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Mahesh
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How to Automate Browsers using Browserless & Hermes Agent

Most of the automation on the web is through browser automation. Especially when it comes to scraping, data mining, and variety of the data extraction tasks.

I started using Hermes agent and run most of the tasks through it. It makes it easier than the n8n and other complicated workflows which can be painful to setup.

I recently started automating and perform certain browser automations through browserless. I also made the browserless connect Hermes Agent through API. Take a look at my process to set things up.

What does Browserless do better?

I had used firecrawl in the past. I may have to review it again. But browserless I used to export the data and the web page to the PDF and also to take the website screenshot.

You have certain amount of credits that you can use for the automation. Take example of the Hermes Agent with the tasks to extract certain type of the data and then make the output stored on the CSV. Which we can do with it easily.

Hermes agent can take your prompt then create a python script and then run any of your automation when you schedule it. And it can also store the output, gauge performance and it keeps on going with the learning from failure.

Considering the API is officially supported. I would recommend you to connect the Browserless API with the Hermes Agent and automate your small to large browser automation tasks.

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