awesome! For the Cursor / React / Click to Add 2 example, can we also have it write a unit/e2e regression test?
Show HN: Browser MCP – Automate your browser using Cursor, Claude, VS Code
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Re: Show HN: Browser MCP – Automate your browser using Cursor, Claude, VS Code
#72Crazy, in looking up some info on the web and creating a Spreadsheet on Google Sheets to insert the results, it worked almost perfectly the first time and completely failed subsequently on 8-10 different tries. Is there an issue with the lag between what is happening in the browser and the MCP app (in my case Claude Desktop)? I have a feeling the first time I tried it, I was fast enough clicking the "Allow for this c…
Such a rich UI like google sheets seems like a bad use case for such a general "browser automation" MCP server. Would be cool to see an MCP server like this, but with specific tools that let the LLM read and write to google sheets cells. I'm sure it would knock these tasks out of the park if it had a more specific abstraction instead of generally interacting with a webpage
Re: Show HN: Browser MCP – Automate your browser using Cursor, Claude, VS Code
#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
Yeah this is definitely a bad English bot
Re: Show HN: Browser MCP – Automate your browser using Cursor, Claude, VS Code
#74I literally started working on the same exact idea last night haha. Great work OP. I'm curious, how are you feeding the web data to the LLM? Are you just passing the entire page contents to it and then having it interact with the page based on CSS selectors/xpath? Also, what are your thoughts on letting it do its own scripting to automate certain tasks?
Re: Show HN: Browser MCP – Automate your browser using Cursor, Claude, VS Code
#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
It might depend on the speed with which you click on the elements on the website.
it does, CF bans my own honest to God clicks if I do them too fast.
About five years ago, maybe more, Google started sending me captchas if I ran too many repetitive searches. I could be wrong, but it feel like most large platforms have fairly sophisticated anti-bot/scraping stuff in place.
Re: Show HN: Browser MCP – Automate your browser using Cursor, Claude, VS Code
#76So why do I need an editor(Cusror)? How does a non-coder use it?
If you're a non-coder, use it with Claude Desktop.
Re: Show HN: Browser MCP – Automate your browser using Cursor, Claude, VS Code
#77Re: Show HN: Browser MCP – Automate your browser using Cursor, Claude, VS Code
#78So is MCP the new RPA (Robotics Process Automation)? Like generic yahoo pipes?
I just view it as a relative minor convenience, but it's not some game-changer IMO. The tool use / function calling thing far predates Anthropic releasing the MCP specification and it really wasn't that onerous to do before either. You could provide a json schema spec and tell the model to generate compliant json to pass to the API in question. MCP doesn't inherently solve any of the problems that come up in that sor…
It seems the benefit of MCP is for Anthropic to enlist the community in building integrations for Claude desktop, no?
And if other vendors sign on to support MCP, then it becomes a self reinforcing cycle of adoption.
Re: Show HN: Browser MCP – Automate your browser using Cursor, Claude, VS Code
#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
I am surprised that the VSCode team hasn't gone after them for mirroring the marketplace, as the Visual Studio team made it very clear that they don't want anybody to do that -- it is their marketplace.
It seems that there is one sane PM left at VScode who knows that such move would only lead to MSFT losing more PR. And anti-trust scrutiny?
Why? This seems fine.
Re: Show HN: Browser MCP – Automate your browser using Cursor, Claude, VS Code
#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
I just view it as a relative minor convenience, but it's not some game-changer IMO. The tool use / function calling thing far predates Anthropic releasing the MCP specification and it really wasn't that onerous to do before either. You could provide a json schema spec and tell the model to generate compliant json to pass to the API in question. MCP doesn't inherently solve any of the problems that come up in that sor…
It seems the benefit of MCP is for Anthropic to enlist the community in building integrations for Claude desktop, no? And if other vendors sign on to support MCP, then it becomes a self reinforcing cycle of adoption.
MCP is useful because anthropic has a disproportionate share of API traffic relative to its valuation and a tiny share of first-party client traffic. The best way around this is to shift as much traffic to API as possible.