What you can do with Scout

4 use cases

• Pull a ranked list from a website with one task

  Have Scout open a site, read the page and report the items you asked for, with links.

  • Scout
  • Work and operations
  • Intermediate
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  Use the outcrawl/scout repo (TypeScript, npm package @outcrawl/scout). Build a task.ts that opens <target site URL> on Outcrawl's cloud browser and reports <the items you need> with links. Print result.data and result.replayUrl. Verify that result.status is completed and that each reported item appears on the replay.

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• Compare prices and stock across product pages

  Give Scout two or more products and get back a comparison of price and availability.

  • Scout
  • Work and operations
  • Intermediate
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  Use the outcrawl/scout repo to build task.ts that finds <product A> and <product B> on <site URL> and compares their price and stock, then states which is cheaper. Print result.data and result.replayUrl. Verify that both prices in the answer match the replay before trusting the result.

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• Fill in a web form and confirm what the site received

  Give Scout the form details and get back exactly what the site recorded.

  • Scout
  • Work and operations
  • Intermediate
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  Use the outcrawl/scout repo to build task.ts that fills in the form at <form URL> with <the field values> and reports exactly what the site shows as received. Print result.data, result.status and result.replayUrl. Verify that the status is completed and the replay shows the submitted values.

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• Sign in to a site and read back the account page

  Have Scout log in with your details and report what the account page says.

  • Scout
  • Work and operations
  • Intermediate
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  Use the outcrawl/scout repo to build task.ts that signs in to <site URL> using the credentials in environment variables and reads the welcome message on the account page. Print result.data and result.replayUrl. Verify that result.status is completed and that the replay shows the signed-in account page.

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How to use Scout

1. Check you have what it needs: Node 22 or later; An Outcrawl key from outcrawl.ai for the cloud browser (1,000 free credits every month, no card needed); A model service that speaks the standard chat completions API, hosted or running on your own computer.
2. Open outcrawlai/scout on GitHub and read the README and license.
3. Run npm i @outcrawl/scout in your project folder.
4. Run export OUTCRAWL_API_KEY=your-outcrawl-key, then set SCOUT_BASE_URL, SCOUT_API_KEY and SCOUT_HANDS_MODEL to your model service.
5. Save the README's three-step example as task.ts and change the task text to your research question.
6. Run npx tsx task.ts and read result.data.

These steps come from our top use case, Pull a ranked list from a website with one task, which also has a copy-paste agent prompt.

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About this repo

• Who it is forDevelopers and the AI agents they run who need a browser to finish web tasks such as research, comparison, form filling or sign-in.
• Why it is hot
• LanguageTypeScript
• Sourcegithub.com/outcrawlai/scout · Back to Hot repos

Requirements

• Node 22 or later
• An Outcrawl key from outcrawl.ai for the cloud browser (1,000 free credits every month, no card needed)
• A model service that speaks the standard chat completions API, hosted or running on your own computer
• Optional: a local browser via `npm i playwright-core && npx playwright install chromium` if you do not use the cloud

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