Q: For input (loop data) and output, is it possible to use Airtable instead of Google Sheets?
My other question is about your reply to another question, that "only add-ons are not included in the LTD". What are add-ons and what can they do? And if I buy the LTD, will I be able to get access to them if I need them, in any way other than changing to a monthly plan?
A: We only integrate with google sheets but I believed there is a native integration between google sheets and airtable. You can also use webhooks to send the data to airtable.
The webhook addon is included in T4 but buttons is not included in any addon.
Users can upgrade at any time to have addons ontop of their current LTD but it is a monthly charge
Q: Hi,
I am looking to automate the process of creating citations, such as Yelp, Citysearch, Yellowpages, etc.
Would Taskmagic be good for this? Each citation company has its own workflow (and they sometimes change their workflow) for signing up for a new company. Ideally, I would have a Google Sheet with the pertinent information (Name, Address, Phone #, Email, Website, logo) that I would copy/paste into the citation site.
Your best bet is a google sheet or webhook setup that will send you all general information. We aren’t smart filling forms or anything but if you build an Automation per site, anytime you send the data to us we could fill it out in the site.
There are other ways to accomplish this but that is how I would build it
Looking forward to seeing more about what you’re building here
Q: I'm having trouble understanding how this is listed as an alternative to Zapier and Make, but then there is ...
an add-on available on the website for Zapier, Webhooks, Pabbly, Google sheet trigger. Would you please help me understand how TaskMagic is the same and different from Zapier?
I'm interested in understanding as well how TaskMagic might work with Albato or work instead of Albato?
Q: Hey team,
I have two questions:
- What should I do if I can’t select text on a website?
I understand that I need to open the website in a separate browser and then inspect the item. Afterwards, I can copy and paste the XPath into the update selector. However, if it is a list and not detected by the CSS selector, how can I select the list?
- What if I want to redo a step? Ideally, I would like to select a step and have a preview pop open, showing Chrome and that particular step. Now I really struggle and end up doing the whole process over but it limits me so much, or am I doing something wrong?
Do you have any more complex automation tutorials?
A: Can you send an example of not being able to select?
If it’s a native drop-down then the recorder will pick it up. If it’s a custom drop-down the site built then the options will all have selectors although it’s. A bit tricky to find them, you can also “click” the drop-down then add a click step with find by text (click the 3 dots > advanced settings) to look for the text and click based on that. Find by text accepts variables so you can search for some text based on a value from another step, webhook, sheet etc
Q: Hi Kyle,
I've set up my webhook but totally in the dark (literally- the app screen is black) on how to start ...
an automation from a webhook triggering. I can't start the recording because there's no url I can jump too if that makes sense, I need a sale to come in to trigger my hook.
This seems so powerful but the app is so simple it's like I need a video showing where to find stuff! I won't give up but I definitely need some help!
Other previous LTD's here have had a scheduled webinar talking all us newbies through from a new account start up to understanding the basics. Any chance you could do this- I know I'm not the only one who learns best by seeing other people doing!
So far tho, connecting my hook was easy and I see the connection is active- have located my google sheet and everything seems to work just great... just need some directions!
A: Hey Gary! Can you send a video recording of what happened here to kyle@taskmagic.com so I can see the error you’re facing? Seems you may have hit some error that didn’t handle itself
Q: Interesting software :) Thinking to use it mainly for:
1.
Scraping active links from exact domain to look for expired domains (ready to register :)
2. Bot which can login on fiverr and answer to messages when support is offline... So bot could send universal message with popular FAQ (file)
3. Bot which could monitor for example orders on fiveer - when new order is.. then bot automatically can record id, date and due date etc... and write it somewhere as new task (for aproove)... in for example software like moxie, upbase, edworking or agiled
A: all very doable :) the only one that won’t immediately be straight forward is monitoring in your 3rd example.
