Building Your First Bot in Browser Automation Studio

The fastest way to understand Browser Automation Studio is to build something tiny that actually runs. This walkthrough takes you from an empty project to a bot that opens a page, pulls data, and loops - the skeleton of almost every real project.

Step 1: Create a new project

Open BAS and create a blank project. You’ll see the record panel, the action list (your flow), and the embedded browser. The flow is the program; everything you do is an ordered list of nodes here.

Step 2: Record a navigation

Press record, type a URL into the embedded browser, and navigate. BAS captures the navigation as a node. Stop recording and press run - the bot should repeat exactly what you did. This record-then-replay loop is the core working rhythm of BAS.

Step 3: Extract data from the page

Add a data-extraction step targeting an element - a title, a price, a list. Use a stable CSS selector rather than the recorded screen position, because positions break the moment layout shifts. Store the result in a variable so later steps can use it.

Step 4: Add a loop

Real bots repeat. Wrap your extraction in a loop that walks a list - pages, search results, or rows of input data. This is the jump from “a recorded macro” to “a program”: the same logic applied across many items.

Step 5: Run in multiple threads

Set the thread count above one and BAS spins up independent browser instances running your flow in parallel. Keep per-thread data (accounts, proxies) separate so threads don’t collide. This is how a single project scales from one run to hundreds.

Common first-bot mistakes

• No waits. Pages load asynchronously; add wait-for-element steps before acting.
• Recorded coordinates. Prefer selectors - they survive layout changes.
• Shared state across threads. Give each thread its own account and proxy.

Once this skeleton feels natural, the next thing every serious project needs is proxies - covered in the companion article.