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Your First Automation Project

This guide walks you through creating your first automation project from scratch. By the end, you will have a working automation that visits a website and extracts data.

Method 1: Ask the AI Assistant (Easiest)

Section titled “Method 1: Ask the AI Assistant (Easiest)”

The fastest way to create a project is to simply describe what you want in plain English.

  1. Click AI Assistant in the sidebar (the home icon).
  2. Type your request. For example:

    “Go to https://example.com/products and extract all product names and prices into a spreadsheet.”

  3. The AI will analyze the page, generate the project configuration, and create it for you.
  4. Click Run Project to execute it.

AI Assistant chat showing a user request and the AI’s generated project configuration with a “Run Project” button

Method 2: Record Your Actions

Section titled “Method 2: Record Your Actions”

If you prefer to show RTILA what to do instead of describing it:

  1. Click Automation Projects in the sidebar.
  2. Click New in the ribbon toolbar.
  3. A new project is created and the Settings modal opens.
  4. Click Save & Launch Visual Builder.
  5. The browser opens with the RTILA recording toolbar visible.
  6. Perform your actions — click buttons, fill forms, navigate pages. RTILA records everything.
  7. When done, press Alt+Shift+X (or Option+Shift+X on Mac) or click Stop.
  8. Your actions are saved as commands. Go back to RTILA X to review them.

Browser with RTILA recording toolbar showing “Recording Actions…” indicator and Stop button

Method 3: Build Manually

Section titled “Method 3: Build Manually”

For full control, build your automation command by command:

  1. Click Automation Projects → New.
  2. In the project settings, add your starting URL.
  3. Click Save & Launch Visual Builder.
  4. In the side panel, switch to the Web Automation tab.
  5. Click Add to add commands one by one.
  6. Configure each command (e.g., goto, click, extract_data).

Side panel showing the Web Automation tab with a list of commands and the Add button

Running Your Project

Section titled “Running Your Project”
  1. Go to Automation Projects.
  2. Select your project from the list.
  3. Click Run in the ribbon toolbar.
  4. A Live Monitor modal opens showing:
    • Magic Dashboard — real-time status of bot evasion, checkpoints, and AI corrections
    • Live Logs — step-by-step log output
    • Live Memory — current variable and memory state

Live Monitor modal showing the Magic Dashboard with Bot Evasion Status, Resilience Engine, and AI Self-Correction cards

Viewing Your Results

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After the project finishes:

  1. Go to Scraped Data in the sidebar.
  2. Select your Project and Run from the dropdowns.
  3. Your extracted data appears in a table.
  4. Click Export to download it as CSV, JSON, XLSX, or Parquet.

Scraped Data page showing a table of extracted records with Export button

What’s Next?

Section titled “What’s Next?”