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
• Advanced Web Interaction Tools:
  • Extract text content
  • Click page elements
  • Input text into form fields
  • Capture screenshots
  • Extract page links

🚀 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()

🛡️ Security Features

• SSL certificate validation bypass
• Secure browser context management
• Error handling and logging
• Configurable timeout settings

🔧 Troubleshooting

Common Issues

• SSL Certificate Errors: Automatically bypassed
• Slow Page Load: Adjust timeout in browse_to() method
• Element Not Found: Verify selectors carefully

Logging

All significant events are logged to stderr for easy debugging.

📋 Tool Parameters

browse_to(url: str, context: Optional[Any] = None)

• url: Website to navigate to
• context: Optional context object (currently unused)

extract_text_content(selector: Optional[str] = None, context: Optional[Any] = None)

• selector: Optional CSS selector to extract specific content
• context: Optional context object (currently unused)

click_element(selector: str, context: Optional[Any] = None)

• selector: CSS selector of the element to click
• context: Optional context object (currently unused)

get_page_screenshots(full_page: bool = False, selector: Optional[str] = None, context: Optional[Any] = None)

• full_page: Capture entire page screenshot
• selector: Optional element to screenshot
• context: Optional context object (currently unused)

get_page_links(context: Optional[Any] = None)

• context: Optional context object (currently unused)

input_text(selector: str, text: str, context: Optional[Any] = None)

• selector: CSS selector of input element
• text: Text to input
• context: Optional context object (currently unused)

🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.

Development Setup

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/random-robbie/mcp-web-browser.git

# Create virtual environment
python -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate  # On Windows use `venv\Scripts\activate`

# Install dependencies
pip install -e .[dev]

📄 License

MIT License

🔗 Related Projects

• Model Context Protocol
• Playwright
• Claude Desktop

💬 Support

For issues and questions, please open an issue on GitHub.