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Dev tools · July 28, 2026

BrowserWorker

Remotely control real Chrome browsers with JSON API

BrowserWorker launched on July 28, 2026 with 3 votes, #8,766 of 24,623 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches.

What it does

BrowserWorker is Puppeteer/Playwright, but running on real Chrome browsers you already control — via a simple HTTP API. No headless bots, no cloud fees: your own Chrome is the worker, so clicks and typing look human, evading detection naturally. No AI tokens wasted babysitting page state — one API call in, one result out. Bring-your-own-browser economics skip per-minute cloud pricing. Persistent sessions, 40+ actions, screenshots, cookies — Playwright-grade automation, zero infra overhead.

Automate real browsers remotely via a simple API. Click, fill, scroll, screenshot, and bypass bot checks - powered by Chrome Extensions and built for any HTTP client.

Click, fill, scroll, screenshot, and bypass bot checks on Chrome and any Chromium-based browser (e.g. Brave, Opera) — remotely. Puppeteer-style synchronous results, built for developers and any automation tool. Watch a real Chrome browser being driven end-to-end by a single API call. A full automation toolkit exposed through one clean endpoint. Click, hover, fill, press, select, scroll, extract text/HTML/attributes, capture screenshots, and inject file uploads — with CSS or XPath selectors and iframe drilling. Bezier-curve mouse paths, realistic typing, and Cloudflare turnstile bypass to behave like a real user, not a bot. Extract text, HTML, attributes, and data from intercepted XHR…from browserworker.app

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