ANanchorbrowser
Tasks (Legacy)

Run Task (Legacy)

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Executes a task in a browser session. The task can be run with a specific version or the latest version. Optionally, you can provide an existing session ID or let the system create a new one.

If you are using the new Task Builder, see the non-deprecated Tasks endpoints in this API reference.

post/v1/task/run

Request

  • Base URL
    https://api.anchorbrowser.io
  • Auth
    API key in header anchor-api-key

Request body

taskIdstring uuid required

Task identifier

versionstring

Version to run (draft, latest, or version number)

sessionIdstring uuid

Optional existing browser session ID to use for task execution

asyncboolean

Whether to run the task asynchronously.

inputsobject

Environment variables for task execution (keys must start with ANCHOR_)

cleanupSessionsboolean

Whether to cleanup browser sessions after task execution. Defaults to true.

Example request

{
  "overrideBrowserConfiguration": {
    "tags": [
      "production",
      "scraping",
      "customer-123"
    ],
    "domain_allowlist": [
      "example.com",
      "example.org"
    ]
  }
}

Response

Task executed successfully

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