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I've been hacking together my own browser automations... the idea of deterministic scripting resonates with me... but I'm wondering how BrowserBook plans to handle authentication flows that require 2FA or CAPTCHAs.

ALSO is there any plan for integrating with CI pipelines... being able to run these scripts headless on servers would be huge.

BUT overall it's refreshing to see someone lean into brittle scripts rather than hide behind agent magic...

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BrowserBook allows users to create 'auth profiles' which can be utilized in notebooks for authentication purposes. These profiles currently support username/password and 2FA via TOTP (and we recommend provisioning a service account for your automations).

For captchas, we use Kernel's stealth mode which includes a captcha solver.

Re: CI integration, today we support API-based execution, but if you have a specific CI pipeline or set of tools you'd like to see support for, let us know and we can look into it!

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