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.

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This project offers a robust browser environment for building AI-powered web agents and automation tools. It takes instructions for web actions (like visiting pages, clicking, typing) and returns structured data, screenshots, or PDFs, without you needing to manage the underlying browser infrastructure. It's designed for developers creating AI applications that need to interact with the live web.

6,593 stars. Actively maintained with 7 commits in the last 30 days.

Use this if you are a developer building AI agents or applications that need to navigate websites, extract information, or perform actions reliably without getting blocked or having to set up your own browser automation servers.

Not ideal if you need a simple web scraping script or a manual browser automation tool, as this is designed for programmatic control via an API, not direct user interaction for ad-hoc tasks.

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Maintenance 17 / 25
Adoption 10 / 25
Maturity 16 / 25
Community 22 / 25

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6,593

Forks

921

Language

TypeScript

License

Apache-2.0

Last pushed

Mar 06, 2026

Commits (30d)

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