For example instead of “monitoring” the site, id advise a 5 minute / 15 minute schedule Automation that checks for unread messages by using a combination of filter/parse for you to determine if it has been responded to or not
Q: Hello,
Can I use TaskMagic to scrape every reviews on a public profile on Google Maps (time where left the ...
review, content text, vote etc) and put in a google sheet? Task Magic can work and scrape data also in Google Business Profile that I manage? What about Italian language, is it supported? Thanks a lot and sorry for my "not so good" english ^_^'
2. To run a task, is it running off your chrome screen? As in it is literally copy and pasting from the screen - thus I need to have my computer open and ensure that I do not close that window?
Q: This may be a bit basic but I have redefined the meaning of technically stupid!
Two examples, both to scrape jobs.
1. Go to LinkedIn - search my contacts - then click the link on where they are currently working (this is hyperlinked inside their profile) - click on the jobs drop down and grab each individual job posting for that company - back to next contact and rinse and repeat. I have 17,000 LI contacts, it will take a while.
2. Same exercise on Indeed basically. Open Indeed - search term (can I set up my own template so that I can change the search term and/or location etc?) - click on each posting - scrape job url.
This video should give you an idea of what I'm looking for. I'd really need it customizeable by location, title etc.
A: This can be done via the webhook addon a number of different ways. I’m happy to entertain this as a feature request but I believe you confused the review section for our roadmap. Our roadmap is at request.taskmagic.com
Q: Hi, I am looking to scrape some web page data and send me email in case something happened.
For example i want to check a web page, scan all the product on the web page, get the price for each product and email me if one of the products price is lower than 200.
A: You can scrape all this data and push it to google sheets or webhook. Depending on where you push the data is where you can implement some sort of decision on emailing you or not. We can help you move the data around thoufh yes :)
A: Hey Brad, that may be referencing an old community we used to maintain. We didn’t see much benefit from that during early access and have transitioned to YouTube for the community
A: Hey Dev - I’ll tell support to make a video going over chatgpt but what issues have you faced so far logging into chatgpt; typing a question (use a delay to allow it time to respond) then use scrape to get its response.
I recommend training chatgpt to respond with certain words so you can parse. Let’s say you have chatgpt creating fake user data
Don’t let it produce just Kyle Wilson
Instruct it to provide [firstname] Kyle
Or something along those lines so you have an easier time parsing and extracting any answers
Q: I have purchased numerous automation tools from AppSumo in the past.
I have looked at the web site for your service, but have yet to understand the full scope of what can be performed with your tool, as there are too few use cases.
From a quick look, I get the impression that it is similar to the following tools. I already have these LTDs, what are the advantages of your tool compared to these tools?
Hey, I take the opportunity to answer as I have the same LTDs, Robomotion and Cheatlayer, plus other ones such as Zerowork.io
My opinion :as of today, Robomotion is for developers, guys without technical knowledge will spend hard times. Zerowork is great, intuitive, but you have to build scenario yourself and it can take some times, but it remains really powerful. And Cheatlayer, my BFF, that is more than powerful but with a long learning curve and, for me, not yet as a finished product as it's still evolving - but it remains the most powerful as its coverage is HUGE (web, desktop, agents,...)
TaskMagic ? The easiest one, it's amazing. If V.One team continues to make this product evolved (and fix some bugs), it will also be HUGE, définitively. I grabed Tier4 because I do strongly believe in V.One to make this product a success, for them and their users.
Hi, thanks for your comment. They don't have proxies though, do you see that as an issue? How can it become a safe and powerful tool if they don't have any proxy support?
Most of our use cases are not performing actions at a pace that would require proxies. We are not looking to be a botting service and there is plenty of data that can be scraped at a reasonable pace
I am happy to entertain proxy support in our roadmap but proxies would need to be provided by the user
Does this mean unlimited users can use the same live manual trigger to copy data from one SAAS program to another on their own computer simultaneously? Can a button/shortcut be made to initiate the manual trigger? Just trying to avoid needing to open additional windows/programs to trigger a manual automation.
Yes each user can have their own setup inside one workspace.
If you want the Automation to be ran automatically (turned on) it will only run from one computer no matter the connections. If you want it to run on multiple systems then duplicate the Automation or have the user manually click play steps and there would be no conflict
Q: For input (loop data) and output, is it possible to use Airtable instead of Google Sheets?
