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#31
This is awesome. I was just trying to get a rudimentary version of this for some "user" interaction heavy data extraction. Definitely giving it a try.

For a case with lots of requests how does Autotab handle ip-blocking? Does each run use a different portal instance?

Re: Show HN: Autotab – Programmable AI browser for turning web tasks into APIs

#32

This is awesome. I was just trying to get a rudimentary version of this for some "user" interaction heavy data extraction. Definitely giving it a try. For a case with lots of requests how does Autotab handle ip-blocking? Does each run use a different portal instance?

When you run Autotab in the app it runs locally, so no IP blocking issues there. If you want to run it in the cloud eg via API, by default your IP will be from the data center but we have residential proxies that we can enable on a case by case basis.

Re: Show HN: Autotab – Programmable AI browser for turning web tasks into APIs

#33

I see it's able to perform data extraction, but what if you wanted to enter in data from another system, or generated by an LLM during the workflow?

I don’t know what your intention is but I imagine that’s how more and more are going to push LLM slop on all corners of the internet. It’ll be easy to do in massive quantities.

Re: Show HN: Autotab – Programmable AI browser for turning web tasks into APIs

#34

This is awesome. I was just trying to get a rudimentary version of this for some "user" interaction heavy data extraction. Definitely giving it a try. For a case with lots of requests how does Autotab handle ip-blocking? Does each run use a different portal instance?

When you run Autotab in the app it runs locally, so no IP blocking issues there. If you want to run it in the cloud eg via API, by default your IP will be from the data center but we have residential proxies that we can enable on a case by case basis.

> we have residential proxies that we can enable on a case by case basis.

Who is your vendor for residential proxies? That’s quite a sketchy industry.

Re: Show HN: Autotab – Programmable AI browser for turning web tasks into APIs

#35

This is awesome. I was just trying to get a rudimentary version of this for some "user" interaction heavy data extraction. Definitely giving it a try. For a case with lots of requests how does Autotab handle ip-blocking? Does each run use a different portal instance?

When you run Autotab in the app it runs locally, so no IP blocking issues there. If you want to run it in the cloud eg via API, by default your IP will be from the data center but we have residential proxies that we can enable on a case by case basis.

Just tried it - very cool indeed. I did a page loop extraction but it seems to be the same speed when I run it. The elements I am doing the loop on look pretty much the same, just different images. I think it would be great if it was able to generalize how to find an element like with css selectors for example to speed up once its sure that is the data you are looking to extract for a given loop.

Re: Show HN: Autotab – Programmable AI browser for turning web tasks into APIs

#36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When you run Autotab in the app it runs locally, so no IP blocking issues there. If you want to run it in the cloud eg via API, by default your IP will be from the data center but we have residential proxies that we can enable on a case by case basis.

Just tried it - very cool indeed. I did a page loop extraction but it seems to be the same speed when I run it. The elements I am doing the loop on look pretty much the same, just different images. I think it would be great if it was able to generalize how to find an element like with css selectors for example to speed up once its sure that is the data you are looking to extract for a given loop.

Totally agree, making page loop faster is on the top of our list of things to do! There are cases where you need page loop to do quite a bit of reasoning so it will be this slow until models get faster, but we can make it a lot faster today on happy paths - stay tuned :)

Re: Show HN: Autotab – Programmable AI browser for turning web tasks into APIs

#38

This is awesome! What is your most common use case? Have you thought of competing with https://scribehow.com/ in the documentation space?

Thanks! Our most common use cases are repetitive tasks people have at work, think updating Hubspot with analytics data from an internal tool or reconciling payments between an invoicing system, a payment system and a CRM.

Haven’t done a lot with Scribe-like documentation cases. Given the pace at which this technology is developing we’re focused on making Autotab really good at the most economically valuable tasks.

Re: Show HN: Autotab – Programmable AI browser for turning web tasks into APIs

#39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When you run Autotab in the app it runs locally, so no IP blocking issues there. If you want to run it in the cloud eg via API, by default your IP will be from the data center but we have residential proxies that we can enable on a case by case basis.

> we have residential proxies that we can enable on a case by case basis. Who is your vendor for residential proxies? That’s quite a sketchy industry.

We use a range of different providers, it really depends on the customer and use case. We only enable the proxy in rare cases that need it for a specific reason.

Re: Show HN: Autotab – Programmable AI browser for turning web tasks into APIs

#40
Is Autotab able to scrape data from multiple websites with different structures and combine this data into structured data in one CSV or JSON file? Example: scrape interest rates offered on savings accounts from multiple bank websites and extract the name of the bank, bank logo, product name and interest rate for each account and run this saved query on a regular schedule (daily, weekly etc)?
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