WebTaskFlow - Auto Refresh, Website Monitor & Browser Automation

Description

Automate the Web. Your Way. Refresh, monitor, schedule, and automate user-selected websites with local-first workflows. Automate the repetitive parts of browsing Chrome without writing code. WebTaskFlow lets you auto refresh a webpage on a schedule, monitor a website for changes, and build multi-step browser workflows that click, type, wait, and react — all from one extension, with a local-first core and no account required for core automation. Full V1 Pro access is free during the launch period. No credit card, no automatic billing. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔄 AUTO REFRESH & PAGE RELOAD ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Keep a webpage refreshed automatically instead of reloading it by hand. - Fixed Interval — reload at one exact, consistent interval - Random Interval — vary the delay between a minimum and maximum - Custom Interval — set precise hours, minutes, and seconds - Hard Refresh — a stronger reload when cached content gets in the way - Refresh Count Limit — stop automatically after a set number of reloads - Visual Countdown — see the next refresh time directly on the page - Pause / Restart on Interaction — refreshing pauses while you're actively using the page Fixed Interval is best when you need predictable, evenly-spaced reloads — a live dashboard, a status page, a scoreboard. Random Interval instead spreads reloads unevenly across a range, which is useful on pages where a perfectly regular pattern isn't what you want. Hard Refresh forces a stronger reload when a normal refresh may still be showing cached page resources instead of the latest version — it is not a full Chrome cache wipe, just a stronger reload of that page. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 👁 WEBSITE CHANGE MONITORING ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Stop checking the same page again and again. Tell WebTaskFlow what matters and get alerted when it happens. - Found — trigger when something appears (a message, a label, an element) - Lost — trigger when something disappears - Change — trigger when monitored content changes (a price, a value, a status) - Visible Text Target — the simplest way to target what you already see on the page - Regular Expression Target — pattern-based matching for advanced cases - CSS Selector Target — precise targeting by page structure - XPath Target — precise targeting for advanced page structures - Whole Visible Page — monitor the full visible content, not just one element - Real-Time Detection — checks for changes during the page load, not only after - Highlight Matches — visually highlights the detected content on the page - Scan Now — run the monitoring check immediately, on demand Website monitoring is one of the most common reasons people install an extension like this: watching for a product to come back in stock, a price to change, a job listing to appear, or a support ticket status to update. Start with Visible Text — it covers most everyday monitoring needs without any technical setup. Regex, CSS Selector, and XPath remain available underneath for advanced, precise targeting when a simple text match isn't specific enough. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🧩 NO-CODE BROWSER AUTOMATION (WORKFLOWS) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Build a multi-step browser task once, visually, and let WebTaskFlow run it for you. - Click Element — automate clicking a button or link - Type Into Field — automate filling in a text field - Wait Duration / Wait For Element / Wait Until Enabled — control timing so steps run when the page is actually ready - Scroll To Element — bring an element into view before interacting with it - Press Key — simulate a keyboard action - Open URL — navigate to a target page as part of the workflow - Refresh Page — combine a reload into a larger workflow - Check Page Text — verify page content mid-workflow - Validated IF / ELSE — branch the workflow based on a condition - Timeouts & Retries — retry a step instead of failing the whole workflow on a slow page - Visual Workflow Builder — build the sequence step by step, visually - Test Individual Step — test one step at a time before running the full workflow - Run Now / Draft, Enable & Pause — control exactly when a saved workflow is active This is more than a recorded macro. Workflows can wait for the right moment, check a condition, branch with IF / ELSE, retry a step that didn't work the first time, and recover — instead of blindly replaying the same fixed sequence of clicks every time, which breaks the moment a page loads a little slower than expected. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🖱 VISUAL PICKER — POINT, SELECT, AUTOMATE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ - Select any supported webpage element directly with your mouse - Use the selected element immediately as a workflow target - No manual CSS Selector or XPath writing required for everyday setup Most people building a browser workflow are not developers and shouldn't need to be. Point at the button, field, or text you care about, click it, and WebTaskFlow uses it as the target. CSS Selector and XPath remain available underneath for advanced, precise targeting — but the normal path to building a workflow doesn't require writing either one by hand. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏰ SCHEDULING & TASK TIMING ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ - Duration Timer / Date & Time Timer — start automation after a delay or at an exact moment - Recurring Refresh Window / Overnight Windows — run only during chosen time windows - Independent Weekdays — pick specific days for a saved automation to run - Skip Missed Run / Open If Missing — decide what happens if Chrome wasn't open when a run was due - Run When Chrome Returns — startup reconciliation applies missed-run handling once Chrome is available again WebTaskFlow runs as a Chrome extension, so it cannot actively execute automation while Chrome is completely closed — when Chrome becomes available again, startup reconciliation and your configured missed-run handling take over from there. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔐 SESSION RECOVERY ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Don't let an expired login end a long-running workflow. For configured workflows, Session Recovery can handle an expected multi-step login flow, return to the intended target, and resume the automation. Credentials used for Session Recovery are kept separate from ordinary settings, exports, activity logs, run records, and syncable settings — they are not treated like normal workflow data. Session Recovery is configuration-driven and does not bypass CAPTCHA, security challenges, or every login system. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🗂 TABS, WORKSPACE & ACTIVITY ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ - Live Tabs — see which tabs currently have active automation - Automation & Background Targets — manage where saved automations run - Structured Run History & Searchable Activity Logs — review what ran, when, and what happened - Notification Center & Browser Notifications — surface detections and workflow results - Safe Settings Import & Export — move your configuration without exposing sensitive credentials - Diagnostics — sanitized export for troubleshooting ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ WHAT YOU CAN AUTOMATE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ★ Know when a webpage changes ★ Know when a product becomes available ★ Detect when a displayed price changes ★ Keep a dashboard or status page updated automatically ★ Automate repetitive form filling ★ Run a saved browser automation on a schedule ★ Stop repeating the same clicks, typing, and checks by hand ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ❓ FAQ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Do I need to write code? No. Most workflows are built visually using supported actions and the Visual Picker. CSS Selector and XPath remain available as advanced targeting options. Can WebTaskFlow auto refresh webpages? Yes — Fixed, Random, and Custom timing, plus Hard Refresh where appropriate. Can it monitor website changes? Yes — Found, Lost, and Change detection using visible text, Regex, CSS Selector, or XPath. Can it automate clicks and forms? Yes — Click, Type, Wait, Navigation, Checks, Conditions, Notifications, and more. Can I schedule tasks? Yes — selected run times, independent weekdays, missed-run handling, and Open If Missing. Does it work while Chrome is completely closed? No. WebTaskFlow runs as a Chrome extension. Startup reconciliation and missed-run handling apply once Chrome becomes available again, based on your configuration. What happens if a website logs me out mid-workflow? Configured Session Recovery can handle a supported multi-step login recovery flow and return to the intended target. Do I need a WebTaskFlow account? No account is required for core V1 automation. Is WebTaskFlow free? The complete current V1 feature set is available at $0 during the launch period, with no credit card and no automatic billing. Future plan changes will be communicated before they take effect. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔒 PRIVACY ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WebTaskFlow V1 is local-first: core automation runs from your browser and does not require a WebTaskFlow account. Sensitive Session Recovery credentials are kept separate from ordinary settings, activity logs, run records, exports, and diagnostics. Website access is used only for the pages and actions you configure. Read the full Privacy Policy: https://webtaskflow.com/privacy/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Refresh less. Check less. Repeat less. Build the task once and let WebTaskFlow handle the browser steps for you.

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