steel-dev / steel-browser
🔥 Open Source Browser API for AI Agents & Apps. Steel Browser is a batteries-included browser sandbox that lets you automate the web without worrying about infrastructure.
Why this job: topics: browser-automation, playwright, computer-use, browser-use
What it does
- Full Browser Control. Uses Puppeteer and CDP for complete control over Chrome instances -- allowing you to connect using Puppeteer, Playwright, or Selenium.
- Session Management. Maintains browser state, cookies, and local storage across requests
- Proxy Support. Built-in proxy chain management for IP rotation
- Extension Support. Load custom Chrome extensions for enhanced functionality
- Debugging Tools. Built-in request logging and a UI to view/debug sessions with
Get started
docker compose -f docker-compose.dev.yml up- Maintenance
- Active
- Last commit yesterday
- Stars
- 7,939
- +31 this week
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
- Allows business use
- Downloads for
- None listed
- No release files
- Latest version
- v0.5.5-beta
- Released 9 days ago
- Built with
- TypeScript
- 91% of the code
Is it looked after?
- Contributors
- 9
- Last 90 days
- Issues
- 44% closed
- 44 still open
- Pull requests
- 245 merged
- 40 waiting
- Releases
- 24
- 6 in the last year
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More: languages, topics and project record
Languages
- TypeScript 91%
- EJS 5%
- CSS 2%
- Dockerfile <1%
Topics
- ai
- ai-agents
- ai-tools
- browser-automation
- llm
- browser-use
- computer-use
- headless-browser
- mcp
- playwright
- puppeteer
Project record
- JobAutomation and scraping
- StatusListed
- Commits297
- Forks1,007
- Watching19
- Stars in 28 days+158
- CreatedNov 1, 2024
- First seen by usNov 7, 2026
- CheckedNov 9, 2026