# keon/browser-control

A tiny, fast Rust CLI that drives a real browser over the Chrome DevTools Protocol — built for coding agents.

Repository: https://github.com/keon/browser-control
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/browser-control
Language: Rust
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: rust, agent, browser-automation, llm
Last push: 2026-06-21T03:49:08+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 91/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 88, release rhythm 89, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3542, "days_push": 73, "days_rel": 73, "gap_med": 1, "n_releases_24m": 2}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3133, forks 208 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:45.576755+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: active
- function: cli, web-scraping, developer-tools, workflow-automation
- domain: developer-tools, web-development
- platform: cli, rust, cross-platform, windows
- tags: browser-automation, chrome-devtools-protocol, cdp, coding-agents, llm-tools, shell-native, headless-browser, command-line, automation, ai-agents, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- keon/browser-control (main) score 91

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:45.576755+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T07:26:07.770854+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/keon/browser-control (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:45.576755+00:00, sha 293679ed6ed3)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.