The company blog of Browserbase, which sells hosted headless browsers for AI agents, covering its Chromium fork, infrastructure and agent tooling.
HN commenters mostly mention Browserbase as a comparison point or alternative when others show similar browser automation tools, rather than discussing its blog posts.
If you're open to it, I'd love to hear what you think of what we're building at https://browserbase.com/ - you can run a chrome extension on a headless browser so you can do the semantic markdown within the browser, before pulling anything off.
We even have an iFrame-able live view of the browser, so your users can get real-time feedback on the XPaths they're generating: https://docs.browserbase.com/features/session-live-view#give-control-over-the-session-to-your-end-users
Happy to answer any questions!
TLDR: They're promoting a product they're working on with Cloudfare under the guise of it being an "open standard" [1]. Of course, in the docs, Step 1 is "Sign in with your Cloudfare account". Comes across a bit land-grabby.
[1] https://www.browserbase.com/blog/cloudflare-browserbase-pioneering-identity
Have you considered removing all headless traits so that agent wont be easily detected, just like what browserbase did here？
https://www.browserbase.com/blog/chromium-fork-for-ai-automation
We do not use click farms :)
You should check out our most recent announcement about Web Bot Auth
https://www.browserbase.com/blog/cloudflare-browserbase-pioneering-identity
Very cool - and impressive speed!
How does it compare with headless browser services like https://browserless.io or https://browserbase.com ?
How are you different from https://www.browserbase.com/ and their Stagehand framework? [0]
[0]https://github.com/browserbase/stagehand