Manage tasks built with AI Assistant

Tasks built with AI Assistant are saved to your task list, next to your other Octoparse tasks. For how tasks relate to the chats that built them, see Chats and tasks. To change how a task collects, use Resume Chat. To change what it collects, such as keywords or URLs, use Edit input.

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Find your tasks

Open your task list. Tasks built with Browser Use and Cloud Agent appear there, along with tasks from templates and Auto-detect. Tasks from Auto-detect are regular Octoparse Desktop tasks, so you edit and run them like any other Desktop task. See Edit the task in Octoparse Desktop. The rest of this page covers Browser Use and Cloud Agent tasks.

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What you can do with each task

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Change how it collects with Resume Chat

Select Resume Chat in the task’s menu to go back to the chat that built the task. Tell AI Assistant what to change, such as adding a field, using a filter, or collecting from a different page. For Browser Use tasks, Octoparse in Chrome needs to be installed and turned on.

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Change what it collects with Edit input

For Cloud Agent tasks, select Edit input in the task’s menu. A page opens where you can change the inputs, such as keywords, URLs, or locations. Some tasks also have a Task details tab that explains what the task collects and how to use it; the inputs are then on the Input tab. Select Save to keep your changes, or Start to save them and run the task. Use Task Settings on the same page to rename the task.

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Run and schedule

To start a run, select the run button on the task in your task list. On Free and Basic, runs count toward your monthly rows. To run a Cloud Agent task regularly, select Schedule Runs in the task’s menu. Scheduling needs Standard or above. See Schedule task runs.

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Unfinished tasks

A task is added to your task list as soon as a build starts. If the build is stopped or fails, the task stays there but can’t run yet. Hover over its run button to see why:

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Export and integrations

Select the data button on the task to see the collected data, then export it. It’s labeled View Data for Browser Use tasks and View Cloud Data for Cloud Agent tasks. Data from AI Assistant tasks can be exported and sent to other tools like data from any other task.