# intoli/remote-browser

A low-level browser automation framework built on top of the Web Extensions API standard.

Repository: https://github.com/intoli/remote-browser
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/remote-browser
Language: JavaScript
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Last push: 2018-07-14T22:44:50+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3100, "days_push": 2972, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1750, forks 106 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:31.114044+00:00)

## What it is
Remote Browser is a JavaScript library for programmatically controlling browsers like Chrome and Firefox, built on the standard Web Extensions API. It offers a cross-browser alternative to Puppeteer and Selenium for tasks like UI testing, SSR, and web scraping.

## Use cases
- automate chrome and firefox from node.js
- scrape websites with a real browser
- run ui tests across browsers
- server-side render web pages
- control a browser programmatically via web extensions api

## When to choose
- you need cross-browser automation using standard Web Extensions APIs instead of vendor-specific protocols
- you want a lightweight, low-level alternative to Puppeteer or Selenium

## When to avoid
- you need a mature, actively maintained tool with recent releases
- you only target Chromium and prefer Puppeteer's richer ecosystem

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: web-scraping, testing, ssr, http-client
- domain: web-development, testing, developer-tools
- platform: cross-platform
- tags: browser-automation, web-extensions-api, puppeteer-alternative, selenium-alternative, ui-testing, automation, nodejs, javascript

## Member repositories
- intoli/remote-browser (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:31.114044+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 2026-08-30T03:28:44.760985+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/intoli/remote-browser (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:31.114044+00:00, sha 97d42388fd9f)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/remote-browser (fetched 2026-08-29T11:06:51.076215+00:00, sha a492eb9d43fd)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.