Browsers as a Service
Browsers as a Service (BaaS) is a direct browser-as-a-service API that you can connect to using standard libraries like Puppeteer or Playwright. If you're building automations that need to interact with websites, fill out forms, or replicate user actions, BaaS manages that infrastructure so you don't have to maintain your own fleet of headless browsers.
BaaS closely mimics running a browser locally, allowing you to use familiar code by simply changing your connection URL to point at Browserless.
Key Features
- Direct Browser Control: Connect using standard libraries like Puppeteer or Playwright
- Persistent browser session: Maintain browser state across multiple operations and reconnections
- Advanced stealth options: Bypass bot detection with sophisticated evasion techniques
- Hybrid automation: Combine automated scripts with human interaction capabilities
- Auto-scaling Infrastructure: Handles concurrent requests with automatic recovery and scaling
- Recording Sessions with LiveURL: Generate temporary public URLs for human interaction with automated sessions
Primary Use Cases
- Internal Tool Automation: Perfect for automating your own applications and internal tools
- Data Extraction: Scraping content from sites without sophisticated bot detection
- Testing & QA: Automated testing of web applications at scale
- Content Generation: Creating screenshots, PDFs, and other browser-rendered content
- Monitoring: Automated health checks and performance monitoring
Supported Libraries
Next Steps
Ready to dive deeper into BaaS? Explore these key areas to maximize your browser automation capabilities: