MCP Web Browser Server
About
An advanced web browsing server for the Model Context Protocol (MCP) powered by Playwright, enabling headless browser interactions through a flexible, secure API.
Details
- License
- MIT
Explore
- Headless Web Browsing: Navigate to any website with SSL certificate validation bypass
- Full Page Content Extraction: Retrieve complete HTML content, including dynamically loaded JavaScript
- Multi-Tab Support: Create, manage, and switch between multiple browser tabs
- Advanced Web Interaction Tools:
- Extract text content
- Click page elements
- Input text into form fields
- Capture screenshots
- Extract page links with filtering capabilities
- Scroll pages in any direction
- Execute JavaScript on pages
- Refresh pages
- Wait for navigation to complete
- Resource Management: Automatic cleanup of unused resources after inactivity
- Enhanced Page Information: Get detailed metadata about the current page
Setting up with Highlight
This MCP is not yet compatible with Highlight’s one-click setup. However, you can still use it with Highlight by following these steps:
- Download and install Highlight from highlightai.com/download
- Navigate to the plugins tab and select "Add Custom Plugin"
-
Configure the plugin with the settings below
Plugin Name
MCP Web Browser ServerCommand (node, npx, python, etc.)Please refer to the README for specific instructions on how to obtain API keys or other required environment variables.
- Enable "Start Automatically" if you want the plugin to start when Highlight launches
From the repository
- Python 3.10+
- MCP SDK
- Playwright
pip install mcp playwright
playwright install
Add to your claude_desktop_config.json:
{
"mcpServers": {
"web-browser": {
"command": "python",
"args": [
"/path/to/your/server.py"
]
}
}
}
python -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate # On Windows use venv\Scripts\activate
pip install -e .[dev]
```
Claude Desktop / Cursor
Paste into your MCP client config file to install this server.
{
"mcpServers": {
"mcp web browser server": {
"mcp-web-browser": {
"command": "python",
"args": [
"-m",
"venv",
"venv"
]
}
}
}
}McpServers
{
"mcp-web-browser": {
"command": "python",
"args": [
"-m",
"venv",
"venv"
]
}
}An advanced web browsing server for the Model Context Protocol (MCP) powered by Playwright, enabling headless browser interactions through a flexible, secure API.
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🌐 Features
- Headless Web Browsing: Navigate to any website with SSL certificate validation bypass
- Full Page Content Extraction: Retrieve complete HTML content, including dynamically loaded JavaScript
- Multi-Tab Support: Create, manage, and switch between multiple browser tabs
- Advanced Web Interaction Tools:
- Extract text content
- Click page elements
- Input text into form fields
- Capture screenshots
- Extract page links with filtering capabilities
- Scroll pages in any direction
- Execute JavaScript on pages
- Refresh pages
- Wait for navigation to complete
- Resource Management: Automatic cleanup of unused resources after inactivity
- Enhanced Page Information: Get detailed metadata about the current page
🚀 Quick Start
Prerequisites
- Python 3.10+
- MCP SDK
- Playwright
Installation
```bash
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