Wait / Delay

Pause for a Fixed or Random wait, or wait Until a page condition is true. A timeout records a warning and the run continues.

Use Wait / Delay to give a page time to settle or hold later steps until a page condition is true.

Delay sleeps for a Fixed time or a Random range (1–3600 seconds). Until polls the page every 250ms until a selector Appears, Disappears, text Changes, or a condition Matches, or the timeout expires. Changes compares the selected text during this wait. A timeout records a warning and the run continues.

Pause when this wait succeeds pauses the automation only after a successful Until.

The card suffix · Watch means a Wait Until exists on the graph.

How to add it

Add Step → Wait / Delay. Add Step inserts a 2-second Fixed Delay. Adding For Each Link leaves Each Link empty. Add a delay there explicitly when a destination needs time to load.

Until Matches uses the same condition builder as If / Else, including a Saved name from Values.

Place Send Alert after Until only when later steps should still run. Pause when this wait succeeds skips those later steps, including that alert. Wait does not send alerts.

Place a delay inside Each Link when every destination needs time before the next step. Repeat waits between complete cycles. If / Else checks once without waiting for a later change. After a Scroll Page jump, add a Wait if new content needs time to load.

Auto refresh until text appears is the reload-until-found recipe. Get a back-in-stock alert uses that pause on a product status. Auto refresh vs page monitor splits the timer, If / Else, and Wait Until. Send a Slack webhook uses If / Else to guard Send Alert; a preceding Until can also finish on timeout. Auto click a button uses a Delay after Refresh Page. The side panel tour shows where Until sits on the graph.

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