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keon/browser-control

A tiny, fast Rust CLI that drives a real browser over the Chrome DevTools Protocol — built for coding agents. observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/keon/browser-control · Rust · MIT (permissive) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

91/100

  • Activity 88
  • Release rhythm 89
  • Longevity 100
How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: 1
  • age_days: 3542
  • days_rel: 73
  • days_push: 73
  • n_releases_24m: 2

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

3133 stars · 208 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A small, fast Rust CLI that drives a real browser over the Chrome DevTools Protocol, designed for coding agents and shell pipelines. It exposes page snapshots with stable element refs, raw CDP access, and event/network/console tracing as composable subcommands.

Use cases

  • automate a browser from shell commands for a coding agent
  • click and interact with page elements using stable refs instead of brittle selectors
  • scrape or snapshot web page content as text or JSON
  • run raw CDP commands or JavaScript in a live browser
  • drive remote cloud browser sessions from one CLI
  • debug browser automation failures with event and console traces

When to choose

  • your agent or script can run shell commands and needs browser control without an SDK or MCP server
  • you want a single static binary with no language lock-in
  • you need LLM-friendly element refs and self-diagnosing traces
  • you want to switch between local Chrome and cloud browser providers with the same commands

When to avoid

  • you need a full end-to-end testing framework with assertions and fixtures
  • you prefer a high-level SDK in a specific language like Playwright or Selenium
  • you need to automate non-Chromium browsers like Firefox or Safari
  • you want a GUI for recording browser interactions

Facets

cli-tool · maturity active

cli web-scraping developer-tools workflow-automation developer-tools web-development cli rust cross-platform windows browser-automation chrome-devtools-protocol cdp coding-agents llm-tools shell-native headless-browser command-line automation ai-agents linux macos

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Member repositories

RepositoryRoleHealth v2
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markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="keon/browser-control")

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