Quickstart: Deploy your first Authenticated RPA

In this quickstart, you’ll build an RPA (Robotic Process Automation) that automates booking a consultation appointment on a website that requires login. You’ll use AuthSessions—Intuned’s built-in authentication management feature—to create and manage the authentication state. By the end, you’ll have a working authenticated automation ready to run on demand.

Prerequisites

An active Intuned account (sign up here). No credit card required—Intuned has a free plan
Basic familiarity with TypeScript or Python

Create and deploy your first authenticated RPA

You can develop Intuned Projects in two ways:

Online IDE — Zero setup. Write, test, and deploy directly from your browser.
CLI — Local development with full version control and CI/CD integration.

Choose your preferred approach below.

Online IDE
Intuned CLI

Go to app.intuned.io/projects and log in.
Select Create Project.
Select your language (TypeScript or Python).
Choose the book consultations with auth template.
Name it book-consultations-authenticated-quickstart.
Ensure IDE is selected as Type.
Select Create and Open.

Expected result: The Intuned IDE opens with your project loaded.

What you just got: An Intuned Project groups related browser automations together. Each file in the api/ folder becomes a callable function that controls a browser using Playwright, accepts parameters, and returns results. When working with sites that require login, you can create AuthSessions that store and manage login states, allowing your automation APIs to run authenticated actions without logging in every time. When you deploy the project, all its APIs go live together as a single deployable unit.

AuthSessions are a powerful feature of Intuned that simplify handling authentication in your automations. By defining login flows and session checks, you ensure your automations always have valid access to the target site. Learn more in the Authentication documentation.

Explore the project code

In the file explorer, you’ll see the API file:api/book-consultations - A complete automation that:

Navigates to the booking form
Fills in personal details (name, email, phone)
Selects date, time, and consultation topic
Submits the form and verifies success

How it works: This automation controls a browser like a human would—navigating to a website, filling form fields, clicking buttons—but executes these actions automatically based on your code and input parameters.Also, you’ll notice a special folder named auth-sessions/ that contains two special APIs:

auth-sessions/create - Defines how to perform your login flow. It receives credentials as input parameters and automates your login process, saving the captured browser state and cookies to be reused later.
auth-sessions/check - Checks if the current session is still valid or if a new login is required. This API executes automatically before every Run, ensuring your automation always has a valid authenticated session.

Validate your AuthSession

First, let’s set up authentication. You’ll have a pre-created test AuthSession with credentials that you can use. Let’s run an AuthSession:Validate Run that will run the check API; and if it fails, it will automatically run the create API to log in and create a new session state.In the top toolbar:

Select AuthSession: Validate from the API dropdown.
Select test-authsession from the AuthSession dropdown.
Select the Run button.

Expected result: You’ll notice that the check API runs and fails (no session state exists yet), then the create API runs to log in and create a new session, and a subsequent check API runs and passes. Your AuthSession is now ready to be used by your automations in the IDE!

The credentials are pre-configured in the auth session instance for the demo site. When building your own authenticated automations, you’ll pass your own credentials when creating your auth session instance.

Run your automation in the IDE

Test the automation to see it working right in the IDE.

Select API: book-consultations from the API dropdown.
Make sure the test-authsession AuthSession is selected as well, so the API can run authenticated with this valid session.
Select Web Scraping Consultation next to it—you’ll see pre-filled test data already configured.
Select the Run button.

Expected result: The browser panel on the right shows the automation executing live. First, it will rerun the check API to verify your AuthSession. You’ll see it navigate to the booking form, fill in all fields, submit, and verify success. The terminal below displays the result of the Run.

Show result of the Run

{
  "input": {
    "name": "John Smith",
    "email": "[email protected]",
    "phone": "+1-555-0123",
    "date": "2024-12-25",
    "time": "14:30",
    "topic": "web-scraping"
  },
  "output": {
    "success": true,
    "date": "2024-12-25",
    "message": "Consultation successfully booked for 2024-12-25 at 14:30"
  }
}

Deploy your project

Deploy your automation to Intuned’s infrastructure.

Select the Deploy button in the top-right corner of the IDE.
Leave Create test AuthSession toggle selected. This will create a test-auth-session AuthSession so you can use for testing.
In the deployment dialog, select Deploy to start.
Watch the live deployment logs until you see “Ready”.

Expected result: A success message appears. Your automation is now live and ready to run.

Test in the Playground

Now test your deployed authenticated automation through the API Playground.

In the deployment success dialog, select Run in Playground.
In the Playground, you’ll see your deployed API book-consultations ready to call. The newly created test AuthSession is selected.
The request body is pre-filled with test parameters. Select Start Run to execute.

