Browser Use
SDK for AI agents to interact with websites via browser automation.
Agent, MCP and tool libraries PyPI MIT Browser automation
How Browser Use is used
Browser Use is a dependency in 8 of the 6,208 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned, too few to describe it from them alone. Our scan also samples projects by dependency (Solana 2,661, Ethereum and EVM 1,496, 3D and games 2,818, agent frameworks and SDKs 10,983); counting those, it appears in 176 projects, and what it is used with below comes from all of them. The most used alternative in our scan is LangChain (126 projects). Projects that use it most often also use python-dotenv (68.8%), Playwright (Python) (64.8%), LangChain (60.2%).
Browser Use popularity over time
Gid Score 54: downloads 68, use in agent projects 59, GitHub stars n/a, downloads trend 45 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with Browser Use
| python-dotenv | 68.8% of Browser Use projects · 7.5× more than average |
|---|---|
| Playwright (Python) | 64.8% of Browser Use projects · 54.3× more than average |
| LangChain | 60.2% of Browser Use projects · 29.7× more than average |
| Pydantic | 56.8% of Browser Use projects · 6.6× more than average |
| OpenAI Python Library | 49.4% of Browser Use projects · 12.5× more than average |
| Requests | 45.5% of Browser Use projects · 6.7× more than average |
| Uvicorn | 44.9% of Browser Use projects · 5.9× more than average |
| FastAPI | 39.8% of Browser Use projects · 5.3× more than average |
From all 176 projects in our scan that use Browser Use, including the dependency samples.
By coding agent
| Cursor | 0.2% of projects set up for it |
|---|---|
| Claude Code | 0.2% of projects set up for it |
Share of public repos configured for each agent that list Browser Use as a dependency.
Agent Skills for Browser Use
| browser-use from davidondrej/skills | Direct browser control via CDP for web interaction: automation, scraping, testing, screenshots, and site/app work.npx skills add davidondrej/skills --skill browser-use |
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| browser-use-to-stagehand from browserbase/skills | Migrate browser-use (Python) browser-automation scripts to Stagehand v3 (TypeScript) on Browserbase. Use when the user wants to convert, port, rewrite, or migr…npx skills add browserbase/skills --skill browser-use-to-stagehand |
Skills teach your coding agent how to use Browser Use well. Official means the pack comes from the same GitHub account as Browser Use. Read a skill before installing it: it can include scripts. All Agent Skills
Install
| Package | pip install browser-use |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Python (172), Next.js (3), .NET (1) |
| Example projects | ANative-Lab/EvoAgentX, ZTE-AICloud/Co-Sight, ustc-ai4science/Science-Star, SPThole/CoexistAI, femto/minion-agent |
Alternatives to Browser Use
Tools that do the same job, so a project picks one or the other. Add-ons and libraries used alongside Browser Use are not listed here; they are in "Often used with".
| Tool | Gid Score | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LangChain pypi Framework for composing applications with LLMs through chains and agents. |
88 | 126 (7.8%) | 37.3M | 148K | MIT |
| LangGraph pypi Framework for building stateful, multi-actor applications with LLMs. |
78 | 76 (4.7%) | 12.5M | 43.6K | MIT |
| Google Agent Development Kit pypi Agent framework from Google for building AI agents. |
64 | 8 (0.5%) | 2.3M | 21.9K | Apache-2.0 |
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