My other question is about your reply to another question, that "only add-ons are not included in the LTD". What are add-ons and what can they do? And if I buy the LTD, will I be able to get access to them if I need them, in any way other than changing to a monthly plan?
Kyle_TaskMagic
May 15, 2024A: We only integrate with google sheets but I believed there is a native integration between google sheets and airtable. You can also use webhooks to send the data to airtable.
The webhook addon is included in T4 but buttons is not included in any addon.
Users can upgrade at any time to have addons ontop of their current LTD but it is a monthly charge
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OK, thank you.
Q: Hi, I am looking to automate the process of creating citations, such as Yelp, Citysearch, Yellowpages, etc.
Would Taskmagic be good for this?
Each citation company has its own workflow (and they sometimes change their workflow) for signing up for a new company.
Ideally, I would have a Google Sheet with the pertinent information (Name, Address, Phone #, Email, Website, logo) that I would copy/paste into the citation site.
Thank you.
Kyle_TaskMagic
May 15, 2024A: Love this use case.
Your best bet is a google sheet or webhook setup that will send you all general information. We aren’t smart filling forms or anything but if you build an Automation per site, anytime you send the data to us we could fill it out in the site.
There are other ways to accomplish this but that is how I would build it
Looking forward to seeing more about what you’re building here
Share TaskMagic
Q: I'm having trouble understanding how this is listed as an alternative to Zapier and Make, but then there is ...
an add-on available on the website for Zapier, Webhooks, Pabbly, Google sheet trigger. Would you please help me understand how TaskMagic is the same and different from Zapier?
I'm interested in understanding as well how TaskMagic might work with Albato or work instead of Albato?
Thank you for helping me get clarity!
Share TaskMagic
Q: Would be nice if you could host a webinar to walk us through using Taskmagic.
I understand there are help docs but I'm more of a visual person and would like to see how it works.
Kyle_TaskMagic
May 15, 2024A: We’re frequently adding guided videos to the how to section of help.taskmagic.com
Feel free to leave comments on the YouTube on other tutorials you’d like to see and Damian can make those :)
Share TaskMagic
Q: Hey team, I have two questions: - What should I do if I can’t select text on a website?
I understand that I need to open the website in a separate browser and then inspect the item. Afterwards, I can copy and paste the XPath into the update selector. However, if it is a list and not detected by the CSS selector, how can I select the list?
- What if I want to redo a step?
Ideally, I would like to select a step and have a preview pop open, showing Chrome and that particular step. Now I really struggle and end up doing the whole process over but it limits me so much, or am I doing something wrong?
Do you have any more complex automation tutorials?
Thanks,
Hendrik
Kyle_TaskMagic
May 15, 2024A: Can you send an example of not being able to select?
If it’s a native drop-down then the recorder will pick it up. If it’s a custom drop-down the site built then the options will all have selectors although it’s. A bit tricky to find them, you can also “click” the drop-down then add a click step with find by text (click the 3 dots > advanced settings) to look for the text and click based on that. Find by text accepts variables so you can search for some text based on a value from another step, webhook, sheet etc
Share TaskMagic
Q: Hi Kyle, I've set up my webhook but totally in the dark (literally- the app screen is black) on how to start ...
an automation from a webhook triggering. I can't start the recording because there's no url I can jump too if that makes sense, I need a sale to come in to trigger my hook.
This seems so powerful but the app is so simple it's like I need a video showing where to find stuff! I won't give up but I definitely need some help!
Other previous LTD's here have had a scheduled webinar talking all us newbies through from a new account start up to understanding the basics. Any chance you could do this- I know I'm not the only one who learns best by seeing other people doing!
So far tho, connecting my hook was easy and I see the connection is active- have located my google sheet and everything seems to work just great... just need some directions!
Cheers
Gary, UK purchaser
Kyle_TaskMagic
May 15, 2024A: Hey Gary! Can you send a video recording of what happened here to kyle@taskmagic.com so I can see the error you’re facing? Seems you may have hit some error that didn’t handle itself
Share TaskMagic
Q: Interesting software :) Thinking to use it mainly for: 1.