The Playground is just an interactive way to test your deployed automation APIs. Your automation is now callable from anywhere via API—use it from your application, service, or any HTTP client. See the API Reference for authentication and programmatic usage.

Expected result: The automation executes on Intuned’s infrastructure. You’ll see the run details, AuthSession validation, and results in real-time.Your automation is now deployed and fully operational.

Install and create project

Open your terminal and run:

    npx create-intuned-project@latest

When prompted:

Project name: Enter book-consultations-authenticated-quickstart.
Language: Select TypeScript or Python.
Template: Choose Book consultations with auth.
Your Workspace Id: Check here how to find it.
Your API Key: Check here how to create one.

Expected result: The CLI creates a new folder book-consultations-authenticated-quickstart/ with the project structure and installs dependencies.

What you just got: An Intuned Project groups related browser automations together. Each file in the api/ folder becomes a callable function that controls a browser using Playwright, accepts parameters, and returns results. When working with sites that require login, you can create AuthSessions that store and manage login states, allowing your automation APIs to run authenticated actions without logging in every time. When you deploy the project, all its APIs go live together as a single deployable unit.

Navigate to project directory

    cd book-consultations-authenticated-quickstart

Explore the project code

Open the project in your code editor. You’ll see the API file:api/book-consultations - A complete automation that:

Navigates to the booking form
Fills in personal details (name, email, phone)
Selects date, time, and consultation topic
Submits the form and verifies success

auth-sessions/create - Defines how to perform your login flow. It receives credentials as input parameters and automates your login process, saving the captured browser state and cookies to be reused later.
auth-sessions/check - Checks if the current session is still valid or if a new login is required. This API executes automatically before every Run, ensuring your automation always has a valid authenticated session.

Validate your AuthSession

First, let’s set up authentication. When you created your project, it came with a pre-created test AuthSession under the /auth-sessions-instances folder with credentials that you can use. Let’s run a validate command to recreate the session state.Run the following command to validate the AuthSession:

yarn intuned run authsession validate test-authsession

Expected result: The CLI runs the check API and fails (no session state exists yet), then runs the create API to log in and create a new session, and runs a subsequent check API that passes. Your AuthSession is now ready to be used by your automations.

Run your automation locally

Test the automation to see it working on your machine.Run the following command:

yarn intuned run api book-consultations '{"name": "Jane Smith", "email": "[email protected]", "phone": "+1(555)123-4567", "date": "2025-12-10", "time": "14:30", "topic": "web-scraping"}' --authsession test-authsession

Expected result: The CLI launches a browser in the background. First, it reruns the check API to verify your AuthSession. You’ll see it navigate to the booking form, fill in all fields, submit, and verify success. The results appear in your terminal.

Show result of the Run

{
  "result": {
    "success": true,
    "date": "2025-12-10",
    "message": "Consultation successfully booked for 2025-12-10 at 14:30"
  }
}

Deploy your project

Deploy your automation to Intuned’s infrastructure. Run the following command to deploy:

yarn intuned deploy

When prompted, accept creating a test AuthSession. This will create a test-authsession AuthSession so you can use for testing.Expected result: You see deployment progress logs as the CLI deploys your project and creates the test AuthSession. When complete, you’ll see:

✓ Deployment successful

Your automation is now live and ready to run.

Test in the Playground

Now test your deployed authenticated automation through the API Playground.

Navigate to Playground in your browser.
Select your project book-consultations-authenticated-quickstart and the API book-consultations.
The newly created test AuthSession is selected.
The request body is pre-filled with test parameters. Select Start Run to execute.

What’s next?

Online IDE — Learn more about the Intuned IDE used in this quickstart.
Local development (CLI) — Learn more about the Intuned CLI used in this quickstart.
Authentication — Learn more about AuthSessions, how to create them, and best practices for handling authentication in your automations.
Monitoring and traces — Every run generates detailed logs, browser traces, and session recordings. Use these tools to debug failures, verify your automation is working correctly, and understand what happened during execution.
Flexible automations — Build automations your way. Write deterministic code, use AI-driven extraction, or combine both in a hybrid approach. Use any library or package—Intuned is unopinionated by design.
Intuned Agent quickstart — You can write your automation logic manually like in this quickstart, or use Intuned Agent to generate automations from a prompt and schema. Intuned Agent can also help you update existing automations, fix failed runs, and iterate on your code faster.
Cookbook — Browse full working examples of automations and scrapers. Each example includes complete code you can use as a starting point for your own projects.

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Quickstart: Deploy your first Authenticated RPA

Prerequisites

Create and deploy your first authenticated RPA

What’s next?

Getting started

Learn

Features

How-To

Integrations

References

Resources

​Prerequisites

​Create and deploy your first authenticated RPA

​What’s next?

Prerequisites

Create and deploy your first authenticated RPA

What’s next?