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Dev tools · August 22, 2018

browserless

The only headless browser service.

browserless launched on August 22, 2018 with 11 votes, #927 of 2,619 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 8 years on.

What it does

Chrome as a service in docker. Bring your own cloud or hardware. Stop spending time running and scaling Chrome, and more time on your application: with browserless.io.

Give your AI agents a real cloud browser that won't crash or get blocked. Connect over MCP, Puppeteer, or Playwright with stealth and Authenticated Profiles built in.

Bring your own agent and library, or run ours. Stealth, CAPTCHA, residential proxies, and authenticated profiles that persist and scale to thousands. Your agent gets in, and gets it done. Trusted by 2,000+ teams , from solo devs to global enterprise. Connect over the protocol you already use, stay logged in across runs, and let Browserless eat the stealth and bot-detection headaches so your code doesn't have to. Give your agent search, scrape, and crawl tools over MCP. Plug in Claude, Cursor, or any MCP client and let it pull live web data without getting blocked. Run our Browserless agent instead of building one. It drives a real browser across multi-step tasks and finishes them, fast and…from browserless.io

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