Manual Crawler

Explore an external target interactively in Debug Mode.

Manual Crawler opens a proxied browser so an operator can capture important pages and user flows that automated discovery missed.

Manual Crawler is a Debug Mode capability. It is hidden or disabled on deployments and workspaces where Debug Mode is not enabled.

Start a Crawler

1. Open Web Assessment -> Run Assessment.

2. Choose an intent that includes the target and continue to Scope.

3. Select and configure the asset.

4. Under Explore manually, choose Crawl as:

   • Unauthenticated starts without a login state;

   • a named browser session reuses that recorded account.

5. Select Open logged-out crawler or Open session crawler.

The selected crawl context is independent of the assessment's authentication coverage. Opening a crawler does not add another context to the run.

Use the Proxied Browser

Wait for the status indicator to show that the browser is ready before each action.

Control	Use
Start Recording	Begin a trajectory from the current page.
Refresh	Rescan the current DOM and reapply actionable-element highlights after dynamic content changes. It does not perform a normal browser reload.
Reset	Discard the in-progress trajectory and return to its starting point.
Done	Save captured trajectories and end the crawler.
Abort	Stop without saving the current in-progress trajectory.

Use Refresh when a click, form step, or single-page application navigation reveals new controls that are not highlighted. Normal page navigation automatically refreshes highlights when it completes.

Keep the proxied browser open until the UI confirms that the trajectory was saved. The interactive VNC session lasts at most 30 minutes from its start; activity does not extend that limit.

The browser may ask you to confirm before closing or leaving the VNC tab. Confirmed closure ends the VNC session and crawler submodule, so use Done first when you want to save the trajectory. If the popup did not open but the crawler is still active, select Reopen browser in Explore manually. A confirmed tab close ends that run; start a new crawler afterward. Use Cancel crawler when the browser becomes unusable or you no longer need the run. If the sandbox VNC service is unavailable, retry after an operator restores that service.