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Re: Show HN: Browser MCP – Automate your browser using Cursor, Claude, VS Code

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Post by 101008 »

mgraczyk wrote: post #29
101008 wrote: post #17

Good, just what we needed. More bots browsing the internet. Somedays I think I am not 100% against of every website having a captcha...

It's a developer tool

Then it should be limited to localhost or something similar.

Re: Show HN: Browser MCP – Automate your browser using Cursor, Claude, VS Code

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handfuloflight wrote: post #30
101008 wrote: post #17

Good, just what we needed. More bots browsing the internet. Somedays I think I am not 100% against of every website having a captcha...

Not out of the realm of possibility that this very comment was written by a bot prompted to write a negative response to a given piece of content.

Not, human tired of creating content to put online and being consumed not by people but by bots or any other form of mechanical consumption that I don't like. As the owner of the content I think I have the right to set that preference, don't you think?

Re: Show HN: Browser MCP – Automate your browser using Cursor, Claude, VS Code

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Post by ajcp »

behnamoh wrote: post #20

What I don't like about LLMs is that people keep re-inventing the wheel over and over. For example, we've been able to control browsers using GPT for about 2 years now: - https://github.com/mayt/BrowserGPT - https://github.com/TaxyAI/browser-extension - https://github.com/browser-use/browser-use - https://github.com/Skyvern-AI/skyvern - https://github.com/m1guelpf/browser-agent - https://github.com/richardyc/Chrome-G…

I think this is noteworthy in that it is using what is increasingly becoming the dominant API protocol for LLM.

Just because the wheel exists doesn't mean we shouldn't strive to make it better by applying new knowledge and technologies to it.

Re: Show HN: Browser MCP – Automate your browser using Cursor, Claude, VS Code

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Post by decayiscreation »

BrandiATMuhkuh wrote: post #21

This is really well done! Very cool. I wonder if it's possible to add such plugins to election apps (e.g.: Slack). It would be such a nice experience if I could just connect my AI of choice to a local app.

Good idea! I'm sure this is possible since it looks like playwright can control electron apps. https://playwright.dev/docs/api/class-electronapplication

Re: Show HN: Browser MCP – Automate your browser using Cursor, Claude, VS Code

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Post by chrisweekly »

BrandiATMuhkuh wrote: post #21

This is really well done! Very cool. I wonder if it's possible to add such plugins to election apps (e.g.: Slack). It would be such a nice experience if I could just connect my AI of choice to a local app.

election -> Electron

Re: Show HN: Browser MCP – Automate your browser using Cursor, Claude, VS Code

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Post by namuorg »

icelancer wrote: post #23

I just run into a bunch of errors on my Windows machine + Chrome when connected over remote-ssh. Extension installed, tab enabled, npx updated/installed, etc. 2025-04-07 10:57:11.606 [info] rmcp: Starting new stdio process with command: npx @browsermcp/mcp@latest 2025-04-07 10:57:11.606 [error] rmcp: Client error for command spawn npx ENOENT 2025-04-07 10:57:11.606 [error] rmcp: Error in MCP: spawn npx ENOENT 2025-04…

Thanks for the report and the update! I'd love to hear about what you changed — how can I get in touch? I didn't see anything in your HN profile. Feel free to email me at admin@browsermcp.io
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