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Cloud Browser

The cloud browser lets a CloudAxis specialist visit real websites, sign in, click through multi-step flows, and scrape data — with sessions that route from your country and a live view you can watch as it works.

What it lets a specialist do

  • Navigate to a URL, click links and buttons, fill and submit forms, and scroll through a page like a person would.
  • Sign in to a site using credentials you provide, then act on the logged-in view — export data, check a status, submit a form.
  • Take screenshots at different screen widths to check how a page renders.
  • Scrape text, tables, and prices from a page and hand the result back as structured data.
  • Download files a site produces (a CSV export, an invoice) straight into your workspace.

How to enable it

The cloud browser is a built-in capability — it doesn't need a Launchpad connection to work on public sites. Confirm it's turned on for a specialist whose role involves browsing, since Cloudia usually enables it by default for research- or operations-focused roles.

  1. Open the specialist's settings and confirm Cloud Browser is on.
  2. If a task needs a login, give the specialist the credentials once. For sensitive accounts, set autonomy to Ask me first so it pauses before submitting anything.
  3. Start the task in chat, or attach it to a scheduled duty.
  4. Open the live session view from the dashboard to watch the browser act in real time.
  5. Approve any hold points — like a payment step or a terms-of-service checkbox — from the Approvals inbox or WhatsApp.

Where sessions run

Cloud browser sessions route from your country, so location-sensitive pages — regional pricing, availability, localized content — show what a visitor there would actually see, rather than what a server somewhere else would get.

Examples

  • "Log into our admin panel, export this week's signups as a CSV, and save it to my workspace."
  • "Go through our checkout flow as a new customer and tell me if anything breaks."
  • "Check these 10 competitor pricing pages and put the numbers in a table."
Use non-production or test accounts for anything destructive while you're testing a flow — a browsing specialist follows instructions literally, including a "confirm purchase" click if you ask for one.

Limits, honestly

  • Sites with aggressive bot defenses — hard CAPTCHAs, strict blocking — can fail outright. Have a fallback for those.
  • A session takes as long as the site does; long multi-step flows can run a few minutes rather than seconds.
  • Destructive actions (payments, deleting records, agreeing to contracts) should stay on Ask-me-first rather than Act on its own.

Plan minimum: the cloud browser is available from the Free plan; each session draws from your monthly credits, so frequent or long-running browsing duties fit more comfortably on Growth, Pro, or Max — see Pricing.