Browser automation allows you to automate tasks inside Multilogin 6 browser profiles, from creating simple automation scripts to complex web crawlers that search, collect and interact with web data.

Multilogin 6 browser automation is based on the Selenium WebDriver.

In the usual scenario, if you are running Selenium code, you would first connect to the Firefox (Gecko) or Chrome driver and then set desired capabilities. When using Multilogin with your Selenium code, you do not need to do that.

Instead, you use the Remote Web Driver to connect to the Multilogin 6 application or browser profile via the local port and set desired capabilities to execute Selenium commands in a pre-defined browser profile.

Supported languages

Because the Selenium framework offers a variety of language bindings, Multilogin 6 automation can also be run on multiple coding languages. However, currently, technical support is only provided for Python.

Multilogin port allocation

You need to predefine the application port in order to utilize Selenium automation.

1. Go to the C:\Users\%username%\.multiloginapp.com directory and open the app.properties file using any text editor
2. Add the following string to the file: multiloginapp.port=[PORT_NUMBER]
3. Save the app.properties file

Thereafter, you will be able to refer to the Multilogin 6 application through this port.

Python example

from selenium import webdriver 
from selenium.webdriver.chromium.options import ChromiumOptions 
from selenium.webdriver.firefox.options import Options 
import requests 

#TODO replace with existing profile ID. Define the ID of the browser profile, where the code will be executed. 
mla_profile_id = 'xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx' 

mla_url = 'http://127.0.0.1:35000/api/v1/profile/start?automation=true&profileId='+mla_profile_id 

""" Send GET request to start the browser profile by profileId. 
Returns response in the following format:'{"status":"OK","value":"http://127.0.0.1:XXXXX"}', 
where XXXXX is the localhost port on which browser profile is launched. 
Please make sure that you have Multilogin listening port set to 35000. 
Otherwise please change the port value in the url string 
""" 
resp = requests.get(mla_url) 

json = resp.json() 
print(json) 

#Instantiate the Remote Web Driver to connect to the browser profile launched by previous GET request 
# In case of using Mimic browser 
driver = webdriver.Remote(command_executor=json['value'], options=ChromiumOptions()) 

# In case of using Stealthfox browser 
#driver = webdriver.Remote(command_executor=json['value'], options=Options()) 

#Perform automation 
driver.get('https://multilogin.com/') 
print(driver.title) 
driver.quit()