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browser-use: Automate Web Tasks

Name: browser-use: Automate Web Tasks
Author: browser-use

Founders use browser-use to automate online tasks with ease, ideal for startups needing AI-powered browser automation.

107,682 stars11,831 forksPythonHealth Score 9/10Updated 8/3/2026100% free · open source

What it does

Browser-use automates online tasks with ease by providing a Python library to control a browser, ideal for startups needing AI-powered browser automation.

Install / run

pip install browser-use

When to use it

•When you need to automatically fill out forms on a website
•When you want to scrape data from a website that uses JavaScript
•When you need to automate user interactions on a website for testing or datacollection

Quick start

1Import the library in your Python script with `from browser_use import Browser`
2Create a new browser instance with `browser = Browser()`
3Navigate to a website with `browser.get('https://www.example.com')`
4Perform an action on the website with `browser.find_element_by_css_selector('#element').click()`
5Close the browser with `browser.quit()`

Ready-to-paste prompt

browser.get('https://www.example.com/form')
browser.find_element_by_name('username').send_keys('your_username')
browser.find_element_by_name('password').send_keys('your_password')
browser.find_element_by_name('submit').click()

Heads up: Make sure you have the correct version of Chrome or Firefox installed, as browser-use is built on top of Selenium and requires a compatible browser version

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Topics

ai-agents

ai-tools

browser-automation

browser-use

llm

playwright

python

How browser-use: Automate Web Tasks works

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Browser-use: Automate Web Tasks is a very large Python project (~101k lines across 389 code files). It is a full software project: use it through its install path rather than reading it end to end. Last commit this month, MIT license, has a test suite.

Size

Very large codebase

~101k lines · 389 code files · days to read — use, don't read

Setup

Developer setup

A real software project. Use it via its install path; don't expect to read it all.

Runs on

Python · Docker

Needs API keys (.env)

Python 99%

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