stagehand AI-based browser automation framework

Stagehand is an open-source AI browser automation framework by Browserbase, fully compatible with Playwright, enabling actions like click, type, and data extraction via natural language or code. It features preview and caching of AI-driven actions to reduce token usage and supports one-line integration of OpenAI and Anthropic models for complex workflows while retaining native Playwright control. The latest V2.0 release delivers lightning-fast act and extract operations, enhanced logging, improved error handling, and revamped documentation with rich examples, empowering developers to build repeatable, maintainable browser automation with ease.

Official website: https://www.stagehand.dev/
Source code: https://github.com/browserbase/stagehand
Documentation: https://docs.stagehand.dev/get_started/introduction

Why Stagehand?

The simple answer is that existing solutions are either too brittle or too agentic.

You might’ve heard of OpenAI Operator, which is a web agent that uses Playwright to take actions on a website.

While OpenAI Operator is a great tool, it is completely agentic; agents leave you at the mercy of AI to do the right thing over a large number of tasks. Agents are fundamentally designed for one-shotting tasks, not repeatability.

Put simply, you can’t control what an agent does.

What about Playwright, Puppeteer, and Selenium?

Not only are these tools tedious and cumbersome to write, but they are also brittle. If you don’t own the website, you can’t control what the DOM looks like.

As a result, Playwright, Puppeteer, and Selenium force you to write brittle code that breaks when the website makes even a slight UI change.

Stagehand gives you control over your browser automations

By combining agents, tools, and Playwright, Stagehand lets you write deterministic code that is resilient to unpredictable DOM changes.

• Repeatability: Write code that can be repeated exactly the same way every time.
• Resilience: Write code that is resilient to unpredictable DOM changes.

It allows you to build as complex or as simple browser automations as you want, like the example below.

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