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BrowserAct on WhatsApp: manage tasks and workflow templates with an AI agent
Flann turns BrowserAct into something you can message. Ask on WhatsApp, by text or voice note, and Flann does the work in BrowserAct for you. Some of what you need to know sits outside your business: a competitor’s menu, a supplier’s catalogue, the public listings in your area. Through BrowserAct, Flann can gather that web data on request and lay it out next to your own figures, so a decision about pricing or stock rests on more than a hunch.
11 actions in BrowserAct. 7 only look things up, and 4 create, update, send or delete. You connect with your API key.
What you can ask Flann to do in BrowserAct
You do not need the exact wording. These are the kinds of messages Flann turns into BrowserAct actions.
“Look up the task in BrowserAct.”
“Look up the workflow in BrowserAct.”
“Show me my proxy regions in BrowserAct.”
“Cancel the task in BrowserAct.”
What Flann can work with in BrowserAct
BrowserAct gives Flann 11 actions across 4 kinds of record. These are the ones you are most likely to use.
| Record | What Flann can do | Actions |
|---|---|---|
| Tasks | cancellook upresume | 4 |
| Workflow templates | look up | 2 |
| Workflows | look up | 2 |
Here is what changes when BrowserAct goes through Flann instead of its own screens.
| Compare | In BrowserAct yourselfYou click through each job | Flann on BrowserActYou ask, Flann does the clicking |
|---|---|---|
| Asking for something | Open the app and find the right page | A WhatsApp message, typed or spoken |
| Finding answers about tasks | Filters and searches you run yourself | 7 look-ups, answered straight away |
| Making changes | Typed in by hand | 4 changes, made from a message |
| BrowserAct records | All of them, one screen at a time | 4 kinds, from one chat |
| Getting connected | Nothing new to set up | Your BrowserAct API key, once |
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Step by step: BrowserAct jobs you can hand to Flann
How a request turns into real BrowserAct actions, one step at a time.
Fix a task without opening BrowserAct
- You message Flann on WhatsApp: “Change the task in BrowserAct: here is what is different.”
- Flann runs
List Tasksin BrowserAct and shows you what it found. - Flann runs
Cancel Taskin BrowserAct. - Flann makes the change in BrowserAct and confirms in the chat.
Get answers about your workflows
- You message Flann on WhatsApp: “What is the latest on our workflows in BrowserAct?”
- Flann runs
List WorkflowsandGet Workflowin BrowserAct and shows you what it found. - Nothing in BrowserAct is changed: these are look-ups, so they run straight away.
Check your workflow templates from WhatsApp
- You message Flann on WhatsApp: “Show me where our workflow templates in BrowserAct stand.”
- Flann runs
List Workflow TemplatesandGet Workflow Templatein BrowserAct and shows you what it found. - Nothing in BrowserAct is changed: these are look-ups, so they run straight away.
Where Flann saves you time in BrowserAct
Small jobs, repeated often, are where the time goes. Here is how they change once BrowserAct is connected.
Your weekly numbers on Monday morning
Today
Every Monday you log into BrowserAct, set the date range, compare it with the week before and try to remember what normal looks like. By the time the picture is clear, the week has started without you.
With Flann
“How are we doing? Last week against the week before, from BrowserAct.”
Flann pulls the main figures from BrowserAct, sets them against the previous week and sends a report card in the chat with the few changes worth your attention. Ask a follow-up and it digs into the detail.
What you stop doing: Setting date ranges and comparing columns by eye every Monday is finished.
Keeping an eye on competitors
Today
Checking what nearby competitors charge means visiting several websites and writing it all down. So it happens once a year, if that.
With Flann
“Use BrowserAct to check what the gyms near us charge for a monthly membership.”
Using BrowserAct, Flann gathers the published membership prices from those gyms’ websites and lays them out next to yours in one short table. It notes the date it checked, since prices change. Nothing on your side changes, and nothing is sent anywhere.
What you stop doing: Visiting competitor websites one by one with a notepad is a thing of the past.
More on this: how to hand repetitive tasks to an AI agent on WhatsApp.
How Flann connects to BrowserAct
- Open Connectors in Flann and choose BrowserAct.
- Paste your BrowserAct API key into the secure form Flann opens. You will find the key in your BrowserAct account settings.
- Go back to WhatsApp and ask for what you need. Flann chooses the BrowserAct action and fills in the details.
Of the 11 BrowserAct actions, 7 only read. The other 4 create, update, send or delete. Disconnect BrowserAct in Connectors whenever you like.
Ways to use BrowserAct with Flann
A weekly summary on demand
Ask Flann for the week in brief. It reads BrowserAct and sends the few numbers worth knowing.
Check before you decide
Before a big call, ask Flann for the figure that matters. It looks it up in BrowserAct first.
Spot what changed
Ask what went up or down. Flann checks BrowserAct and tells you what moved.
Everything Flann can do in BrowserAct
Every BrowserAct action Flann can run, split into what it reads and what it changes.
Looks up 7
- Get Task
- Get Workflow
- Get Workflow Template
- List Proxy Regions
- List Tasks
- List Workflow Templates
- List Workflows
Changes 4
- Cancel Task
- Resume Task
- Run Workflow
- Run Workflow Template
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What can Flann do with tasks in BrowserAct?
Flann can cancel, look up and resume tasks in BrowserAct, using 4 actions (Cancel Task, Get Task, List Tasks, Resume Task). Looking up runs straight away and changes nothing. The other actions create or change tasks in BrowserAct.
What can Flann do with workflow templates in BrowserAct?
Flann can look up workflow templates in BrowserAct, using 2 actions (Get Workflow Template, List Workflow Templates). All of them only look things up, so they run straight away.
How does Flann connect to BrowserAct?
Open Connectors in Flann, choose BrowserAct and paste your BrowserAct API key into a secure form. You will find the key in your BrowserAct account settings. Once it is connected, Flann can use 11 actions in BrowserAct.
Do I need to open BrowserAct to use it with Flann?
No. Once BrowserAct is connected, you ask Flann on WhatsApp or in the Flann app, by text or voice note, and it does the work in BrowserAct.
Does connecting BrowserAct cost extra?
No. BrowserAct is included in every Flann plan, along with every other app Flann connects to.