Steel Browser
Steel is a browser API that is compatible with Puppeteer, Playwright and Selenium, developed for AI agents and automation tools. It allows you to programmatically control browser processes with features such as session management, proxy chain, fingerprint management, and Chrome plugin support. It can be run on local or cloud environments via Docker.
steel-dev · Web Scraping & Automation
Common commercial products in this category: Bright Data, Apify, ScrapingBee
- Using Puppeteer, Playwright, or Selenium, you programmatically manage browser sessions.
- With internal proxy management and fingerprint configuration, you extract data from web pages.
- You convert web pages directly to Markdown, PDF or screenshot format.
- • NeutralGitHub Issue
Issue with live browser session: blank screen after refresh
“I’m currently using the hosted version of Steel Browser, and embedding the browser into my application using the `debugUrl` provided in response when initiating a new session. On the initial load, everything works as expected — I can see the live browser session successfully…”
- • NeutralGitHub Issue
DebugUrl not working when running steel locally
“Been trying to run scripts on steel, but debug urls just dont show anything,”