Is there any AI out there that can detect and fill in WiFi login pages typically found on hotel and company guest networks?
Show HN: Steel.dev – An open-source browser API for AI agents and apps
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Re: Show HN: Steel.dev – An open-source browser API for AI agents and apps
#32Browser as a service I understand, but what is the "for AI agents" part?
Re: Show HN: Steel.dev – An open-source browser API for AI agents and apps
#33I don't understand what problem you're solving that puppeteer doesn't already solve.
We love Puppeteer and use it to power our API! We don't compete with Puppeteer/Playwright/Selenium but we're focused on solving the problem of hosting Chromium browsers in the cloud. The workflow jump we've seen ourselves and from customers is that it's pretty straightforward to build these scripts locally, but the moment you want to run them in prod, you now need to deal with a ton of overhead around packaging up to…
I can relate to this exact experience and I think anybody who's tried to bring scraping to prod can as well!
Re: Show HN: Steel.dev – An open-source browser API for AI agents and apps
#34Happy to see there's a way to get browser automation for AI without building infrastructure to support it. Yet I don't see examples of connecting an LLM to drive a web session, just examples of using Puppeteer or Playwright or Selenium to drive a web session. Presumably your user base knows how to write custom code for an interface between Claude or OpenAI API and Puppeteer/Playwright/Selenium. Sadly, I don't know ho…
I’d recommend checking out Stagehand if you want to use something that’s more AI first! It’s like the AI powered successor to playwright: https://github.com/browserbase/stagehand
(I am one of the authors!)
Re: Show HN: Steel.dev – An open-source browser API for AI agents and apps
#35Why not a browser extension?
A browser extension would have to run on individual/personal browser; we're focused on providing infrastructure to run hundreds of browsers that you can connect to with code -- whether for automation or information retrieval.
Curious, what made you think browser extension first? :)
Re: Show HN: Steel.dev – An open-source browser API for AI agents and apps
#36beautiful docs + api ref! what are you using? (cool that you're doing open-source browserbase also, excited to check this out)
theyre using scalar :)
https://scalar.com https://github.com/scalar/scalar
(disclaimer: im the co-founder & ceo of scalar)
Re: Show HN: Steel.dev – An open-source browser API for AI agents and apps
#37I cant find any information on models you support?
You can use any model on top of us! We only provide browser infrastructure, so multiple warm browsers that you can connect to and drive using puppeteer, playwright, selenium, etc.
So you would just need to add some wrapper code and call those actions using a model of your choice.
We're working on more examples and guides that show how you can do this, so keep an eye out on our releases or hop in the discord and you should see some specific examples very soon!
Re: Show HN: Steel.dev – An open-source browser API for AI agents and apps
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
That honestly sounds so fun! Who better to build your defences than your attackers ahaha Tying into your concern, keeping IPs fresh and high quality will definitely be a balancing act as we get bigger. It'd be one today too if we were to try to offer super granular location controls because there's only so many proxies in X state, let alone X city. Currently, we get to aggregate & QA from multiple proxy providers, so…
you might have a captcha issue on your discord haha or something, I cannot join
well that's ironic ahaha just removed that for the time being, so hopefully you're good :)
Re: Show HN: Steel.dev – An open-source browser API for AI agents and apps
#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
That honestly sounds so fun! Who better to build your defences than your attackers ahaha Tying into your concern, keeping IPs fresh and high quality will definitely be a balancing act as we get bigger. It'd be one today too if we were to try to offer super granular location controls because there's only so many proxies in X state, let alone X city. Currently, we get to aggregate & QA from multiple proxy providers, so…
Is it possible to persist an IP address if we supply the proxy credentials?
yea, thats totally doable with us! The rest just depends on your proxy and whether it's rotating or persistent.
With our proxy service this is built for at least the length of a session (up to 24 hours).
Re: Show HN: Steel.dev – An open-source browser API for AI agents and apps
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
That honestly sounds so fun! Who better to build your defences than your attackers ahaha Tying into your concern, keeping IPs fresh and high quality will definitely be a balancing act as we get bigger. It'd be one today too if we were to try to offer super granular location controls because there's only so many proxies in X state, let alone X city. Currently, we get to aggregate & QA from multiple proxy providers, so…
+1 to residential proxy providers like joinmassive.com ! #proudinvestor
Looks sweet, we'll check em out!