feat: Robotex landing on robotex.sokolab.xyz and announcement post

- projects section: standalone landing template and styles, served on a subdomain by the ingress Caddy (project) snippet - Robotex landing in RU/EN, links to Redmine forum/issues - blog post: Robotex is now a free service Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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+title: "Robotex"
+tagline: "A browser for your bots, over an API"
+description: "Robotex gets past anti-bot protection, runs a scenario on the page and hands your bot the cookies. From there the bot works with plain HTTP requests."
+domain: "https://robotex.sokolab.xyz/"
+badge: "Free · early access"
+post: "/blog/robotex-browser-automation-api"
+postLabel: "How Robotex works"
+build:
+  list: never
+sitemap:
+  disable: true
+
+nav:
+  - { label: "Features", href: "#features" }
+  - { label: "How it works", href: "#how" }
+  - { label: "Community", href: "#community" }
+
+cta:
+  - { label: "Request access", href: "https://redmine.sokolab.xyz/account/register", primary: true }
+  - { label: "How it works", href: "#how" }
+
+problem:
+  title: "Why you need it"
+  lead: "Every website bot sooner or later runs into one of three problems:"
+  items:
+    - "a captcha"
+    - "anti-bot protection"
+    - "heavy JS that has to be rendered to submit a form"
+  text: "A spider built on raw HTTP requests is helpless here, you need a real browser. But a browser is heavy, it has to be hidden from detection and kept next to the bot. Robotex takes that job over: the browser is used only where there's no way around it."
+
+features:
+  title: "Features"
+  items:
+    - title: "Scenarios"
+      text: "More than opening a page. Fill a form, click, move the mouse, wait for an element, grab a piece of HTML."
+    - title: "Anti-bot pages"
+      text: "Detects a Cloudflare check before and during a scenario and gets through it. If it escalates to an image captcha, sends it to a recognition service."
+    - title: "Captcha"
+      text: "The `captcha` step solves hCaptcha and other captchas via 2captcha before the form is submitted."
+    - title: "Profiles"
+      text: "Cookies, local storage and the browser fingerprint live in one profile. Locale and timezone match the proxy's geo. To the site it's still the same user."
+    - title: "Real Chrome"
+      text: "Chrome driven by Patchright, without the CDP leaks anti-bots use to detect automation."
+    - title: "Any language"
+      text: "It's a service, not a library. Your bot only needs an HTTP client, whatever it's written in."
+
+how:
+  title: "How it works"
+  steps:
+    - "The bot sends a URL, an action scenario and its proxy to `POST /v1/solve`."
+    - "Robotex opens the page, passes the checks and runs the scenario. The browser profile is saved and returned in the `session_id` cookie."
+    - "The bot gets the cookies and User-Agent and keeps browsing on its own, **through the same proxy**. When it needs a browser again, it sends `session_id` and continues in the same profile."
+  code:
+    - caption: "Request"
+      body: |
+        POST /v1/solve
+        X-API-Key: <key>
+
+        {
+          "url": "https://example.com/login",
+          "actions": [
+            {"type": "fill", "selector": "#email", "value": "user@example.com"},
+            {"type": "fill", "selector": "#password", "value": "..."},
+            {"type": "click", "selector": "#submit"},
+            {"type": "wait_for", "selector": ".dashboard", "timeout": 30}
+          ],
+          "proxy": "socks5://user:pass@host:port"
+        }
+    - caption: "Response"
+      body: |
+        {
+          "status": "ok",
+          "user_agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) ...",
+          "cookies": [
+            {"name": "sessionid", "value": "...", "domain": ".example.com"}
+          ],
+          "actions": [
+            {"type": "fill", "ok": true},
+            {"type": "fill", "ok": true},
+            {"type": "click", "ok": true},
+            {"type": "wait_for", "ok": true}
+          ]
+        }
+
+limits:
+  title: "Where it stands, honestly"
+  items:
+    - "**It's an early MVP.** I grant access manually, and the API may change."
+    - "**It's free.** You only pay for your own proxies and, if needed, 2captcha."
+    - "Proxy quality matters a lot: no fingerprint will help on a dirty IP."
+    - "Turnstile doesn't pass on every site yet, I'm working on stability."
+
+community:
+  title: "Community"
+  lead: "Questions, ideas and bugs go to Redmine. Sign-up uses manual activation: register and I'll approve your account."
+  links:
+    - { title: "Forum", text: "Questions, ideas and scenario discussions.", href: "https://redmine.sokolab.xyz/projects/robotex/boards" }
+    - { title: "Bugs and requests", text: "Something broke or a feature is missing.", href: "https://redmine.sokolab.xyz/projects/robotex/issues" }
+    - { title: "Telegram", text: "Message me directly.", href: "https://t.me/xs0k0lx" }
+    - { title: "Source code", text: "The service code in my Gitea.", href: "https://git.sokolab.xyz/s0k0l/robotex" }
+
+footer: "Use Robotex only on sites where you have the right to do so."
+---