Scheduled Tasks

Scheduled AI Browser Agents — Run Web Tasks on a Cron

The most valuable automation is the kind that runs without you. Browse Anything lets you schedule any AI browser task — a scrape, a report, a monitor, a post — on cron, hourly, daily, or weekly. Results land in your inbox, Slack, Telegram, Google Sheets, or webhook. Set once, forget about it.

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If you can prompt it, you can schedule it
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If you can prompt it, you can schedule it

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$9.99

Per month, scheduled tasks included

Why scheduling is where AI agents pay for themselves

Most demos of AI browser agents are one-off: "Go book me a flight." Cool, but the agent is just replacing a 5-minute task. Scheduling flips the economics. When the same agent runs every morning at 7am for a year, that single prompt has done 365 jobs you didn't have to think about. The investment is the same — five minutes to write the prompt — but the return scales infinitely with each repetition.

Scheduled AI agents are how individuals do the work of teams. A single founder with 10 scheduled prompts can run a competitive intelligence operation, a multi-portal lead-gen pipeline, a content distribution engine, and a daily research briefing — every day, on $9.99/mo. The same workload at an enterprise would require an analyst, an ops engineer, and three SaaS subscriptions totaling $1,500+/mo.

Browse Anything makes scheduling a first-class feature on every plan, including the free tier. You don't need to set up infrastructure, write cron scripts, or pay for a separate scheduler. Every task you can prompt, you can schedule.

How scheduling works in Browse Anything

Each task you create — whether through the web UI, the API, the Telegram bot, or the ClawHub skill — can be marked as scheduled. The scheduler runs in our infrastructure (not yours), so no servers or workers to maintain.

  • Cron expressions for power usersFull cron syntax (* * * * *). Run at 7:00 every weekday, at 5pm on the first of each month, or every 15 minutes during business hours — your call.
  • Human-friendly intervalsDon't know cron? Pick from presets: hourly, every 3 hours, daily at 8am, weekly on Monday morning, monthly on the 1st. Most tasks fit one of these.
  • Timezone-awareSchedules respect your account timezone. "7am daily" means 7am Paris, not 7am UTC.
  • Conditional alertsRun every hour but only alert if something changes. "Email me when X drops below $50" or "Telegram me when this page contains a new product card." Silent in steady state, loud on signal.
  • Output routing per runEach scheduled task can route results to one or more destinations: Google Sheets append, Notion database insert, webhook POST, Slack message, Telegram message, email digest, or just save to your workspace history.
  • Run history and audit trailEvery execution stores the full task trace, screenshots, structured output, and any errors. Replay any past run, export historical data, or debug why a particular run failed — all in one place.

Patterns to copy from real customers

These are the highest-leverage scheduled workflows running on Browse Anything today. Each one represents 5+ hours of weekly time savings or a capability the user previously didn't have at all.

  • Morning briefing at 7amOne scheduled task at 7am pulls news headlines from 3 sources, the calendar for the day, any new GitHub issues on your repos, and any new mentions of your brand on social. Lands as a single Telegram message before you finish your coffee.
  • End-of-day digest at 6pmScheduled task at 6pm pulls every conversation that happened today across Intercom, Crisp, support email, and your community Slack. Summarizes themes, tags urgency. The summary is your handoff to tomorrow-you.
  • Hourly price-drop monitoringWatch 50 product pages across competitors. Alert only when a price moves more than 5%. Silent 99% of the time; saves you from manually checking and ensures you catch every change.
  • Daily lead pipeline at 5amBefore you wake up: scrape 4 lead sources, dedupe against your CRM, enrich with company data, score against your ICP, push the top 20 to Salesforce. You start the day with 20 qualified leads in your queue.
  • Weekly Monday digestEvery Monday 8am: competitor blog posts published last week, new hires they made, pricing changes, new ad creatives. One unified strategy report instead of seven separate tools.
  • Cron-based content distributionWednesday 10am: post the LinkedIn-formatted version of this week's article. Thursday 9am: post the X thread version. Friday 11am: post the Instagram carousel script in Notion for the design team. The whole content calendar runs itself.

Comparison to other scheduling approaches

Most people who want to schedule web automation today choose one of four options, each with major limitations. Browse Anything sits in a different category.

  • Cron + custom scriptsCheap but high maintenance. Every site redesign breaks something. You're an unpaid SRE for your own tools. Browse Anything removes the maintenance burden by replacing selectors with AI semantic extraction.
  • Zapier or Make scheduled scenariosGreat glue, but limited to apps with APIs. Most websites don't have an API. Browse Anything fills that gap and can be triggered from Zapier/Make as one step in a larger automation.
  • GitHub Actions / Vercel cronWorks if you can code and deploy. Browse Anything's scheduling is built-in, no deploy required, and the agent is far more robust than ad-hoc Playwright scripts for real-world sites.
  • n8n / Activepieces self-hostedSelf-hosted workflow tools shine for API orchestration but rely on third-party scrapers for browser tasks. Browse Anything ships as a node in n8n (community-built) and as a skill on ClawHub, so you get the orchestration layer of n8n with the agent intelligence of Browse Anything.
  • Enterprise RPA (UiPath, Automation Anywhere)Powerful but $50-300k/year minimum. Browse Anything covers 80% of the same use cases at $9.99/mo with a fraction of the setup time.

Reliability when nobody's watching

The whole point of scheduled tasks is that you stop watching them. Reliability matters more than for one-off prompts. Browse Anything is engineered around that.

