WorkBuddy Takes Over My Browser and Does My Work

Hello everyone, I'm Xiaofan.

I don't know if you're like me — always running into these frustrating problems:

Double 11 is almost here. Are you still switching back and forth between JD, Taobao, and Pinduoduo, comparing prices until you forget which one is cheapest?

Scrolling through job boards page after page, your eyes get tired, but there still aren't many suitable positions?

Want to learn a new skill? There are hundreds of tutorials on Bilibili, but after picking through them for an afternoon, you still haven't started the lesson?

Filling out forms in a backend admin system? Dozens of data entries, typed one by one by hand, until your fingers cramp and errors slip in everywhere?

If you hit two or more of those, this article is written for you.

Ever since WorkBuddy added the "browser control" feature, I've handed those repetitive, tedious tasks to AI: price comparison, job filtering, event lookup, tutorial selection, form filling — the AI clicks around on web pages all by itself, and I just sit back with a cup of tea and watch the results.

▸ WorkBuddy takes over the browser

Let's try it first: open QQ Browser, then use Baidu to search for "vibe knowledge awards"

Can WorkBuddy be trusted to control the browser?

Some of you might ask: Is this thing reliable? Will it click randomly?

Actually, there have been various Skills and MCPs that could operate browsers for a while now — they just weren't official solutions.

But this time it's an official plugin from WorkBuddy, optimized specifically for browser operations.

In actual use, it's far more stable than I expected — the key is that every step is shown in real time in the browser, so I can stop it the moment something looks wrong.

In this article, I'll first spend a minute setting up the environment, then walk through 5 real scenarios to show you what the AI can do once it takes over the browser.

To be clear: 01 is preparation, and 02 through 06 are the five scenarios.

01 Preparation

Before we begin, update WorkBuddy to the latest version, then install the browser plugin.

Open WorkBuddy, go to "Settings > Agent > Let WorkBuddy control the browser".

Currently it supports Google Chrome, Edge, and QQ Browser.

After that, we also need to install the corresponding plugin in each browser.

1.1 Google Chrome

If your network is normal, it will jump to the Chrome Web Store; if the network environment isn't good, you'll see this screen:

No need to worry — WorkBuddy has already downloaded the browser plugin for you. Just follow the manual installation method below.

The plugin package and extraction code are in the "Read Original" link at the end of the article, or you can reply with "browser plugin" in the public account backend.

Drag the downloaded plugin into this page.

If your network is fine, click "Add to Chrome" to install.

The plugin is installed successfully.

Now go back to WorkBuddy and you'll see the following — that means the installation succeeded and it's ready to use.

1.2 Edge and QQ Browser

These two are simpler — no network issues like the Chrome Store. Go back to WorkBuddy's settings page, click "Go to install" on the corresponding row, then click "Get / Install Now" in the browser's own extension store. Once the status changes to "Installed", it's ready.

The prompts in the later scenarios all say "use the QQ Browser plugin", so if you install just QQ Browser, you can follow along with all the tests.

02 Cross-platform price comparison for Double 11

Double 11 is coming soon, and I've been wanting to replace my monitor. The same monitor often has different prices on JD and Taobao, and with various discounts and gifts, manual comparison quickly gets dizzying.

My old approach: open several pages, switch back and forth, take screenshots, then jot things down in a notebook.

Now? One sentence is all it takes:

I want to pick a monitor under 1000 yuan. Help me compare the value for money of different brands on JD and Taobao, including different stores on the same platform. Organize it into a table and give scoring suggestions.

After receiving the task, WorkBuddy opens the browser by itself, visits the platforms, searches for the same monitor, and clicks through pages one by one to look at prices, discounts, and gifts.

After a few minutes, the results come out:

It not only gives the final price on each platform, but also scores every option, telling me directly which one is worth buying.

In the past, manual price comparison wasted a lot of time. Now it takes a few minutes and cures your choice paralysis.

03 Filter new jobs by conditions

People often tell me that finding a job is really hard these days.

There are thousands of listings on Zhilian and BOSS Zhipin, and flipping through them page by page is exhausting.

That's exactly the kind of repetitive, tedious task to hand to WorkBuddy.

Here's my prompt:

Use the QQ Browser plugin. Help me filter positions on Zhilian and BOSS Zhipin: Kunming area, accounting/finance related, salary above 7k, newly posted this week. Organize into a table with company, position, salary, requirements, and give a recommendation ranking based on my situation.

