Reuse browsers for multiple automations, with our improved reconnect API

Extract HTML from dynamic sites while dodging bot detectors

Headless browsers for you to use via our scraping APIs or directly with Puppeteer and Playwright

Features to avoid different strengths of captcha

Enable our residential proxies, headful browsers and stealth arguments to help you get past most detectors.

For the extra stubborn sites, we also have our /unblock API to hide even the most subtle signs of automation or solveCaptcha for solving mandatory captchas.

Avoid bot detectors

Get the HTML to use with Scrapy or Beautiful Soup

Our /content API renders and evaluates a page with our browsers, then returns the HTML.

You can then use a library such as Scrapy or Beautiful Soup to extract the data you need. This gives you the advantages of headless such as JavaScript rendering and captcha avoidance, without having to run them yourself.

Learn about using Scrapy with Browserless

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Cloud provider and scripting library logos on the left, with the browserless and browser logos on the right

Use the full power of Puppeteer and Playwright

Unlike many scraping tools, you can use the standard Puppeteer and Playwright libraries to run any script.

You can click buttons, navigate dynamic content or anything else. Just host the scripts in your servers and connect them to our browsers.

Getting started docs

Use our API or an unforked library

Content API for HTML payloads

Get a pages content after JavaScript has ran.

Scraping API to return JSON

Puppeteer or Playwright

See the Docs


// Automatically responds with the pages HTML payload
$ curl -X POST \
https://chrome.browserless.io/content \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{
"url": "https://example.com/"
}'


// Returns the JSON of the elements specified
$ curl -X POST \
https://chrome.browserless.io/scrape \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{
  "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/",
  "elements": [{
    "selector": ".athing .titlelink"
  }]
}'


// From inside your Node application
import puppeteer from 'puppeteer';

// Replace puppeteer.launch with puppeteer.connect
const browser = await puppeteer.connect({
  browserWSEndpoint: 'wss://chrome.browserless.io'
});

// The rest of your script remains the same
const page = await browser.newPage();
await page.goto('https://example.com/');
console.log(await page.title());
browser.close();

Customer Stories

"We started using another scraping company's headless browserless to run Puppeteer scripts. But, it required a Vercel upgrade due to slow fetch times, and the proxies weren't running correctly. I found Browserless and had our Puppeteer code running within an hour. The scrapes are now 5x faster and 1/3rd of the price, plus the support has been excellent."

Nicklas Smit

Full-Stack Developer, Takeoff Copenhagen

"We built a scraping tool to train our chatbots on public website data, but it quickly got complicated due to edge cases and bot detection. I found Browserless and set aside a day for the integration, but it only took a couple of hours. I didn't need to become an expert in managing proxy servers or virtual computers, so now I can stay focused on core parts of the business."

Mike Heap