Agent skill

Automating The Browser

by hashgraph-online in hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins

A skill your agent uses when extracting a page needs scripted interaction first — click, type, press a key, scroll, wait, screenshot, or run JS before capturing the DOM.

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Install Automating The Browser

skills CLI
$ npx skills add hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins --skill automating-the-browser -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins automating-the-browser --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/kreuzberg-dev/plugins/plugins/crawlberg/skills/automating-the-browser .claude/skills/automating-the-browser && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
automating-the-browser
GitHub stars
1.3k
Token cost
~1.6k tokens
SKILL.md length
476 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
714
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Apache-2.0

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when extracting a page needs scripted interaction first — click, type, press a key, scroll, wait, screenshot, or run JS before capturing the DOM.

  • Extracting a page needs scripted interaction first — click
  • SKILL.md covers Quick recipe, Flag surface, Action schema and Output, plus 2 more sections
  • Calls jq
  • Run JS before capturing the DOM

What it does

Automating The Browser is an agent skill from hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins. Use when extracting a page needs scripted interaction first — click, type, press a key, scroll, wait, screenshot, or run JS before capturing the DOM. Covers crawlberg interact URL --actions with the real action schema, result shape, limits, and external-CDP options.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.6k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

The repository describes itself as: A curated list of awesome OpenAI Codex / ChatGPT plugins, skills, and resources. The 1 Codex Marketplace. See live plugins at: https://hol.org/plugins/best-codex-plugins. The licence is Apache-2.0.

When your agent uses it

  • Extracting a page needs scripted interaction first — click
  • Run JS before capturing the DOM

Example prompts

  • “/automating-the-browser”

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 9e7b281. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

    • jq

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Automating The Browser loads about 1.6k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 73 tokens; SKILL.md has 476 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~73
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.6k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins at commit 9e7b281, republished under its Apache-2.0 licence (© hashgraph-online). 476 words, ~1,618 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/automating-the-browser/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
automating-the-browser
description
Use when extracting a page needs scripted interaction first — click, type, press a key, scroll, wait, screenshot, or run JS before capturing the DOM. Covers `crawlberg interact URL --actions` with the real action schema, result shape, limits, and external-CDP options.
<!--
AI-RULEZ :: GENERATED FILE — DO NOT EDIT
Content-Hash: blake3:c099a207dd4d659bcbd8000afd8d104f51644c894a2073d064b670ad7e7dee10
Source-Hash: blake3:b5689383a3914da8e3cc6ad3614356ae7f98c90cf99cb1b4b47be38456ff7a7c
Schema-Version: v1
-->

Automating the browser

crawlberg interact <url> --actions '[...]' drives a real headless browser through an ordered list of actions, then captures the resulting page. Reach for it when a static scrape is not enough: the content lives behind a "Load more" button, an infinite scroll, a form submission, or JS that only runs on interaction.

Quick recipe

bash
crawlberg interact https://example.com \
  --actions '[{"type":"click","selector":"#load-more"},
              {"type":"wait","milliseconds":500},
              {"type":"scrape"}]'

Actions run in order. The result wraps the final page state under interaction (see Output below).

Flag surface

FlagDefaultPurpose
--actions—Required. JSON array of action objects (see below).
--formatjsonjson (full result) or markdown (final HTML only).
--timeout30000Per-request timeout in ms.
--browser-modeautoauto, always, never. Interaction needs a browser.
--browser-endpoint—External CDP ws:// or wss:// URL.
--config—Inline JSON or @file.json for the full CrawlConfig.

There is no --respect-robots-txt flag on interact; it targets the one URL you point it at.

Action schema

Each action is a JSON object tagged by type (camelCase). Unknown fields are rejected, so match the shapes exactly:

typeFieldsNotes
clickselectorClick the element matching the CSS selector.
typeselector, textType text into the input matching selector.
presskeyPress a key, e.g. "Enter", "Tab", "Escape".
scrolldirection ("up"/"down"), selector?, amount?Scroll the page, or a scrollable element if selector is set.
waitmilliseconds?, selector?Wait a fixed time, or until selector appears (selector wins).
screenshotfullPage?Capture the viewport, or the full scrollable page if true.
executeJsscriptRun arbitrary JS in the page context. Trusted scripts only.
scrape—Capture the current page HTML into the result.

There is no select action and no wait_for_selector action: to wait for an element, use wait with a selector field. Scroll direction is up or down only.

