## TL;DR

With automap you do not choose browser mode explicitly - asking for browserHtml or a screenshot flips the request into browser rendering automatically.

## Fix

1. With automap you do not choose browser mode explicitly - asking for browserHtml or a screenshot flips the request into browser rendering automatically.
   Expected: you can confirm this matches your situation.

## When to use

- You are dealing with this situation.
- The symptom matches: Asking for browserHtml or screenshot auto-switches automap to browser mode.

## When NOT to use

- Unrelated issues with a different cause.
- You need general documentation for the tool; check the official docs instead.

## Compatibility

Reported per the linked source.

## Variant phrasings

### Asking for browserHtml or screenshot auto-switches automap to browser mode

## Why it happens

Zyte scrapy-zyte-api automap reference: requesting browserHtml or screenshot automatically switches the request to browser mode, and setting ZYTE_API_LOG_REQUESTS to true logs the exact JSON sent to Zyte - useful for debugging what automap actually requested.

## Edge cases

- If your error message differs even slightly, this is probably a different issue; search the exact text.
- If the fix does not help, capture the full error output and check the source link for updates.