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steel-dev/steel-browser

steel-browser steel-dev/steel-browser is an Apache-2.0 open-source batteries-included browser API and sandbox for AI agents and apps, exposes a REST API plus a Swagger UI (`http://0.0.0.0:3000/documentation`) for sessions, scraping, screenshots, and content extraction, ships a pre-built Docker image (`docker run -p 3000:3000 -p 9223:9223 ghcr.io/steel-dev/steel-browser`), one-click deploys to Rail

Score7.9
Popularity7207.0
Risklow
TierGold
Score breakdown
Usefulness8.3
Novelty10.0
Momentum10.0
Maturity8.7
Open-source/build7.4
Evidence7.2
Workflow potential9.0
Setup ease6.5

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Why it matters

Useful for AI agent developers, browser-automation engineers, and RAG data-pipeline builders who want a self-hostable, batteries-included browser sandbox for live web agents and automated scraping instead of hand-rolling Playwright + proxy-rotation + browser-pool glue, because steel-dev/steel-browser ships an Apache-2.0 open-source browser API and sandbox with a REST API plus Swagger UI, a pre-bui

Who should use it

BuildersPower users

Who should skip it

Skip if the source link, docs, or setup requirements do not match your workflow.

Risk explanation

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