majiayu000 Browser Automation with agent-browser
IMPORTANT: Before navigating to localhost:3000, you MUST load the auth cookies found in apps/viewer/src/test/.auth/user.json
agent-browser cookies set "authjs.session-token" "<value-from-user.json>"
agent-browser cookies set "authjs.csrf-token" "<value-from-user.json>"
agent-browser open http://localhost:3000/typebots
Quick start
agent-browser open <url> # Navigate to page
agent-browser snapshot -i # Get interactive elements with refs
agent-browser click @e1 # Click element by ref
agent-browser fill @e2 "text" # Fill input by ref
agent-browser close # Close browser
Core workflow
- Navigate:
agent-browser open <url> - Snapshot:
agent-browser snapshot -i(returns elements with refs like@e1,@e2) - Interact using refs from the snapshot
- Re-snapshot after navigation or significant DOM changes
Commands
Navigation
agent-browser open <url> # Navigate to URL
agent-browser back # Go back
agent-browser forward # Go forward
agent-browser reload # Reload page
agent-browser close # Close browser
Snapshot (page analysis)
agent-browser snapshot # Full accessibility tree
agent-browser snapshot -i # Interactive elements only (recommended)
agent-browser snapshot -c # Compact output
agent-browser snapshot -d 3 # Limit depth to 3
Interactions (use @refs from snapshot)
agent-browser click @e1 # Click
agent-browser dblclick @e1 # Double-click
agent-browser fill @e2 "text" # Clear and type
agent-browser type @e2 "text" # Type without clearing
agent-browser press Enter # Press key
agent-browser press Control+a # Key combination
agent-browser hover @e1 # Hover
agent-browser check @e1 # Check checkbox
agent-browser uncheck @e1 # Uncheck checkbox
agent-browser select @e1 "value" # Select dropdown
agent-browser scroll down 500 # Scroll page
agent-browser scrollintoview @e1 # Scroll element into view
Get information
agent-browser get text @e1 # Get element text
agent-browser get value @e1 # Get input value
agent-browser get title # Get page title
agent-browser get url # Get current URL
Screenshots
agent-browser screenshot # Screenshot to stdout
agent-browser screenshot path.png # Save to file
agent-browser screenshot --full # Full page
Prefer full page screenshot to get as much information as possible.
Wait
agent-browser wait @e1 # Wait for element
agent-browser wait 2000 # Wait milliseconds
agent-browser wait --text "Success" # Wait for text
agent-browser wait --load networkidle # Wait for network idle
Semantic locators (alternative to refs)
agent-browser find role button click --name "Submit"
agent-browser find text "Sign In" click
agent-browser find label "Email" fill "user@test.com"
Example: Form submission
agent-browser open https://example.com/form
agent-browser snapshot -i
# Output shows: textbox "Email" [ref=e1], textbox "Password" [ref=e2], button "Submit" [ref=e3]
agent-browser fill @e1 "user@example.com"
agent-browser fill @e2 "password123"
agent-browser click @e3
agent-browser wait --load networkidle
agent-browser snapshot -i # Check result
Cookies management
agent-browser cookies get # Get all cookies
agent-browser cookies get --json # Get as JSON
agent-browser cookies set <name> <val> # Set a cookie
agent-browser cookies clear # Clear all cookies
Sessions (parallel browsers)
agent-browser --session test1 open site-a.com
agent-browser --session test2 open site-b.com
agent-browser session list
JSON output (for parsing)
Add --json for machine-readable output:
agent-browser snapshot -i --json
agent-browser get text @e1 --json
Debugging
agent-browser open example.com --headed # Show browser window
agent-browser console # View console messages
agent-browser errors # View page errors