EchidnaProfiles
A profile is one browser identity: its own fingerprint, proxy, cookies, storage, extensions and history. This page covers creating profiles one at a time or in bulk, organising them and looking after their data.
Create a profile
In Profiles, press New profile (or Ctrl/⌘+N). Only the name is required. The editor has these tabs:
| Tab | What it holds |
|---|---|
| General | Profile name, Engine version (“Latest engine (auto)” or a specific Chrome version), Group, Tags, Notes and the pages to open at start. |
| Proxy | The profile's proxy. See Proxies and location. |
| Fingerprint | What websites see, and optional adjustments. See Fingerprints and personas. |
| Cookies | View, add, import and clear cookies. When creating a profile you can paste cookies to import right after it's created. |
| Data | Custom per-profile values used by flows. |
| Account | Saved logins for the profile, stored encrypted. |
| Identity, History | Shown for existing profiles: identity and card details for autofill, and the profile's history and health. |
| Advanced | Session, cache, extensions, captcha and the danger zone. |
Press Create profile to finish. Every new profile gets its own fingerprint. Because fingerprints are issued by Echidna's servers, creating a profile needs an internet connection and a signed-in app.
Naming rules
- Names must be unique and can't contain
/or\. - Use at most 200 characters.
- A few words are reserved and can't be used as names:
export,import,batch,bulk,search-keys,import-template,import-chrome. - Renaming keeps the profile's fingerprint, cookies and history. A profile must be closed to rename it.
Open and close profiles
Each row has buttons that match the profile's state:
| State | Buttons |
|---|---|
| Closed | Open starts a normal browser window you use yourself. |
| Open with a window | Show brings the window to the front; Close stops the profile and saves its data. |
| Open automated | CDP gives the address scripts connect to; Close stops it. |
| Queued | Cancel removes it from the launch queue. |
Right-click a profile for more, including Open automated (no window, for scripts via the CDP address), Copy CDP URL, Copy Selenium address, Check proxy and Rename…. Each profile's browser window is named after the profile, so you can tell them apart when switching windows.
If you open more profiles than Settings → Launch allows at once, the extra ones show Queued and open by themselves as soon as another closes. Set Profiles open at once to 0 to let Echidna choose from your computer's memory and processor.
Groups, tags and views
- Groups work like folders: each profile is in at most one. Use the group bar above the table (All, Ungrouped and your groups). Right-click a group to rename it or remove it; removing a group keeps its profiles.
- Tags are labels; a profile can have several. Search for a tag with
tag:name. - Filter by state with All, Open and Closed, and choose what the table shows with Views and Columns.
Select several profiles to get the bulk bar: Open, Automated, Close, Edit, Tools… and Delete. Tools… includes Mass edit…, Move to group…, Add tags…, Assign proxies from pool…, Arrange windows…, Run flow…, browser-data actions and Duplicate….
Create many at once
Open the menu next to New profile and choose Batch create…. Each profile gets its own new fingerprint and, optionally, its own proxy.
- Numbered names: a name template such as
shop-{n:03}(placeholders{n},{n:03},{rand:4},{group},{date}), a start number and how many, up to 500 at a time. - Paste one per line: each line is a name,
name:proxy, a proxy on its own, orname:::proxy. Lines starting with#are ignored. - Proxies can be No proxy, Paste a list (used in order) or From saved proxies (A different one each or Take turns).
Press Create N to finish.
Import profiles
Choose Import profiles above the table. You can import from a file or pasted text, or from a Chrome profile folder.
| Format | Notes |
|---|---|
| Detect automatically | The default. |
| Echidna CSV or JSON | Use Download template for a ready-made file. |
| AdsPower, GoLogin, Multilogin exports | Their export files. |
| TabSentry tasks CSV | |
| One profile per line | Plain text. |
Every imported profile gets its own new fingerprint. When a name already exists you can Skip it, Import it with a new name or Update the existing profile. Importing from a Chrome profile folder brings over cookies only; on macOS and Windows, cookies that Chrome locks with the system keychain can't be read.
Duplicate a profile
Tools… → Duplicate… makes 1 to 50 copies that keep the settings, group, tags, proxy and notes. Name copies with {name}, {n} or {n:03}.
- New device (recommended) gives each copy a new fingerprint (this needs an internet connection).
- Same device keeps the original fingerprint, so sites will see one machine.
- Also copy cookies and extension data brings logins along.
Cookies and sessions
- On the Cookies tab, press Load cookies to view them, then Add, Import, Clear all or Save cookies. Import accepts Echidna/Playwright JSON, EditThisCookie or Cookie-Editor JSON, and Netscape
cookies.txt. Tick “Delete the profile's existing cookies first” to replace instead of merge. - Advanced → Session → Keep session cookies and tabs between launches restores session cookies and open tabs next time.
- Clear cache (Advanced tab, profile closed) frees space and keeps cookies and logins.
Extensions
On the Advanced tab, press Add extension folder to add an unpacked extension to the profile. Extensions and their data stay inside the profile.
Delete a profile
Close the profile, then choose Delete… from its menu or the Danger zone on the Advanced tab. Deleting removes the profile's fingerprint, cookies, logins and history, and can't be undone. Keep a backup (Settings → Backup) if you might need them.
With Ask before deleting a profile on (the default, in Settings → General), Echidna asks first. Deleting several at once always asks, and from 10 profiles on you type the number to confirm.
Where profiles are stored
Profiles live only on your computer, in Echidna's data folder (~/.echidna; on Windows C:\Users\you\.echidna). The exact profiles folder is shown in Settings → General → Data & logs. To put profiles on another disk, use Settings → Storage → Move…. Nothing is uploaded.