I clicked on the first item in my list (that goes to column a), but how do i get the next item i want to go to column b? And column c?
  - Will i see all my “apps” based automations ive made in the apps builder inside the main taskmagic recorder app under workspaces?
  - i just signed up and i got logged into the web app. I see the download screen but i clicked the home screen and didn’t download the desktop app yet. What can i do? What should i do to get started? Do i need to download the desktop app? If so, why do you take me to the web app and let me click around?
  - How do my workspaces from “apps” app builder and TaskMagic recorder work together? are they the same?
  - I requested a feature on your roadmap. How do you focus on what to work on? When will what I requested be addressed?
  - Is there a demo or a free trial or is there a freemium version? Can i try it for free before i buy it?
  - What’s the differences (and similarities) between the plans on AppSumo and the plans listed on the TaskMagic website? And how are the prices going to change if they are?
  - I don’t see the “what’s next?” prompt with the list of things i can do to create the next step in the prompt window and it seems stuck, what do i do?
  - I don’t see my app listed in your apps, do I use a web recording or a webhook if I don’t see my app listed?
  - My computer keeps turning off so I missed my run. What do i do if this happens?
  - The first step is to see if the app I want to automate is listed in the “apps” section is that right? Why is that? And what do I do if I don’t see my app listed? Webhook? Web recording? Which is the next best alternative?
  - Whats the best way to automate email sending? Sending emails via “apps” or sending emails via web recording? Can you do both?
  - Do You Have an Example of How You Break Down a Flow From a Video?
  - How can I learn to think in steps? In other words, I know the function/s I want my automation/s to do, but do not know how to figure out the steps.
  - How Can TaskMagic Help My Business?
  - How do I know that cloud runs are actually running? Is there a way to see it on the front end
  - I Don’t Know What I Want to Automate What Do I Do?
  - Why Do Cookies Only Seem to Work Once?
  - I want to connect an outside app with my wordpress site for my membership. Is this possible?
  - What do you mean when you say TaskMagic is boiling the ocean? Is that about handling edge cases when using TaskMagic or any other browser automation tool?
  - What’s the Difference between a bug and an edge case feature? And why is that important to know when using browser automation?
  - How do i copy and paste something from a spreadsheet? Whats the best way to do this?
  - I normally right click to copy/paste something in the web, how do i simply copy something i want to paste during a recording?
  - How Do I Create a Chatbot in TaskMagic? Where Does it Get the Training Data?
  - I Can't send File via Webhook Using JSON. Is this possible?
  - If using cookies doesn’t work, then what? Should I just use chrome profiles if cookies isn’t working?
  - Is it best to use the excel app? Or use excel in the recorder? How do i use that?
  - Is TaskMagic Recorder Like Running a Macro in Excel
  - What is a Selector and What Does it Have to do With Browser Recording?
  - What is meant by “front-end”? And why would I want to trigger something based on something changing on the front-end?
  - What’s the difference between using google sheets app inside an automation and connecting google sheets as a trigger or exporting to google sheets
  - Is TaskMagic Right for My Business??
  - TaskMagic didn’t work on the site I was trying to record my steps on. What do I do?
  - There is how do I automate something and then there is how do I automate it in TASKMAGIC. Whats the difference?
  - “find by text to train your ai”this just trains ai to FIND - sounds way more interesting
  - I have a couple questions about creating content in ChatGPT please using TaskMagic. I did watch one of your videos on this use case but left little confused about capabilty. 1. Let's say I have a Google Doc with 100+ article topics. Then I have a series of 13 prompts whicn creates the first draft step-by-step. The content is first researched using prompts, and then the article is written in ChatGPT into sections (e.g. intro, body and conclusion). How would I be automate the process using this app to apply those 13 prompts to ChatGPT before then extracting just the completed intro, body and conclusion text into corresponsing Google Sheet cells for each of the article topics, leaving out the research output from ChatGPT from the Google sheet. 2. What happens with the TaskMagic when ChatGPT 4 reaches the output limit for the hour?
  - Can a Delay step be a variable? For example, a random number between .2 and 10? This could better simulate human behavior.
  - With a list trigger, Is there a way to tell the automation to loop through all the filled rows in the Google Sheet rather than hard coding to the last row?
  - What’s the difference between AppSumo tier 4 and AppSumo tier 5? Do I need cloud and a proxy IP?
  - Is Scraping Legal?
  - How Does Cloud Runtime Work/Get Tracked?
  - My virtual assistant reads my docs and looks for specific things. Can TaskMagic read screenshots or docs for me?
  - What’s the difference between apps (like zapier and make) and web automation (TaskMagic)
  - When I went to add a new connection inside apps, it redirected me back to active pieces and asked to give active pieces permissions? Why is this? Is this ok?
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What is a selector? And what does it have to do with browser recording?

What is a selector?

Last updated on August 4, 2023

What are selectors?

Selectors are unique (in a perfect world) ways for us to find/identify an element on a page. There are numerous things TaskMagic is using to correctly determine what you did and how to recreate it and the first step is generating a list of possible selectors for this element. Sometimes, those may change or be wrong which is why things like Find By Text are provided to the user. Selectors can be updated by clicking on the 3 dots next to any step then clicking update selectors. We accept any css selectors, xpaths or puppeteer expressions.

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