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How to sign in to a site and read back the account page with Scout

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

Authorization notice. Scout is dual-use. Only use it on software, sites and systems you own or have explicit permission to test.

Credentials. Scout will use your sign-in details and sends the page content to your model service, so use an account you control and keep the details out of source files and shared replays.

Who it is forA person who checks an online account regularly and wants a status summary without signing in by hand each time.

The problemLogging in and reading one account page every day takes time, and the same steps repeat.

The outcomeA short report of what the signed-in page shows, such as a welcome message or a status line, with a replay.

What you need first

  • 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

Steps

  1. Run npm i @outcrawl/scout in your project folder.
  2. Run export OUTCRAWL_API_KEY=your-outcrawl-key, then set SCOUT_BASE_URL, SCOUT_API_KEY and SCOUT_HANDS_MODEL.
  3. Copy the README's example to task.ts and write the sign-in task, keeping your details in environment variables rather than in the file.
  4. Run npx tsx task.ts.
  5. Open result.replayUrl and confirm which page Scout read after signing in.

Prompt for your agent

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.

Caveat. The README gives no details on how Scout stores or protects the credentials you pass, so check that before using a sensitive account.

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