MCP Web Browser Server

An advanced web browsing server for the Model Context Protocol (MCP) powered by Playwright, enabling headless browser interactions through a flexible, secure API.

🌐 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

# Install MCP and Playwright
pip install mcp playwright

# Install browser dependencies
playwright install

Configuration for Claude Desktop

Add to your claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "web-browser": {
      "command": "python",
      "args": [
        "/path/to/your/server.py"
      ]
    }
  }
}

💡 Usage Examples

Basic Web Navigation

# Browse to a website
page_content = browse_to("https://example.com")

# Extract page text
text_content = extract_text_content()

# Extract text from a specific element
title_text = extract_text_content("h1.title")

Web Interaction

# Navigate to a page
browse_to("https://example.com/login")

# Input text into a form
input_text("#username", "your_username")
input_text("#password", "your_password")

# Click a login button
click_element("#login-button")

Screenshot Capture

# Capture full page screenshot
full_page_screenshot = get_page_screenshots(full_page=True)

# Capture specific element screenshot
element_screenshot = get_page_screenshots(selector="#main-content")

Link Extraction

# Get all links on the page
page_links = get_page_links()

# Get links matching a pattern
filtered_links = get_page_links(filter_pattern="contact")

Multi-Tab Browsing

# Create a new tab
tab_id = create_new_tab("https://example.com")

# Create another tab
another_tab_id = create_new_tab("https://example.org")

# List all open tabs
tabs = list_tabs()

# Switch between tabs
switch_tab(tab_id)

# Close a tab
close_tab(another_tab_id)

Advanced Interactions

# Scroll the page
scroll_page(direction="down", amount="page")

# Execute JavaScript on the page