How to automate repetitive browser tasks: show the job once, then put it on a schedule

Updated 2026-11-06 · Leviosa AI

The easiest way to automate a repetitive browser task is to do it once while recording, and hand the recording to an AI agent that learns the job. The agent does the same steps, keeps the job as a skill, and can run it on a schedule: every morning at 8, every hour, every Monday. Unlike a click recorder, it reads the page each time instead of clicking fixed spots, so a moved button doesn't break it. Below are the ways to automate browser work, which jobs fit, and how to set one up.

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Which browser tasks are worth automating

A good candidate repeats, takes more than a few minutes, and you could explain it to a new hire in a paragraph.

• Copying orders or numbers from one site into a spreadsheet.
• Checking the same ten pages for changes: prices, stock, new reviews.
• Entering tracking numbers from an email into a seller center.
• Downloading the same report from three admin panels every week.
• Filling the same form with data from a sheet.
• Answering the same kind of message after looking something up.

Five ways to automate browser work

If a site has an API and the job is the same thousand times a day, use an integration. For the rest, compare a macro and an agent. APIs vs browser agents goes deeper.

Macros and RPA vs an AI agent

A macro remembers where you clicked. An agent remembers what you were trying to do. That difference decides most of it.

• Page changes. A macro clicks the same spot. If the site moves a button, it clicks the wrong thing. An agent finds the button by its label. A big redesign can still confuse it, so watch the first runs after one.
• Judgement. A macro can't decide whether a review is angry or which order is late. An agent can.
• Exceptions. A popup, a sign-in prompt or an empty result stops a macro. An agent reads what appeared and deals with it, or asks you.
• Speed and cost. A macro is faster and runs on nothing. An agent runs on an AI model and is slower.

RPA platforms sit in between: sturdier than macros, built for rule-based processes at scale, and usually set up by IT. For a one-person business they are often more than the job needs.

Show it once: teaching an agent by recording

1. Press record and do the job in the browser the way you always do. Talk through anything that isn't on screen, such as "skip orders marked gift".
2. The agent watches the recording and works out the steps and the reason for each.
3. It does the job itself while you watch.
4. It offers to keep the job as a skill, so next time you just ask for it by name.

Showing is faster than explaining for jobs with many small steps, and it catches the things you'd forget to say.

Put it on a schedule

Once the job runs clean, make it a routine: a job the agent runs on its own at a set time. Examples: orders and stock at 8am, DMs every hour, a report every Monday. Start with jobs that only read and report. Jobs that change something, such as sending a message or publishing, should still stop for your OK.

Step by step

1. Pick one task you did at least three times last week.
2. Write the result you want in one sentence: "a sheet of yesterday's orders with tracking".
3. Record it once, or describe it like you would to a new hire.
4. Watch the first run and correct anything it got wrong.
5. Run it three more times by hand, checking the result.
6. Put it on a schedule. Keep approvals on for anything that sends or publishes.

Doing it with Yomates

Yomates is a free desktop app from Leviosa AI with a team of AI agents, each driving a real browser inside the app on your computer. You watch it work and can take the keyboard back at any moment.

• Show it once. Press record and do a job in the browser. The agent watches the recording, does the same, and offers to keep it as a skill. Reading a recording uses credits.
• Skills and memory. An agent writes itself a skill once it has worked out a site, and remembers what you told it.
• Routines. Any job on a schedule: 8am orders and stock, hourly DMs, a Monday report.
• Any website. It works on any site through the browser, including admin panels and seller centers with no API, and connects to more than a thousand apps such as Gmail, Slack, Google Sheets and Notion.
• Approvals. Before anything is published, submitted or sent, the agent stops and asks for your OK.
• Logins. Kept in an encrypted vault on your computer or in 1Password, filled in without the agent reading them.

It runs on the ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini plan you already have, or an API key, on Apple Silicon Macs, Windows PCs and Debian-based Linux. Your computer has to be on for a routine to run. For store jobs in particular, see Shopify automation, or start at the Yomates home page.