Restarter

A small desktop program that watches whether your surf link (https://cortaly.com/surf/yourusername) is still actively earning, and reopens it automatically if it looks like it stalled — a crashed tab, a closed browser, a dropped connection, your computer waking from sleep, and so on. The same idea as the "Restarter" tool some other traffic exchanges offer.

It works whether or not you use the browser extension — your surf link runs entirely on its own, so reopening it is all that's needed to pick back up. It never touches your other browser tabs or windows, and never needs a password or login of its own — just your username.

Download

Setup

macOS

Unzip the download, then double-click CortalyRestarter.app. If macOS blocks it the first time ("unidentified developer"), right-click the app and choose Open once — you only need to do that once. Enter your username (yourusername), pick which browser to reopen the link in, and press Start.

Windows

Run the download and click through the installer (Next → Next → Install) — no separate Python needed, everything it needs is bundled in. It adds a Start Menu shortcut and a normal entry under Settings → Apps for uninstalling later, no admin rights required. Windows may show a "Windows protected your PC" warning on the very first run of a fresh, unsigned program — click More info → Run anyway. Prefer a portable, no-install copy, or need to build it yourself for Linux? Use the source download below (build-windows.bat / build-linux.sh) or its portable ZIP.

Linux

Unzip the download, then cd restarter. Make sure Python 3 with Tk support is installed (sudo apt install python3 python3-tk on Debian/Ubuntu), then run ./build-linux.sh from a terminal — it needs the sibling browser-extension/ folder from the same download to also be there, which is why the download unzips into two folders instead of one. It builds dist/cortaly-restarter, ready to run directly or copy into ~/.local/bin/.

Settings

The app remembers your username, which browser to use, how often it checks (default every 30 seconds), and how long to wait between restart attempts (default 90 seconds, so a genuine outage doesn't trigger a new browser tab every single check). A checkbox lets it start automatically whenever you log in to your computer.

Running it on more than one computer at once? Put yourusername.anything into the username field instead of just yourusername — the part after the dot is only a label for you (so you can tell which computer is which), everything still credits your account, and it works fine simultaneously as long as each computer has a different IP address. See your referral page for more on this.