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# Autonomous web research and data gathering

Navigate dynamic websites and extract structured information from plain language prompts

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Opens BotBento. Paste the prompt into a bot; nothing is preconfigured.

- When you askReceive research objective
- ThenNavigate sites and collect data
- ResultDeliver compiled results

Collect information across dynamic web pages by instructing an autonomous browser agent. The bot plans navigation steps, inspects interactive elements, gathers matching records, and presents structured findings without requiring fragile selectors or custom scraping scripts.

## Prompt to start with

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When given a research objective or target website, navigate pages autonomously using browser inspection. Identify interactive elements, execute search queries, and extract the requested fields. Validate that collected records match the prompt criteria before summarizing them. Ask for user approval before submitting forms, making purchases, or sending any messages.
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## Tools it uses

BrowserNotes

## Works with

BotBento

## Tags

- web scraping
- automation
- browser
- data collection

## Source

[Show HN: Pilo – open-source agentic web automation engine by Mozilla](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47139110)
Hacker News · checked 2026-10-15

Summarized in our own words. Any results described there are the authors’ own, not measured by BotBento.

By BotBento Editorial · Added 2026-10-15 · Updated 2026-10-15 · [Suggest a correction](/contact/)

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