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Browser Use lets an AI open websites, click, type and fill in forms for you. The code is free and open source. You bring the AI.
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Browser Use
Browser Use is a free, open source tool that lets an AI use a web browser like a person: open a page, click, type, fill in a form and bring back what it found. You tell it the job in plain English, and Claude Code does the rest.
What you need. A computer with Claude Code (or Codex or Cursor) and Chrome. Setup happens in the terminal. The prompt below does it for you.
Install or upgrade browser-use to the latest stable version with uv using Python 3.12, run `browser-use skill install` to register the skill, and connect it to my browser. If setup or connection fails, follow https://github.com/browser-use/browser-harness/blob/main/install.md. Before you start, tell me in one line what you will install. If uv is missing, ask me before you install it. When it works, test it with a harmless job: open https://github.com/browser-use/browser-use and tell me its star count. From now on, never log in, buy, send or submit anything in my browser without asking me first.
What Browser Use does, and what it does not
It does not
- Come with free AI. The code is free, the thinking is not (in Claude Code your plan covers it)
- Get past every CAPTCHA or "are you a robot" check
- Need your passwords typed into the chat
It does
- Open websites, click, scroll and type
- Fill in forms
- Pull information off pages and hand it back to you
- Work from Claude Code, so you just type the job
✦ Set it up
Set it up in 3 steps
Type the job. The AI does the clicking.
Who it's for
People already using Claude Code (or Codex or Cursor) who want their AI to do web chores: look things up across sites, fill in forms, copy details from one site to another.
What you need
- Claude Code, Codex or Cursor on a Mac, Windows or Linux computer.
- Google Chrome, for it to drive.
- uv, a free installer for Python tools. Claude Code can install it for you.
- No extra AI key when you use it from Claude Code. Your Claude plan does the thinking.
The steps by hand
- Install uv, a free installer for Python tools, from docs.astral.sh/uv. Close and reopen your terminal.
- In your terminal, run: uv tool install --python 3.12 browser-use, then: browser-use skill install
- Open Chrome. If it asks to allow remote debugging, say yes. Restart Claude Code and give it a small job, like: "Use browser-use to open github.com/browser-use/browser-use and tell me its star count."
A first job to try
Use browser-use. Open [a website you use every week], find [the information you need], and give me the answer as a short list. Do not log in, buy, send or submit anything without asking me first.
How I'd use it
- Start with jobs where nothing can go wrong: looking things up across a few sites and making a list.
- Then try boring copy jobs, like moving details from one website into a form on another, while you watch.
- Never let it pay, send or submit anything without you checking first.
Honest limits, costs and licence
- The code is free (MIT). The AI that drives it is not: from Claude Code it uses your Claude plan, and in your own Python code it needs an AI key that charges per use. A free local model through Ollama also works, if your computer can run one.
- Browser Use Cloud is the paid version: cloud browsers that sites block less often, from $0.02 per browser hour. New sign-ups with Google, GitHub or Microsoft get $15 of credit. You do not need it to start.
- The driving test demo on their page gets past a CAPTCHA. On your own computer, CAPTCHAs and bot checks can stop it.
- Connected to your Chrome, it can see your open tabs and act as you, logged in as you. Watch it, and give it low-risk jobs first.
Links
Why I share it
I don't make Browser Use and nobody pays me to share it. It's a free tool I think is worth ten minutes of your time. Try it this week and tell me what you used it for first.
✦ Get unstuck
Stuck? Find your line.
It says uv: command not found
Ask Claude Code to install uv from docs.astral.sh/uv, then close and reopen your terminal and paste the prompt again.
Claude Code does not use it
Restart Claude Code so it loads the new skill, then start your request with "Use browser-use".
It can not connect to my Chrome
Run browser-use --doctor in your terminal. In Chrome, open chrome://inspect/#remote-debugging and tick "Allow remote debugging for this browser instance". Still stuck? Paste the fix-it guide link (in Links above) into Claude Code and ask it to follow it.
It got stuck on a CAPTCHA
Normal on some sites. Do that step yourself, or pick a site with less bot protection. The paid cloud is built for this, but nothing gets past every check.
Is there a catch?
The code is free and open source (MIT), made by Browser Use. The AI that does the thinking is not free: in Claude Code it runs on your Claude plan. Connected to your Chrome, it acts as you, logged in as you, so watch it and start with low-risk jobs.
My screen looks different from the steps
Apps change their screens. Use the official links above, which the people who make Browser Use keep up to date.
None of these fixed it
Email joe@mastermindshq.business. Say which step you were on and paste what you saw.
✦ What next · paid · optional
Want the next step? Get Found on Google and ChatGPT.
You came for one piece of my Claude Code setup. If you have your own website, the next useful job for that setup is getting the site found.
Get your website listed on Google and Bing so people (and ChatGPT) can find you by your name and your service. ChatGPT finds websites mostly through Bing, so we tell Bing about you too. Your own Claude Code does the work on your computer, one prompt at a time.
- What it does: sets up Google and Bing, your Google Business Profile, posts that answer real customer questions, and a monthly check.
- What usually happens: your site shows up when people search your name or business name within a few weeks.
- What it cannot promise: ranking for competitive searches like "best X near me". That takes months of steady posts.
- You need a website in a folder Claude Code can open, Node.js 20 or newer, and a free Google account. It is not for Squarespace or Wix sites.
Not for you? Close this page. Everything above stays free.
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