▸ Automatically filter jobs

WorkBuddy opens the job sites by itself, sets the filter conditions, flips through pages, and pulls all the matching openings.

▸ Filtered result table

The final table shows company, position, and salary at a glance, sorted by match. You just pick the ones you like and apply — no more searching for a needle in a haystack.

One word of caution: for operations that "speak on your behalf" — like mass-applying to jobs or auto-sending greetings — I'd suggest you keep control. The AI filters, the human applies. Each does their own job.

04 Check recent concerts in Kunming

On the weekend I wanted to take the family to a show, so I checked Damai for upcoming performances in Kunming.

This kind of task is small but tedious: flipping through pages, noting names, dates, venues, and ticket prices, then compiling everything yourself.

Give it to WorkBuddy:

Use the QQ Browser plugin. Help me log in to Damai, look up recent performances in Kunming, and organize them into a table with performance name, date, venue, and ticket price range.

▸ Concert query conversation

▸ Damai automatic query process

In no time, a neat table appears:

Name, date, venue, ticket price — all perfectly clear. I just sent the table to my family to pick.

05 Pick a tutorial on Bilibili and auto-compile notes

I've been wanting to learn something new recently. I searched Bilibili and found hundreds of tutorials, instantly triggering my choice paralysis.

Which one explains in detail? Which is good for beginners? Which one has no fluff? Watching them one by one would eat my whole afternoon.

Recently the "Vibe Knowledge Awards" videos made with Opus 5.5 on Bilibili have been especially popular, so I handed this job to WorkBuddy:

Use the QQ Browser plugin. Help me search on Bilibili for "how to make a vibe knowledge awards video", filter by play count, duration, and ratings to pick the 5 most worthwhile tutorials, open and watch them, then compile a study note for me that includes the key points of each tutorial and who it's suitable for.

▸ Bilibili tutorial selection conversation

WorkBuddy opens Bilibili itself, searches, sorts, clicks into video pages to look at descriptions and comments, and compares them one by one.

▸ Automatic browsing on Bilibili

In the end, it not only picked out 5 tutorials, but also compiled the notes one by one:

▸ Study notes

What each tutorial covers, the key points, and who it's best for — all listed clearly. I just took the notes and started studying, saving all the time I used to spend choosing.

06 Fill out forms in a backend admin system

The last scenario is one that people who work 9-to-5 will love — filling out forms in a backend admin system.

Anyone who has worked on backend systems knows that data entry is the most agonizing task: open a form, fill in fields, save, open the next record. Dozens of entries can make you question your life choices.

I tried it with the RuoYi demo system and outsourced this job to WorkBuddy:

Use the QQ Browser plugin. Open https://vue.ruoyi.vip/login, log in to the RuoYi demo system (account admin / password admin123). In the user management section of system management, add a new user record with the following information: username Xiaofan, phone 13266666666, email [email protected]. Fill it in and save.

WorkBuddy opens the login page, enters the account and password by itself, then clicks through the menu into the user management page, opens the new-user form, and fills each field one by one.

▸ Auto-login to RuoYi system

▸ Auto-fill the form

▸ Form submission

Note: vue.ruoyi.vip is the official RuoYi demo environment; the backend hard-blocks all create/update/delete operations. That's a site limitation, not something to bypass.

I just watched it work, like having an intern sitting at the computer. Once one record is done, you can hand it a batch of data and bulk entry is no problem either.

Of course, the demo environment is for playing with, but production environments involve real data. I'd recommend validating on a small batch first, and only scaling up after confirming everything works.

Summary

After trying these five scenarios, here are my takeaways:

① For sites that require login, it reuses the browser's login state.

② AI operations are fully visible, so you can stop it the moment something looks off.

③ For operations that speak externally (like applying to jobs, sending messages) and writing to real data (production system forms), a human must hold the final gate.

④ Tasks like price comparison, filtering, compiling, and data entry — the "repetitive, tedious, moving-stuff-around" kind — can be handed off.

⑤ It's slower than a human clicking, so it suits tasks that are "not urgent but tedious".

If you have similar needs, give it a try yourself. And I hope WorkBuddy will someday add a built-in browser, so the whole thing feels even smoother.

Feel free to share in the comments the creative ways you've used WorkBuddy's browser control.

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