How to Open Browser and Login with Power Automate Desktop

This tutorial shows how to open a browser and do a login with Microsoft Power Automate Desktop. We talk about the best practices around automating browsers and using credentials.

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0:00 Intro
Today we are automating Google Chrome with Microsoft Power Automate Desktop, but the same approach is used for Edge or Firefox. We go to a URL, login into a system, take a screenshot and log out.

0:48 Open a Browser and Go to URL

1:47 Login on a Web page
We store the username and password as variables. The best practice is to keep them in a secure place. Use a populate text field on web page action to type the username and password into the internet page.

3:49 Selectors
A selector is an address of the different elements on a web page. It's in the CSS format.

6:52 Click a button in a browser
We use the Click link on web page to click a button (element) in a browser.

8:07 Take Screenshot
The Take screenshot of web page action takes a screenshot of an entire web page (or a specific element).

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[AdiCristea]

Great intro to how to use PAD for web login, Anders! Awesome as usual!

[suraj_singh]

Hii Anders Sir Appreciated content make a video on Selector in Power Automate Desktop from basic to advance full tutorial

[kaho]

Thank you for this! Can i know if we are able to read simple 4 digits captcha image to login to a site ? Much appreciated!

[General_halap]

Awesome!...i need this. please do you have a video on how to move files into sharepoint?

[omripe]

Great tutorial !

I realized the the page im trying to login to is change the Pass element ID every time you refresh. Therefore, What would be the way to start automating things on a website which you login manually beforehand. Since you don't have the initial "browser" variable...

[shaunrowley]

Another great video - i am looking at our ticketing system that is web based and need user name and password but also 2FA from either a text message or authenticate app - how is it best to do this in PAD - i was thinking of something like a wait command and then input box linked to UI automation of populate text field in window? but unsure

[MohamedAhmed-wzws]

Anders Jensen. Really appreciate your content and has opened my eyes on how i can automate tedious repetitive work and re-invest my time in something more valuable. I did follow the same steps and almost all is working perfect except for that when i enter the password ads username manually it works but when PA does it for me it doesn't work. Any thoughts on that? Once again thanks for your valuable content!

[WasaySabri]

Hi anders, can we get a video tutorial in which the bot will scrap the product from inside the link and scrap all the data then move back to another product. perf uipath.

[michaelelkin]

What do you do if the login prompt is a popup before entering the page, not a login page as in the video example? Thank you.

[Playlist-zlwu]

Hello and thank you for posting. It would be very useful if one could see a more secure password insertion method....something like the Credentials Asset in the UiPath platform. Some kind of local variable encryption maybe. Thank you again for posting. Greetings from RO. PS: one can see a slight shift in your channel from UP to MS Power Automate. Maybe you will have some new UiPath videos, too. Bye :)

[avinashshah]

hii, how we can change profile of chrome or microsoft edge, i have different app shortcut for my different profile, i am unable to open different profiles this always open with same default profile using file loction and also i cant open it through desktop recording.

[ALVINMAN]

Once more time, Thank you Anders Jensen for the nice video. But i have a problem: because after i made the login and the screenShot, i have a popup box, warning me to change the password and because of that i can´t Logout . How can i fix this problem?

[TomTorjaeger]

Hey man, great video! Is it possible to relog with different accounts ? I have the same step taken every time but with different accounts (like 26). I know how to exract the data i need but is there a simple way to open those multiple accounts ? Its okay if i habe to write all the variabls for those accounts but i would like to have the workflow only once.

[stanTrX]

Thanks, what is the privacy risk for storing your password as a variable in power automate? Is there better and more safe method without risking your password. Maybe some type of additional encryption etc

[Lokesh_kumar]

Hey sir I have captcha fro login page I entered a captcha the work continues or not?

[asharma]

After login how can we add capturing Authentication code from Chrome extension of Microsoft Authenticator to confirm login.

[yournaughtyvi]

Can we do that on firefox or any browser ? Even with out the PAD extension

[suraj_singh]

Make a video on Data extraction from webpage basic to Advance in Power Automate Desktop

[suraj_singh]

Make a video on Macro Excel Data Manipulation Tutorial using Macro Power Automate Desktop

[StephanVorster]

How to check first if the website that you want to login to is not already open and logged in. Then logout first and close the browser window before starting the script to open and login.