Close reappearing cookie banners when scraping the web

Browser automation for humans & AI
40 views September 23, 2025

When your web scraper runs in axiom.ai, but when you observe it, a cookie window pops up that didn’t appear while you were building your no code bot. Solution: Insert a Click element step with an optional click so that if the popup doesn’t appear, the automation still continues. How: Insert Click element step 1. Add it near the start of your automation. 2. Click Select, then choose Use element text instead of HTML. 3. In the input field, type the text you see — for example: Accept all cookies. 4. Click Complete and tick Optional click. Other option: Use a Key press step Record tabs and a return key to close the popup when the focus reaches the button.

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