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Limits (enforced — exceeding them errors)
  • Max 100 actions per call.
  • Single wait: max 300000 ms; total wait across all wait actions: max 300 s.
  • selector max 4096 bytes; text and executeJs script max 1 MB each.
  • scroll amount max 100000 px (absolute).

Output

JSON mode (default)

The result is wrapped under an interaction key. It carries the final page HTML (interaction.final_html) and a per-action record under interaction.action_results[...] — including screenshot data and executeJs return values where applicable.

bash
crawlberg interact https://example.com \
  --actions '[{"type":"type","selector":"#q","text":"rust"},
              {"type":"press","key":"Enter"},
              {"type":"wait","selector":".results"},
              {"type":"scrape"}]' \
  --format json | jq '.interaction.final_html | length'
Markdown mode

Prints interaction.final_html directly — the raw final DOM, not converted Markdown. Use JSON mode and feed final_html to a scrape step when you need clean Markdown.

Patterns

Expand lazy content, then capture
bash
crawlberg interact https://example.com/feed \
  --actions '[{"type":"scroll","direction":"down"},
              {"type":"wait","milliseconds":800},
              {"type":"scroll","direction":"down"},
              {"type":"wait","milliseconds":800},
              {"type":"scrape"}]'
Capture a full-page screenshot after login
bash
crawlberg interact https://app.example.com \
  --actions '[{"type":"type","selector":"#email","text":"me@example.com"},
              {"type":"type","selector":"#password","text":"..."},
              {"type":"click","selector":"button[type=submit]"},
              {"type":"wait","selector":".dashboard"},
              {"type":"screenshot","fullPage":true}]'

Never hardcode credentials — pass them from the environment or a secrets store.

Point at an external Chrome
bash
crawlberg interact https://example.com \
  --browser-endpoint ws://browser.internal:9222/devtools/browser/<id> \
  --actions '[{"type":"click","selector":"#go"},{"type":"scrape"}]'

See the headless-fallback skill for CDP endpoints, wait strategies, and persistent browser profiles set via --config.

When to reach for scrape or crawl instead

If the page yields its content on a plain fetch (or via --browser-mode always) with no clicking or typing, use crawlberg scrape — see scraping-html-to-markdown. Use interact only when ordered actions must run before the content exists.

© hashgraph-online, Apache-2.0. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in plugins/kreuzberg-dev/plugins/plugins/crawlberg/skills/automating-the-browser of hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 9e7b281

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Questions about Automating The Browser

What does Automating The Browser do?

A skill your agent uses when extracting a page needs scripted interaction first — click, type, press a key, scroll, wait, screenshot, or run JS before capturing the DOM. Automating The Browser is an agent skill from hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins. Use when extracting a page needs scripted interaction first — click, type, press a key, scroll, wait, screenshot, or run JS before capturing the DOM.

When should I use Automating The Browser?

Automating The Browser fits situations like: extracting a page needs scripted interaction first — click; run JS before capturing the DOM.

How do I install Automating The Browser in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins --skill automating-the-browser -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/kreuzberg-dev/plugins/plugins/crawlberg/skills/automating-the-browser in hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins) into .claude/skills/automating-the-browser in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Automating The Browser in Codex?

Run `npx skills add hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins --skill automating-the-browser -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/kreuzberg-dev/plugins/plugins/crawlberg/skills/automating-the-browser in hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins) into .agents/skills/automating-the-browser in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Automating The Browser in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins --skill automating-the-browser -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/automating-the-browser, .gemini/skills/automating-the-browser, .github/skills/automating-the-browser and .opencode/skills/automating-the-browser in your project.

What does Automating The Browser need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Automating The Browser needs the command-line tools its instructions call (jq).

Does Automating The Browser access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Automating The Browser safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Automating The Browser use?

Automating The Browser is published under the Apache-2.0 licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Automating The Browser use?

About 1.6k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6.5k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Automating The Browser?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Automating The Browser: Autom Automation (ComposioHQ/awesome-claude-skills, 77k stars), Doppler Marketing Automation Automation (ComposioHQ/awesome-claude-skills, 77k stars), Automate This (github/awesome-copilot, 40k stars) and Firecrawl Interact Integration (firecrawl/firecrawl, 190k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Automating The Browser?

hashgraph-online (a GitHub organization) maintains it in hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins, which has 1,255 GitHub stars. The repository holds 714 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 9, 2026.

Source: hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.