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AI web scraper that reads a page like a person
The web was not built for agents. Browserbase pairs real cloud browsers with AI that understands web pages: describe what you need, and the Stagehand® SDK extracts it. No selectors to maintain, and no per-site tuning. Trusted by 10,000 customers, including Ramp, Microsoft, and Lovable.
The Problem
Traditional scraping is fragile by design
- Writing CSS selectors that break every time a site updates its layout.
- Building custom parsers for each website you need to scrape.
- Getting blocked by anti-bot systems that detect headless browsers.
- Missing data from JavaScript-rendered pages that static scrapers cannot reach.
- Spending more time maintaining scrapers than building your actual product.
The Solution
How Browserbase and the Stagehand SDK change scraping
- Natural language extraction: describe the data you need in plain English. The Stagehand SDK finds and returns it as structured JSON.
- Self-healing selectors: when a site changes its layout, AI re-identifies the right elements automatically.
- Verified: every session reaches pages that turn away ordinary tooling, with residential proxies and managed CAPTCHA solving included.
- Agent Identity: Web Bot Auth signs your agent's requests, so sites can verify it instead of guessing.
- Real browser rendering: full Chrome instances execute JavaScript, load SPAs, and handle infinite scroll.
- Parallel at scale: run thousands of AI-powered browser sessions simultaneously in the cloud.
What you can build with an AI web scraper
Lead enrichment
Extract company details, contact information, and firmographic data from business directories.
Content aggregation
Collect articles, reviews, and user-generated content from dynamic, JavaScript-heavy sources.
Research automation
Gather datasets from public records, academic portals, and government databases at scale.
Templates
Templates to get you started
Scrape e-commerce products
E-commerce
Search multiple e-commerce retailers simultaneously and extract structured product data including prices, descriptions, and availability.
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Smart fetch scraper with browser fallback
Web Automation, Fetch API
Scrape webpages with Fetch first, and a full browser session as fallback for JS-rendered pages.
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Extract trending keywords from Google Trends
Web Automation
Extract trending search keywords from Google Trends for any country with structured JSON output for SEO and market research.
View TemplateFrequently Asked Questions
What is an AI web scraper?
An AI web scraper uses large language models to understand web page structure and extract data based on natural language instructions. Instead of writing brittle CSS selectors, you describe the data you want, and the AI identifies and returns it as structured output. Browserbase combines this AI layer (Stagehand) with cloud-hosted real browsers for reliable, scalable scraping.
How is this different from traditional web scraping?
Traditional scrapers rely on hard-coded selectors that break when websites change. AI-powered scraping with the Stagehand SDK interprets the page visually and semantically, adapting to layout changes automatically. JavaScript rendering, CAPTCHA solving, and Verified access are handled out of the box.
What websites can I scrape with Browserbase?
Browserbase runs full Chrome browser sessions, so it can access any website a human can visit. This includes JavaScript-heavy single-page applications, sites behind login walls (using persistent contexts), and pages that turn away ordinary tooling. Verified access and residential proxies come with the session.
Do I need to know how to code?
Browserbase offers multiple entry points. Developers can use the Stagehand SDK in TypeScript or Python to build custom scrapers. If you would rather not write or deploy any code, Agents is the managed API product: send a prompt and a URL, and it returns the result.
How does my agent reach pages that block ordinary tooling?
Every Browserbase session includes Verified access, which manages fingerprints and cookies so your agent reaches pages that turn away ordinary tooling. Residential proxies route traffic through real IP addresses, and managed CAPTCHA solving covers the common challenge types. Agent Identity is the layer above it: Web Bot Auth signs your agent's requests so sites can verify it instead of guessing, and we work with bot protection providers rather than evading them.
Can I extract data in a specific format?
Yes. With Stagehand, you define a schema (using Zod in TypeScript or JSON Schema in Python) and the AI returns data matching that exact structure. This means you get clean, typed JSON ready for your database or API, with no post-processing needed.