Scraping active links from exact domain to look for expired domains (ready to register :)
2. Bot which can login on fiverr and answer to messages when support is offline... So bot could send universal message with popular FAQ (file)
3. Bot which could monitor for example orders on fiveer - when new order is.. then bot automatically can record id, date and due date etc... and write it somewhere as new task (for aproove)... in for example software like moxie, upbase, edworking or agiled
Possible to do these 3 things ?
Kyle_TaskMagic
May 15, 2024A: all very doable :) the only one that won’t immediately be straight forward is monitoring in your 3rd example.
For example instead of “monitoring” the site, id advise a 5 minute / 15 minute schedule Automation that checks for unread messages by using a combination of filter/parse for you to determine if it has been responded to or not
Share TaskMagic
Q: Hello, Can I use TaskMagic to scrape every reviews on a public profile on Google Maps (time where left the ...
review, content text, vote etc) and put in a google sheet?
Task Magic can work and scrape data also in Google Business Profile that I manage?
What about Italian language, is it supported?
Thanks a lot and sorry for my "not so good" english ^_^'
Kyle_TaskMagic
May 15, 2024A: Yes all those are doable.
We do not support any other languages in our app at this time but I’m happy to see this get added to the roadmap at request.taskmagic.com
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Q: Can I use TM for Autolike Posts (from single persons), Birthdays or other Events on LinkedIn?
Kyle_TaskMagic
May 15, 2024A: Yes :)
Share TaskMagic
Q: Hi There- Some questions: 1.
In T1 and T2 - how many steps do you get?
2. To run a task, is it running off your chrome screen? As in it is literally copy and pasting from the screen - thus I need to have my computer open and ensure that I do not close that window?
Thanks!
Share TaskMagic
Q: So Tier 4 is identical to the Enterprise plan on your site, with the addition of Zapier, Webhooks, Pabbly, ...
Google Sheets trigger add-on without the monthy fee, is that correct? I asked because Tier 4 only lists Webhooks.
Kyle_TaskMagic
May 15, 2024A: Correct almost -
The enterprise plan is matched EXACTLY to T3. Due to requests from the sumolings we added a new plan that is T3 (enterprise) + webhooks
There is no monthly fee for users purchasing the LTD.
Share TaskMagic
Q: This may be a bit basic but I have redefined the meaning of technically stupid!
Two examples, both to scrape jobs.
1. Go to LinkedIn - search my contacts - then click the link on where they are currently working (this is hyperlinked inside their profile) - click on the jobs drop down and grab each individual job posting for that company - back to next contact and rinse and repeat. I have 17,000 LI contacts, it will take a while.
2. Same exercise on Indeed basically. Open Indeed - search term (can I set up my own template so that I can change the search term and/or location etc?) - click on each posting - scrape job url.
This video should give you an idea of what I'm looking for. I'd really need it customizeable by location, title etc.
Share TaskMagic
Q: Hi the instructions to download and setup the file don't seem to match up with what I see in my downloads...
I don't see a "keep" or "delete" options in the downloads folder. How can I run this file?
Kyle_TaskMagic
May 15, 2024A: This may very from system to system but after downloading the app it should be in your downloads directory.
Are you on mac or windows?
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I have a Windows computer
Q: I could not find anyway to run automation via mobile/phone browser/app to make the PC that I installed taskmagic to run.
could you make this possible? zerowork , robomotion ,uipath could do this and I think this is a basic feature .
Kyle_TaskMagic
May 15, 2024A: This can be done via the webhook addon a number of different ways. I’m happy to entertain this as a feature request but I believe you confused the review section for our roadmap. Our roadmap is at request.taskmagic.com
Share TaskMagic
Q: Hi, I am looking to scrape some web page data and send me email in case something happened.
For example i want to check a web page, scan all the product on the web page, get the price for each product and email me if one of the products price is lower than 200.
Is that something your tool allow me to do?
