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title: "Hyperbrowser API / Start a gemini computer use task"
description: "Hyperbrowser tool hyperbrowser-api-task-gemini-computer-use on looot: input fields, $0.05 per call, output shape, and code to run it with curl, JavaScript or Python."
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Starts a Gemini computer-use task in a cloud browser. maxSteps caps the steps (up to 25, default 10). Flat price per call.

- **Tool id:** `hyperbrowser-api-task-gemini-computer-use`
- **Provider:** [Hyperbrowser](/providers/hyperbrowser)
- **Job:** [Gemini computer use api task](/reference/jobs/api-task-gemini-computer-use) (`api.task.gemini-computer-use`)
- **Price:** $0.05 per call. A call that fails at the provider costs $0.

## Inputs

| Name | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `apiKeys` | object | no |   |
| `keepBrowserOpen` | boolean | no |   |
| `llm` | string | no |   |
| `maxFailures` | number | no |   |
| `maxSteps` | number | no | Example: 10 |
| `sessionId` | string | no |   |
| `sessionOptions` | object | no |   |
| `task` | string | yes |   |
| `useComputerAction` | boolean | no |   |
| `useCustomApiKeys` | boolean | no |   |

## Output

The run's `result` holds the provider's answer. Signed in, `looot inspect hyperbrowser-api-task-gemini-computer-use` prints its fields.

## Run it

Every call needs your API token in `LOOOT_TOKEN`; [Sign in](/get-started/sign-in#use-the-token-in-scripts-and-agents) shows how to get one. Each run also needs a new idempotency key, so a retry never pays twice. With `wait: 30` the answer comes back inline when the run ends within 30 seconds. Otherwise you get the running run back: poll `GET /v1/runs/<runId>`.

Example input with placeholder values:

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```bash curl
curl -X POST "https://api.looot.ai/v1/runs" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LOOOT_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: $(uuidgen)" \
  -d '{"endpointId":"hyperbrowser-api-task-gemini-computer-use","input":{"task":"<task>","maxSteps":10},"wait":30}'
```

```js JavaScript
const response = await fetch("https://api.looot.ai/v1/runs", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.LOOOT_TOKEN}`,
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
    "Idempotency-Key": crypto.randomUUID(),
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    endpointId: "hyperbrowser-api-task-gemini-computer-use",
    input: {
      task: "<task>",
      maxSteps: 10,
    },
    wait: 30,
  }),
});
const run = await response.json();
console.log(run.status, run.result);
```

```python Python
import os
import uuid

import requests

response = requests.post(
    "https://api.looot.ai/v1/runs",
    headers={
        "Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['LOOOT_TOKEN']}",
        "Idempotency-Key": str(uuid.uuid4()),
    },
    json={
        "endpointId": "hyperbrowser-api-task-gemini-computer-use",
        "input": {
            "task": "<task>",
            "maxSteps": 10,
        },
        "wait": 30,
    },
    timeout=90,
)
run = response.json()
print(run["status"], run.get("result"))
```

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To let looot pick among every provider of this job instead, send `job:api.task.gemini-computer-use` as `endpointId`; see [the job page](/reference/jobs/api-task-gemini-computer-use).