Stagehand
Stagehand offers natural language-operated act, observe, and extract methods alongside Playwright-style API, such as a TypeScript, Python, and Go to develop browser agents; it updates itself by repairing how actions are done when the site changes. Clipping the accessibility tree gives the agent the page context needed alone; it contains OTel tracks with deep-positioners for the nested iframe and closed Shadow DOM.
browserbase · Web Scraping & Automation
Common commercial products in this category: Bright Data, Apify, ScrapingBee
- Using natural language commands, you perform autonomous actions on web pages.
- You draw structured data from complex DOM structures on web pages with the extract API.
- When the page structure changes, you design reliable task streams that automatically update themselves.
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Show HN: Stagehand – an open source browser automation framework powered by AI
“Yes and no. Getting a VLM to work on the web would definitely be great, but it comes with its own problems, mainly around developing and acting on bounding boxes. We have vision as a default fallback for Stagehand, but we've found that the screenshot sent to the VLM often has to…”
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Show HN: Stagehand – an open source browser automation framework powered by AI
“Yes! These are both phenomenal projects, and kudos to their authors as well. Stagehand is different in that it makes fine-grained control a first-class citizen. Often times, you want to control the exact steps a web agent takes. Our experience using other tools was that the only…”
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