Kyle_TaskMagic
May 15, 2024A: You can scrape all this data and push it to google sheets or webhook. Depending on where you push the data is where you can implement some sort of decision on emailing you or not. We can help you move the data around thoufh yes :)
Share TaskMagic
Q: Alright so I took the plunge and gave in to a 2 year refusal to buy from appsumo again, now I'm wondering where to go next?...
I see from the promo v3 video on your home page that I might expect some life at community.taskmagic.com but nope - that's a dead end
Kyle_TaskMagic
May 15, 2024A: Hey Brad, that may be referencing an old community we used to maintain. We didn’t see much benefit from that during early access and have transitioned to YouTube for the community
Share TaskMagic
Q: Can you add Wise or ACH wire for affiliate marketing?
Kyle_TaskMagic
May 15, 2024A: we use a 3rd party for all things referral and we are only offering payouts there via PayPal
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Q: I know it is not support forum but I could not find any other to reach support.
I would be greatful if you just help me automate ChatGPT + Google Sheet.
Leave any other automation aside, give me this and I am satisfied.
If not, I want to claim 2x money this time... BECAUSE IT JUST DONT WORK.
Kyle_TaskMagic
May 15, 2024A: Hey Dev - I’ll tell support to make a video going over chatgpt but what issues have you faced so far logging into chatgpt; typing a question (use a delay to allow it time to respond) then use scrape to get its response.
I recommend training chatgpt to respond with certain words so you can parse. Let’s say you have chatgpt creating fake user data
Don’t let it produce just
Kyle Wilson
Instruct it to provide
[firstname] Kyle
Or something along those lines so you have an easier time parsing and extracting any answers
Share TaskMagic
Q: I have purchased numerous automation tools from AppSumo in the past.
I have looked at the web site for your service, but have yet to understand the full scope of what can be performed with your tool, as there are too few use cases.
From a quick look, I get the impression that it is similar to the following tools.
I already have these LTDs, what are the advantages of your tool compared to these tools?
https://www.robomotion.io
https://cheatlayer.com/
Share TaskMagic
it is like cheatlayer but offers webhooks but without the possiblity to white label as chrome extension the automations
Hey,
I take the opportunity to answer as I have the same LTDs, Robomotion and Cheatlayer, plus other ones such as Zerowork.io
My opinion :as of today, Robomotion is for developers, guys without technical knowledge will spend hard times. Zerowork is great, intuitive, but you have to build scenario yourself and it can take some times, but it remains really powerful. And Cheatlayer, my BFF, that is more than powerful but with a long learning curve and, for me, not yet as a finished product as it's still evolving - but it remains the most powerful as its coverage is HUGE (web, desktop, agents,...)
TaskMagic ? The easiest one, it's amazing. If V.One team continues to make this product evolved (and fix some bugs), it will also be HUGE, définitively. I grabed Tier4 because I do strongly believe in V.One to make this product a success, for them and their users.
Enjoy !
Hi, thanks for your comment. They don't have proxies though, do you see that as an issue? How can it become a safe and powerful tool if they don't have any proxy support?
Most of our use cases are not performing actions at a pace that would require proxies. We are not looking to be a botting service and there is plenty of data that can be scraped at a reasonable pace
I am happy to entertain proxy support in our roadmap but proxies would need to be provided by the user
Q: How many workspaces do we get with the deal?
I see users per workspace. Does that mean 1?
Kyle_TaskMagic
May 15, 2024A: Hey mike
UNLIMITED workspaces
x user(s) PER workspace
if you have 1 user per workspace and you make 100 workspaces, yes you can invite 100 users (in total).
You would have to invite each user manually though to the individual workspace
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Or... you could invite each user with TaskMagic?
Does this mean unlimited users can use the same live manual trigger to copy data from one SAAS program to another on their own computer simultaneously? Can a button/shortcut be made to initiate the manual trigger? Just trying to avoid needing to open additional windows/programs to trigger a manual automation.
You could if we didn’t block access to invites in web ;) but great catch and application for our tech.
Yes each user can have their own setup inside one workspace.
If you want the Automation to be ran automatically (turned on) it will only run from one computer no matter the connections. If you want it to run on multiple systems then duplicate the Automation or have the user manually click play steps and there would be no conflict