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Connect your AI agents
to the real web with MCP browser automation

Run browser automation through the Model Context Protocol so your AI agents can navigate, scrape, and interact with web pages.

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Give your AI agent the ability to interact with the live web

Plug your agent into the MCP clients you already use, give it a real Chrome browser running in the cloud, and let Browserless handle stealth and bot detection at the infrastructure level.

Real browser, not a simulation
Browserless MCP runs on a full Chrome instance, so your agents see what a real user sees: JavaScript-rendered content, dynamic page states, and fully rendered UI components.
Built for AI workflows
Connect Claude, Cursor, or any MCP-compatible client in minutes. Your agent gets access to browser tools it can use – screenshots, form filling, navigation, web scraping – without extra configuration.
Stealth built in
Bot detection, CAPTCHAs, and network latency are managed at the infrastructure level. You get better performance and fewer interruptions, without maintaining the stack.
Runs in the cloud, not on your machine
Your browser activity runs on remote servers, not your local device. No resource drain, no browser instance sitting idle, and no performance limitations tied to local hardware.

Works with the MCP clients you already use

Browserless MCP works with your favorite AI clients or your own custom AI app. Claude Desktop and Cursor sign in with OAuth – no API token plumbing required.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "browserless": {
      "url": "https://mcp.browserless.io/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer your-token-here"
      }
    }
  }
}

The MCP server exposes nine tools

Nine browser tools your AI agent can call on demand, from smart scraping and web search to Lighthouse audits and custom Puppeteer code, all running on Browserless’s managed, stealth-enabled infrastructure.

Just point your agent at a URL

Once the MCP server is configured, your browser agent uses it as a set of tools it calls on demand. The agent controls the browser through a clean interface. You don’t manage the underlying browser instance.

Ask your AI assistant

Sign into with these credentials and summarize what’s on the dashboard.

Take a screenshot and extract all links from .

Run a Lighthouse audit on and show me the scores.

Crawl up to 3 levels deep and summarize each page.

Export as a full offline ZIP with all assets.

Your agent picks the right tool for each task: browserless_agent for the login flow, browserless_performance for the Lighthouse audit, browserless_crawl for the site walk.

What you can do with Browserless MCP

With Browserless, you have a cleaner path for your browser automation workflows.

Web scraping at scale
Automate the extraction of data from websites, even those that rely on JavaScript rendering or require a login. Your agent navigates, waits for content, and pulls what you need.
Automated form filling
Instruct your agent to complete and submit forms across multiple sites, useful for repetitive data entry, testing flows, or integrating with services that don’t offer an API.
End-to-end testing
Run tests against real browser sessions rather than mocked environments. Your agent interacts with the page the way a user would, which surfaces issues that headless testing often misses.
Visual monitoring and screenshots
Take screenshots of pages on a schedule or in response to events. Your agent can log changes and flag anomalies, feeding visual context back into your AI pipeline.
Research and data gathering
Point your agent at a set of URLs and have it return structured content, extracted details, and summaries – no need to write custom scraping code for each source.
Site mapping and URL discovery
Give your agent a domain and it crawls the site to return a structured list of every page – useful for audits, content inventories, competitor research, or building a URL list.

How to use your MCP as a web scraper

Browserless gives your agent a cloud-based browser for scraping web pages, with no Chrome instances to spin up and no bot detection workarounds to maintain.

Handle JavaScript-rendered pages

Many modern websites don’t serve useful content in the initial HTML response. Browserless loads the full page in a real Chrome session, so your agent sees the rendered output, not just the source.

Avoid basic bot detection

Running through Browserless gives your agent a real browser fingerprint rather than a headless marker that detection systems flag immediately. You’re not invisible, but you’re significantly less likely to get blocked.

Scale without local resource limits

Spin up multiple browser sessions on remote servers without hitting the CPU and memory limits of your local machine. Your scraping throughput scales with your workload, not your hardware.

Return clean, structured content

Rather than raw HTML, your agent can return the content in a format your project can actually use – ready to store, analyze, process, or pass into the next step of your workflow.

Bot detection that gets out of your way

Browserless protects two paths automatically, and you don’t write the escalation logic.

One-off scrapes

browserless_smartscraper

A cascading strategy – Smart Scraper picks the lightest tier that works for the URL you give it:

1

HTTP fetch – fast and free of browser overhead. Used when the page returns useful HTML directly.

2

Proxy – escalates here when the site rate-limits or geo-blocks the fetch.

3

Headless Chrome – full real-browser render when the page needs JavaScript.

4

CAPTCHA solving – kicks in when the browser hits reCAPTCHA, Cloudflare Turnstile, or DataDome.

You pay only for the tier the page actually requires. A static blog post never spins up a browser; an SPA behind Cloudflare gets the full stack.

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Multi-turn flows

browserless_agent

The same stealth and CAPTCHA infrastructure, but the session persists. Solve a CAPTCHA once and the cookie carries through every subsequent tool call. Log in once and stay logged in across navigation, form fills, and pagination.

The agent runs a ReAct loop – navigate, snapshot the page, plan, act, and re-snapshot when the page changes. State doesn't reset between tool calls, so your agent can drive logins, multi-step forms, and anything that needs the browser's state to survive between turns.

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Ready to try the benefits of Browserless for AI?

Start with 1,000 free units – no credit card required. Connect your MCP client via OAuth or API key and your agent is ready to scrape, search, and automate in minutes.