Steel.dev offers an open-source browser API specifically designed for AI agents, enabling them to control fleets of browsers in the cloud. It aims to provide robust browser infrastructure for AI agents, making it easier to run browser automations.

Key Features:

• Open-source browser API for controlling cloud-based browser fleets.
• Sessions API to spin up on-demand browser sessions with a simple API call.
• Auto CAPTCHA solving to maintain automation flow.
• Proxy and Browser Fingerprinting for avoiding bot detection.
• Quick-start with average session start times under 1 second.
• Up to 24-hour long sessions.
• Ability to manage and reuse context by saving and injecting cookies and local storage.
• 1-line change to run Puppeteer, Playwright, or Selenium in the cloud.
• World-class Observability with a Session Viewer for live or recorded session debugging.
• Auto Sign-In for secure access to auth-walled websites and apps.
• Integration with popular stacks like Python, Node.js, Puppeteer, Playwright, and Selenium.

Use Cases:

• Large-scale scrape jobs.
• Fully autonomous web agents.
• AI Agents.
• Foundational Model Training.
• AI Shopping Assistants.
• Web Scraping.
• RPA Software.
• Sales Automation.
• QA Software.
• Customer Service Agents.

Benefits:

• Simplifies running browser automations in the cloud.
• Provides robust infrastructure for AI agents to interact with the web.
• Reduces the complexity of managing browser fleets.
• Offers features to bypass common automation hurdles like CAPTCHAs and bot detection.
• Enables quick session starts and long-running automations.
• Facilitates seamless integration with existing automation tools and programming languages.
• Offers debugging capabilities for automations.
• Allows secure access to authenticated web resources for agents.