Puppeteer▌

by anthropic
Puppeteer is a browser automation studio server for LLMs, enabling web page interaction, screenshots, and testing with S
A Model Context Protocol server that provides browser automation capabilities using Puppeteer. This server enables LLMs to interact with web pages, take screenshots, and execute JavaScript in a real browser environment.
github stars
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best for
- / Web scraping and data extraction
- / Automated testing of web applications
- / Generating website screenshots
- / Form automation and submission
capabilities
- / Navigate to any webpage
- / Take screenshots of pages or specific elements
- / Click buttons and interact with page elements
- / Fill out forms and input fields
- / Execute custom JavaScript in the browser
- / Hover over elements and handle dropdowns
what it does
Automates web browsers through Puppeteer, letting you navigate pages, take screenshots, click elements, and execute JavaScript. Provides programmatic control over a real browser environment.
about
Puppeteer is an official MCP server published by anthropic that provides AI assistants with tools and capabilities via the Model Context Protocol. Puppeteer is a browser automation studio server for LLMs, enabling web page interaction, screenshots, and testing with S It is categorized under browser automation. This server exposes 7 tools that AI clients can invoke during conversations and coding sessions.
how to install
You can install Puppeteer in your AI client of choice. Use the install panel on this page to get one-click setup for Cursor, Claude Desktop, VS Code, and other MCP-compatible clients. This server runs locally on your machine via the stdio transport.
license
MIT
Puppeteer is released under the MIT license. This is a permissive open-source license, meaning you can freely use, modify, and distribute the software.
FAQ
- What is the Puppeteer MCP server?
- Puppeteer is a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server profile on explainx.ai. MCP lets AI hosts (e.g. Claude Desktop, Cursor) call tools and resources through a standard interface; this page summarizes categories, install hints, and community ratings.
- How do MCP servers relate to agent skills?
- Skills are reusable instruction packages (often SKILL.md); MCP servers expose live capabilities. Teams frequently combine both—skills for workflows, MCP for APIs and data. See explainx.ai/skills and explainx.ai/mcp-servers for parallel directories.
- How are reviews shown for Puppeteer?
- This profile displays 74 aggregated ratings (sample rows for discoverability plus signed-in user reviews). Average score is about 4.4 out of 5—verify behavior in your own environment before production use.
Discussion
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Ratings
4.4★★★★★74 reviews- ★★★★★Nikhil Srinivasan· Dec 28, 2024
Puppeteer reduced integration guesswork — categories and install configs on the listing matched the upstream repo.
- ★★★★★Daniel Anderson· Dec 12, 2024
We wired Puppeteer into a staging workspace; the listing’s GitHub and npm pointers saved time versus hunting across READMEs.
- ★★★★★Sofia Reddy· Dec 12, 2024
We wired Puppeteer into a staging workspace; the listing’s GitHub and npm pointers saved time versus hunting across READMEs.
- ★★★★★Nikhil Gupta· Dec 8, 2024
Strong directory entry: Puppeteer surfaces stars and publisher context so we could sanity-check maintenance before adopting.
- ★★★★★Pratham Ware· Dec 4, 2024
Puppeteer has been reliable for tool-calling workflows; the MCP profile page is a good permalink for internal docs.
- ★★★★★James Desai· Nov 27, 2024
We wired Puppeteer into a staging workspace; the listing’s GitHub and npm pointers saved time versus hunting across READMEs.
- ★★★★★Ishan Martinez· Nov 19, 2024
Useful MCP listing: Puppeteer is the kind of server we cite when onboarding engineers to host + tool permissions.
- ★★★★★Kaira Farah· Nov 3, 2024
Strong directory entry: Puppeteer surfaces stars and publisher context so we could sanity-check maintenance before adopting.
- ★★★★★Kiara Gill· Nov 3, 2024
Strong directory entry: Puppeteer surfaces stars and publisher context so we could sanity-check maintenance before adopting.
- ★★★★★Daniel Mehta· Oct 22, 2024
Useful MCP listing: Puppeteer is the kind of server we cite when onboarding engineers to host + tool permissions.
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