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Description

Deploy headless browsers in Docker. Run on cloud or bring your own infrastructure. Provides powerful web automation and rendering capabilities for AI agents. Free for non-commercial uses.

Key Features

  • Docker-based headless browser with Chromium, Firefox, WebKit on ARM64 and x64
  • Parallel session management with concurrency limits and real-time debug viewer
  • BrowserQL for bot bypass, captcha solving, fingerprint randomization, proxy rotation
  • REST APIs for HTML/PDF generation, smart scraping, full-site crawling, web search
  • MCP Server integration for Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code browser automation
  • Persistent sessions storing cookies, cache, localStorage up to 90 days

Use Cases

💡 Web scraping and data extraction at scale with retry strategies
💡 AI agent browser automation for research, form filling, and web tasks
💡 Automated web testing with parallel sessions and real-time debugging
💡 PDF generation, screenshots, and rendering for document pipelines

Strengths & Limitations

✅ Strengths

  • • Actively maintained, recent updates
  • • High community interest (13.6k stars)
  • • Responsive to issues, low backlog

⚠️ Limitations

  • • No clear open-source license

Tags

typescript browser tools automation api

Categories

🌐 Browser Agent

Quick Start

docker run -p 3000:3000 ghcr.io/browserless/chromium
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