mcp browser automation

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Browser Automation @hrmeetsingh/mcp-browser-automation

Enables automation of browser tasks using Playwright by interacting via Claude Desktop for executing user-defined prompts and operations.

This is demo project to practice Model Context Protocol based server implemenation for automating browsing with Playwright. It interacts with a Claude Desktop client to accept user prompts and use server to control browser.

Browser Automation Server MCP server

Pre-requisites

Building

  1. Clone the repository: git clone https://github.com/hrmeetsingh/mcp-browser-automation.git
  2. Install dependencies: npm install
  3. Verify the output executables are present in dist folder

Integration

  1. Create a configuration file in ~/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json (This is for macOS)
  2. Copy the following to the file: 
    {
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-browser-automation": {
      "command": "node",
      "args": ["/path/to/mcp-browser-automation/dist/index.js"]
    }
  }
}
  3. Start Claude Desktop

Usage

  1. Open Claude Desktop
  2. Start a new conversation to open a browser and navigate to a URL

Example

  • Added MCP Server options Added MCP Server options

  • Navigating to a URL and doing actions with playwright Navigating to a URL and entering text