Browserbase MCP Server

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Cloud headless browsers the assistant can drive and observe.

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Publisher

Browserbase

License

Apache-2.0

Transport

Local subprocess

Tools

4

What this server does

Browserbase runs real headless browsers in the cloud, so automation does not tie up your machine and pages render exactly as a browser sees them. The MCP server drives these sessions: navigate, act on elements with natural-language instructions, extract structured data, and screenshot. Because the browser is remote, it can reach sites that block datacenter scrapers less aggressively and it isolates page execution from your laptop. A Gemini key powers the default vision-driven actions.

Tools included

  • browserbase_navigate

    Open a URL in a cloud browser session.

  • browserbase_act

    Perform a natural-language action on the page.

  • browserbase_extract

    Extract structured data from the page.

  • browserbase_screenshot

    Capture a screenshot of the current page.

The authoritative list comes from the server's tools/list at runtime. This catalog entry may lag the upstream until the next ToolPiper release.

Install in ToolPiper

ToolPiper handles the JSON configuration. Click Install, fill in any required tokens, and the server is ready in your chat.

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Install in another client

Install in another MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Continue, Cline)

Add this to ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "browserbase": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@browserbasehq/mcp-server-browserbase"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Example prompts

  • "Open the login page, sign in with these test credentials, and screenshot the dashboard."

  • "Navigate to this product page and extract the title, price, and availability."

  • "Go to the search results and collect the first 10 listing URLs."

Security notes

Three credentials are involved: the Browserbase API key and project ID gate your cloud browser usage and billing, and the Gemini key bills against Google. Treat all three as credentials. Cloud sessions can reach any URL the assistant is told to, so do not feed it untrusted instructions. Browsing real sites with real credentials means those credentials transit Browserbase's infrastructure.

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