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Browserless is answering right now. Last checked 9 min ago. 2 536 installs a week from npm. Last commit 17 Oct 2026.

Official Browserless MCP server: browser automation, scraping, screenshots and PDFs for AI agents.

Installs per day peak 984 · avg 469 · -3% w/w
a month agotoday
Uptime history 5 hours of history
5 hours agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
15 of 15 checks
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Tools
hidden behind auth
586 ms
Response time
average over 24h
2 536
Installs / week
npm and PyPI

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Browserless every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

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Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 9 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add mcp --transport http https://mcp.browserless.io/mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp": {
      "url": "https://mcp.browserless.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.mcp]
url = "https://mcp.browserless.io/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp": {
      "url": "https://mcp.browserless.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp": {
      "url": "https://mcp.browserless.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}

This one needs environment variables set before it will start: BROWSERLESS_TOKEN (Your Browserless API token), BROWSERLESS_API_URL (Browserless API endpoint (regional or self-hosted)). The author declared them in the registry entry; get the values from the project itself.

This endpoint answered with an authorization challenge. The server is running, and it signs you in through your browser: there is no API key to paste.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://mcp.browserless.io/mcp streamable-http sign-in 566 ms 9 min ago

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Browserless — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no tool list for Browserless?
The server answered our handshake with an authorization challenge, so it is running — but it will not describe its tools to an anonymous client. To see them you need to connect with your own credentials. We record it as alive, not as broken: 100.0% of checks in the last 24 hours got a reply.
Is Browserless working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 15 of 15 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 586 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Browserless?
Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address. You sign in through your browser once and the client keeps the session: no key to copy, and it refuses anonymous clients.
How do you sign in to Browserless?
No API key is involved. Browserless answers our knock with an OAuth challenge, so you authorise it once in your browser and the client keeps the session. That is also why we see no tool list: it will not describe itself to an anonymous client, and that is the server working as intended, not a fault.
How fast is Browserless?
It answers our handshake in 586 ms on average, which is faster than 18% of all working MCP servers we measure. That is on the slow side — worth knowing if the tool sits inside an interactive loop. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.
How many people use Browserless?
The npm package @browserless.io/mcp was installed 2 536 times in the last week. Week over week that is -3%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.
Is Browserless open source?
We cannot say either way: written in TypeScript and 8 stars on GitHub, but we could not determine the licence, and without one the code is not open source by default.