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Show HN: Hyperbrowser – Scalable Browser Infrastructure for AI Apps

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Post by ashekhawat »

Hey HN!

Excited to share a project we've been working on called Hyperbrowser. It’s a tool that makes scaling headless browsers ridiculously easy. It allows you to spin up hundreds of browser sessions in secure, isolated environments, with sub-second launch times. We automatically solve captchas, use residential proxies and manage concurrent sessions so that you can focus on your own business.

The idea for Hyperbrowser came from our own struggles building AI apps and agents like sales tools, automations, and AI editors. Every project seemed to hit the same roadblock: interacting with the web. Whether we needed web data as input or web browsing as output, we faced constant challenges—getting blocked, setting up proxy services, solving captchas, and scaling everything in Kubernetes.

On top of that, we had to build custom functions and services to convert websites into LLM-friendly markdown and crawl entire sites for relevant data. Keeping all of this running became a full-time job!

To make this easy for everyone else we built Hyperbrowser. It packages everything we learned and built, with a nice frontend that gets rid of the boilerplate and lets you hit the ground running. Hyperbrowser works seamlessly with tools you already know, like Puppeteer, Playwright, or Selenium, while removing the hassle of infrastructure and scaling.

If this sounds interesting, we’d love for you to give it a spin! You can sign up and start playing around with a free plan. Would love to hear your thoughts, feedback, or ideas! Check it out here at hyperbrowser.ai.

If you have any questions at all feel free to reach out to me at akshay@hyperbrowser.ai! Ideally share the website you'd like to scrape or automate. I can provide a script for it or we can create a custom API endpoint!

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#4

Post by skilbjo »

Sweet! trying this out now.

one quick nit on your docs: https://docs.hyperbrowser.ai/guides/scrape-site

```

import Hyperbrowser from "@hyperbrowser/sdk";

const client = new Hyperbrowser({ apiKey: process.env.HYPERBROWSER_API_KEY, });

(async () => {

  const job = await client.startScrapeJob({ url: "https://example.com" });

  console.log(job);

  const job = await client.getScrapeJob(job.jobId);

  console.log(job);
})(); ```

should be:

```

import Hyperbrowser from "@hyperbrowser/sdk";

const client = new Hyperbrowser({ apiKey: process.env.HYPERBROWSER_API_KEY, });

(async () => {

  let job = await client.startScrapeJob({ url: "https://example.com" }); // s/const/let

  console.log(job);

  job = await client.getScrapeJob(job.jobId); // remove const

  console.log(job);
})();

```

Re: Show HN: Hyperbrowser – Scalable Browser Infrastructure for AI Apps

#5

Post by shrisukhani »

skilbjo wrote: post #4

Sweet! trying this out now. one quick nit on your docs: https://docs.hyperbrowser.ai/guides/scrape-site ``` import Hyperbrowser from "@hyperbrowser/sdk"; const client = new Hyperbrowser({ apiKey: process.env.HYPERBROWSER_API_KEY, }); (async () => { const job = await client.startScrapeJob({ url: "https://example.com" }); console.log(job); const job = await client.getScrapeJob(job.jobId); console.log(job); })(); ``` sh…

thanks! fixing now

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Post by shrisukhani »

shrisukhani wrote: post #5
skilbjo wrote: post #4

Sweet! trying this out now. one quick nit on your docs: https://docs.hyperbrowser.ai/guides/scrape-site ``` import Hyperbrowser from "@hyperbrowser/sdk"; const client = new Hyperbrowser({ apiKey: process.env.HYPERBROWSER_API_KEY, }); (async () => { const job = await client.startScrapeJob({ url: "https://example.com" }); console.log(job); const job = await client.getScrapeJob(job.jobId); console.log(job); })(); ``` sh…

thanks! fixing now

update: fixed now :)

Re: Show HN: Hyperbrowser – Scalable Browser Infrastructure for AI Apps

#9

Post by ashekhawat »

dbmikus wrote: post #7

Just did a pricing check, and you give twice as much concurrency/browsing/data-transfer as Browserbase. Nice! Do you have any restrictions on sites we can scrape? I am likely going to do some public LinkedIn scraping (logged out, legally compliant).

Hey! So we have to use a different proxy service for some sites (LinkedIn included). Just ask in the app support and we can do that. We are also making custom endpoints for LinkedIn as well that should be ready soon, Ill shoot you an email once we have that!

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#10

Post by ashekhawat »

ATechGuy wrote: post #8

Congrats on launching! > spin up hundreds of browser sessions in secure, isolated environments, with sub-second launch times What tech do you use for this, and where is this hosted?

Just docker containers in GCP and AWS. We do all the instance management ourselves. It seems like you are working on infra for this from your bio! Send me an email would love to chat :)
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