>The Playwright MCP Chrome Extension allows you to connect to pages in your existing browser and leverage the state of your default user profile. This means the AI assistant can interact with websites where you're already logged in, using your existing cookies, sessions, and browser state, providing a seamless experience without requiring separate authentication or setup.
This article details how to use Playwright MCP and GitHub Copilot to reproduce and debug web app issues. It covers setup, a sample scenario, and the benefits of this debugging approach.
New release of shot-scraper CLI tool for taking screenshots and scraping web pages with support for HTTP Archive (HAR) files.
Browserbase provides a programmable browser platform that allows developers to automate complex online tasks using code. It offers features like advanced debugging, session recording, a proxy supernetwork, and bot detection avoidance to streamline web automation for compatibility with popular tools like Puppeteer, Playwright, and Selenium. The startup aims to serve as a key building block in an emerging AI software stack.
“It’s not going to be just developers writing this code, it’s going to be large language models generating this code longer term,” Klein explains. “So it’s both developers and LLMs controlling these web browsers to go out and automate the daily tasks we do online.