  • Auto-retry on transient failureEach run gets up to 3 retries with exponential backoff on transient errors (network, captcha solve, intermittent site outage). Most flaky failures self-heal without you ever knowing.
  • Stuck-task detectionTasks that exceed expected runtime are terminated and logged. You get an alert with the partial trace so you can fix the prompt — but other scheduled runs continue.
  • Per-task error notificationsFailures route to a configurable error channel (separate from success notifications) so you can triage without losing signal in success noise.
  • Status-page transparencyBrowse Anything runs on managed infrastructure with a public status page. You see exactly when the platform itself is degraded vs. when your task is misconfigured.

Schedule-ready prompts you can copy

Every example below includes its recommended schedule. Paste, adjust, schedule, forget.

Daily

7am morning briefing

Prompt

Every weekday at 7am, do all of: (1) scrape top 5 stories from Hacker News, (2) check my Google Calendar for the day, (3) list any new GitHub issues opened on my repos in the last 24 hours, (4) list any new Stripe charges over $500. Combine into a single Telegram message titled 'Morning Brief — [date]'.

What you get back

One concise Telegram message every morning before 7:05am. Replaces opening 4 different apps.

Hourly

Hourly price-drop alert

Prompt

Every hour, check the price of 20 specific Amazon ASINs in my list. If any price drops more than 5% from yesterday's snapshot, Telegram me with the product name, old price, new price, and direct link. Otherwise stay silent. Save daily snapshots to Google Sheets.

What you get back

Silent 95% of the time. Loud when there's a real signal. Daily history in Sheets lets you see trends over time.

Weekly

Weekly competitive intel digest

Prompt

Every Monday at 8am: for each competitor in my list (5 companies), summarize (a) blog posts published last week, (b) new job postings, (c) any pricing change, (d) any new Facebook Ad Library entries. Format as a one-page Markdown report. Slack to #strategy and save to Notion.

What you get back

Single weekly digest replacing manual checks across each competitor. Saves 3-4 hours every Monday.

Daily

Daily lead pipeline before 5am

Prompt

At 4:45am every weekday, scrape new YC company directory entries, ProductHunt launches, and new G2 listings in 'AI sales tools' category from the last 24h. Dedupe against my Salesforce contacts (read via API). Score by employee count and recent funding. Push the top 20 unscored leads to Salesforce as new contacts.

What you get back

Ready-to-call pipeline of 20 fresh leads in your CRM when you start the day. Salesperson productivity multiplier.

Cron

Cron-based content distribution

Prompt

Cron: 0 10 * * 3 — Wednesdays at 10am: take this week's article from row 1 of my 'Content Pipeline' Google Sheet and post the LinkedIn version. Cron: 0 9 * * 4 — Thursdays at 9am: post the X thread version. Cron: 0 11 * * 5 — Fridays at 11am: paste the Instagram carousel outline into Notion 'To Design' database.

What you get back

Three separate scheduled tasks, one per network, one per day. Whole content calendar runs itself with one weekly input.

Daily

End-of-day support digest

Prompt

At 6pm every day, summarize all support conversations in Intercom from the last 24h. Group by theme (billing, bugs, onboarding, feature requests). Tag urgent items. Slack the summary to #support-eod with a section for 'Tomorrow: top 3 items to address'.

What you get back

Daily handoff document writes itself. The team starts each day with clear top priorities; no morning triage meeting needed.

Schedule from anywhere — including your IDE

Browse Anything is a skill on ClawHub, callable from Claude Code, Cursor, OpenClaw, Hermes, Codex, Gemini, or Windsurf. Your agent can create scheduled tasks programmatically — "schedule this scraper to run every morning at 7am" — without leaving the editor.

openclaw skills install browseanything
# In your agent:
# "Use browseanything to schedule a daily 7am report on competitor pricing."
Install the skill on ClawHub

Frequently asked questions

What's the smallest interval I can schedule?

Every 5 minutes on Pro, every 1 minute on Ultra. For most real-world tasks, even hourly is enough — most users land on daily.

Are scheduled runs included in the $9.99/mo price?

Yes. Scheduled tasks use the same credit pool as one-off tasks. Pro includes 5,000 credits per month, enough for daily runs on dozens of tasks. Ultra is for high-frequency workloads (hundreds of daily scheduled jobs).

What happens if a scheduled task fails?

Up to 3 automatic retries with backoff. If all retries fail, the run is logged with the full trace and an optional error notification fires (to a different channel than success notifications). The schedule continues — one bad run doesn't kill the schedule.

Can I pause or modify a schedule without losing history?

Yes. Pause / resume / edit any scheduled task. All historical runs and their outputs remain in your workspace forever, exportable any time.

Can I trigger scheduled tasks externally (webhook, cron from my own system)?

Yes. Each task has an API endpoint and can be triggered on demand from your own systems, plus its native schedule. Many users combine: scheduled daily run + on-demand triggers from a Slack slash command or a button in their internal admin.

Are runs sandboxed? Can a long task block other tasks?

Each task runs in its own isolated browser. Long-running or stuck tasks don't block other scheduled runs. Concurrency limits per plan: Pro supports plenty for individual / small-team use; Ultra supports 100+ parallel agents for high-volume workloads.

Can I see the full history of a scheduled task — what changed across runs?

Yes. Browse Anything stores every run's structured output. You can view a side-by-side comparison of consecutive runs, export the full time series to CSV/Sheets, or query the data through the API for your own dashboards.

Set up your first scheduled task today

Free tier includes scheduling. Pro ($9.99/mo) gives you 5,000 credits — enough for dozens of daily tasks. Set up once, forget about it forever.

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Related use cases

Competitor monitoring

Most popular scheduled use case — daily diffs.

AI web scraping

Pair with a schedule for daily data pipelines.

ClawHub integration

Schedule from inside your AI assistant.