Create a New Browser Profile

To create a new browser profile, press New Browser Profile on the Browser Profiles page.

New Browser Profile Settings

Primary Site URL

The URL of the first page to visit in the embedded browser. For example, the login page for a social media website.

Profile Name

A custom name for the browser profile. The domain name of the Primary Site URL will be used if this field is left blank.

Depending on your organization settings, additional settings may be available:

Proxy Server

The proxy server to be used by the embedded browser as well as any crawl that uses this profile.

Implication for crawl workflows using proxies

When a browser profile is added to a crawl workflow, the browser profile’s proxy setting will take precedence over the crawl workflow’s Crawler Proxy Server setting. This prevents potential crawl failures that result from conflicting proxies.

Crawler Release Channel

For advanced use cases, you can specify a Browsertrix Crawler release that contains another version of the embedded browser, such as a beta version that may contain experimental features.

Press Start Browser to load the temporary embedded browser used to configure sites. It may take a few moments for the embedded browser to load. The browser profile will not be saved until Create Profile is pressed.