Import accounts from a spreadsheet

Setting up fifty accounts one at a time is the most tedious thing this app can ask of you. Press From a spreadsheet above the profile list and hand it the file you keep.

The picker takes csv, txt, tsv and an Excel .xlsx workbook, which is what most spreadsheet exports produce. A text file is read by CSV rules rather than split on commas, because a reader one column off says nothing about it.

Rows can also be pasted without a file: the Paste text tab reads a piece of an Excel or Google Sheets sheet. A row with a profile ID updates that profile instead of making a second one, and the preview shows in advance which rows create profiles and which update them.

Your column names are yours, not ours. Case, spaces and underscores make no difference, so Profile Name, profile_name and PROFILE NAME are the same thing.

You need not rename your headers, and not only English ones: Russian, Spanish, German, Polish, Turkish, Japanese and Chinese work too. A column that matches nothing is not guessed at: you see it by name among the columns not used, and you pick its field yourself in This column above the preview.

An accounts spreadsheet almost always has a Login column and a Password column next to each other. They belong to the account rather than the proxy, and they never reach the proxy fields.

Only a column whose header says proxy goes into the proxy login and the proxy password. You see a bare Login or Password column among the columns not used, and it travels nowhere.

Each row becomes a profile draft, field by field, and the draft is what you approve in the next step.

Your file can carry the proxy in one cell in the seller's own notation, or as separate columns. The type is never guessed: an empty cell reads as http, and a type the app does not support is named out loud rather than quietly downgraded.

1. 1

   Name

   Comes across as it is, and an empty cell makes the row a problem rather than an unnamed profile.

2. 2

   Proxy

   Arrives in the single proxy column, or in the type, host, port, user and password columns.

3. 3

   Template

   The word in the cell resolves to one of the five templates: windows, ubuntu, phone and tablet land where you expect.

4. 4

   Group, tags, notes

   Tags are split on commas and semicolons inside the cell, and notes come across as written.

5. 5

   One-time code key

   A bare secret or a whole otpauth:// link, which carries its own digits, period and algorithm.

6. 6

   Scenario

   Taken from the cell when there is one, and rows without it get Privacy.

The import runs in two steps on purpose: first you see what became of your file, and only then does the first profile exist.

You see both sides: each column shows your header on top and the This column choice with our field under it. Below sit the first five rows as values, so a mapping one column off shows up in the values themselves.

You still see the row with a problem in the list. Hiding it would mean an import that silently drops rows, and you would find out weeks later that account 47 never arrived.

A checkbox decides what happens next. Ticked, which is the default, only clean rows are created; unticked, an unreadable proxy cell gives you the profile without a proxy rather than nothing at all.

Group names in the file become real groups in the app. Case makes no difference, so Sales and sales do not become two groups, and a missing group is made for you.

When you are signed in the group is created in your account too, so an imported profile lands in the group your colleagues see.

Proxies from the file join the shared library, deduplicated by host, port and user. Rotation, checks and a password change then reach an imported profile the same way they reach a hand-made one.

• Created

  Profiles that now exist.

• Skipped

  Rows the app refused, with the reason from the last refusal.

• New groups

  Groups you did not have before this file.

• Proxies saved to the library

  How many entries were added. An address already in the library stays one, not two.

Open a profile, set it up the way you need it, and press Save as a template. The template is those decisions under a name, and it does not carry the fingerprint.

The Templates window (the arrow next to New profile, Manage templates…) lists them all: Edit opens the profile window as a template, then Duplicate, Use for new profiles and Delete. The default template fills the New profile window, comes first among the templates of a quick profile and is picked in a batch and in an import.

That second half matters more. Every profile has a fingerprint of its own, so fifty profiles from one template are fifty different machines, while fifty copies of one machine show as a group at once.

• Stored in a template

  Scenario, fingerprint template, group, proxy, rotation, opening address, headless, browser kernel, notes, tags, status, extensions, profile password. Proxies go one for every profile, a free one from the list for each, or a random one from the list.

• Never stored

  The fingerprint, the cookies, the sessions. Each new profile is its own machine, unlike its neighbour.

• Limits

  Up to 100 templates, a name up to 60 characters, up to 12 tags per template.

Press Create a batch, pick a template or a system, type a base name and a count. Names continue the series and the numbers are all one width, so Work 01 to Work 50 sorts in order.

The proxies of the batch are chosen in plain view: No proxy, From the template, Each its own, from lines, or Each its own, free ones from the library. The window names a shortage of proxies before creating, and in the table of future profiles you can change the name and the proxy of any row before you press.

1. 1

   Pick a template or a system

   With no templates, No template: pick a system stands first, and Create does not go grey. For a template, the line under the picker names the scenario, the group, the proxy and the browser kernel it will use.

2. 2

   Name and count

   A base name, and how many profiles you want from it.

3. 3

   Read the preview line

   You see the first and the last name before you press anything, and fifty wrong names can only be renamed one at a time.

4. 4

   Create

   Profiles appear in the list, each with its own fingerprint and its own storage.

Forty sign-ins kept as forty files become forty profiles at once. In the “Create a batch” window press “From cookie files”; on an empty list the button stands right there.

Each file becomes its own profile named after the file, and its cookies go in the same way as a file loaded into one profile. Before anything is created, the window shows for each file how many cookies it holds, how many have already expired and why an unusable file is skipped.

An unusable file does not stop the batch. When you reach your plan's limit, the window says how many were created, at which file it stopped and why.