What is the best MCP servers and plugin for browser automation?

By tashan's measured score: Chrome DevTools, Trusty Squire, Superpowers Chrome, Playwright, Browser Harness. the score combines upkeep and freshness, gated by real adoption — every input is public and linked to its source.

Who does browser automation as part of their job?

This is work our corpus shows people doing that O*NET does not yet have a process step for — agentic tooling post-dates its software survey.

How is the ranking calculated?

From public signal only: npm download volume and publish cadence, GitHub push/release recency, contributor count, registry status, and how often a capability appears in real public agent configs. Nobody can pay to change a score, rank, or listing.

The Index · Browser automation

Browser automation

'Driving the browser' — Playwright, CDP, headless runs. tashan measures 162 capabilities for this work. Ranked on upkeep, freshness and real adoption, every input public. How we measure ›

#	Capability	tashan	Evidence	Health
1	Chrome DevTools primary npm ✓ Google deep	92	3.3m/wk	active
2	Trusty Squire primary npm deep	76	3k/wk	active
3	Superpowers Chrome primary plugin deep	58	335 ★	active
4	Playwright primary npm ✓ Microsoft solid	85	4.6m/wk	active
5	Browser Harness primary plugin solid	76	16k ★	active
6	Chrome DevTools Axi primary npm solid	70	4k/wk	active
7	Subtext primary plugin solid	59	64 ★	active
8	Tap primary npm solid	56	282/wk	active
9	Browser Use primary plugin solid	48	7 ★	active
10	Jobpilot primary plugin solid	45	38 ★	active
11	Patchright MCP Jalikey primary npm solid	44	37/wk	active
12	Realbrowser primary plugin solid	43	57 ★	active
13	Vibesurfer primary plugin solid	42	15 ★	active
14	Ever Browser primary plugin solid	40	6 ★	active
15	Socials primary plugin solid	39	22 ★	active
16	Hyperbrowser primary npm solid	38	4k/wk	abandoned
17	Playwright Pro primary plugin	75	23k ★	active
18	Shiplight primary npm	65	2k/wk	active
19	Chrome Bridge primary npm	49	104/wk	active
20	Agentiqa primary plugin	43	1 ★	active
21	Foxcode primary plugin	40	0 ★	active
22	Firefox DevTools · mozilla primary plugin	40	1 marketplaces	active
23	Claude Mac Chrome primary plugin	39	1 ★	active
·	Puppeteer primary npm ✓ Anthropic deprecated	not scored yet	28k/wk	abandoned
25	Actionbook primary plugin thin	70	2k ★	active
26	Tinyfish primary plugin thin	55	14 ★	active
27	Cypress primary plugin thin	54	37 ★	active
28	Browser Act primary plugin thin	46	21 ★	active
29	Accessibility Scanner supporting npm deep	71	3k/wk	active
30	Desktop Touch supporting npm deep	68	1k/wk	active
31	Safari supporting npm deep	65	965/wk	active
32	Camoufox supporting npm deep	62	707/wk	active
33	Machine Bridge supporting npm deep	59	794/wk	active
34	Pagebolt supporting npm deep	58	349/wk	active
35	Crawlio Browser supporting npm deep	57	234/wk	active
36	Getcourse supporting npm deep	55	438/wk	active
37	Sidebutton · sidebutton supporting npm deep	54	174/wk	active
38	Safari DevTools supporting npm deep	43	125/wk	active
39	Playwright · executeautomation supporting npm solid	72	11k/wk	stable
40	Vibium supporting npm solid	67	2k/wk	active
41	Stock SDK supporting npm solid	67	2k/wk	active
42	Cloakbrowser supporting npm solid	62	599/wk	active
43	Camofox Browser supporting npm solid	61	560/wk	active
44	Cbrowser supporting npm solid	59	265/wk	active
45	Mcpbrowser supporting npm solid	58	407/wk	active
46	Kapture supporting npm solid	56	918/wk	active
47	Truepane supporting npm solid	56	375/wk	active
48	Supersurf supporting npm solid	56	177/wk	active
49	Screenshots supporting npm solid	54	448/wk	active
50	Camoufox · whit3rabbit supporting npm solid	54	184/wk	active
51	Traceon CLI supporting npm solid	53	338/wk	active
52	Reflex supporting npm solid	53	171/wk	active
53	Open Compute supporting npm solid	52	111/wk	active
54	Ainative Browser supporting npm solid	51	219/wk	active
55	Alterlab supporting npm solid	48	130/wk	active
56	Storeshots supporting npm solid	48	112/wk	active
57	Veilbrowser supporting npm solid	48	78/wk	active
58	Five46 supporting npm solid	48	77/wk	active
59	Openchrome supporting npm solid	47	114/wk	active
60	Selenium AI Agent supporting npm solid	47	78/wk	active
61	Umbriel supporting npm solid	45	94/wk	active
62	Browserbash supporting npm solid	45	82/wk	active
63	Vibe Test — Browser Testing Agent supporting npm solid	44	153/wk	active
64	Puppeteer MCP Claude supporting npm solid	43	240/wk	active
65	Opencut Controller supporting npm solid	43	51/wk	active
66	Winctl supporting npm solid	43	31/wk	active
67	Gecko · Frumane supporting npm solid	42	67/wk	active
68	Grabzit supporting npm solid	42	51/wk	active
69	Air SDK supporting npm solid	40	139/wk	active
70	Can See supporting npm solid	40	87/wk	active
71	Screenshotink supporting npm solid	39	52/wk	active
72	Pbi Webview2 supporting npm solid	39	23/wk	active
73	Agent Device supporting npm	77	129k/wk	active
74	Firefox DevTools supporting npm	74	4k/wk	active
75	Firefox DevTools MCP Moz supporting npm	72	919/wk	active
76	Openapi supporting npm	71	422/wk	active
77	Browser Tools supporting npm	68	3k/wk	active
78	Self Healing supporting npm	68	704/wk	active
79	Browser Gateway supporting npm	67	799/wk	active
80	Browse Tool supporting npm	67	716/wk	active
81	Cicy Desktop supporting npm	66	469/wk	active
82	Openowl supporting npm	65	2k/wk	active
83	Bytekit supporting npm	65	407/wk	active
84	Dsh Verify supporting npm	64	394/wk	active
85	Smolanalytics supporting npm	63	313/wk	active
86	Plonk supporting npm	62	777/wk	active
87	Real Browser supporting npm	62	716/wk	active
88	Ottersnap supporting npm	62	559/wk	active
89	Jshook supporting npm	60	704/wk	active
90	Testers supporting npm	60	301/wk	active
91	Session Bridge supporting npm	59	659/wk	active
92	Kahin supporting npm	59	469/wk	active
93	Charlotte supporting npm	58	437/wk	active
94	Gameface DevTools supporting npm	58	351/wk	active
95	QA Use supporting npm	57	1k/wk	active
96	Ghostlight supporting npm	57	538/wk	active
97	Bezelbub supporting npm	57	255/wk	active
98	Hiai Opencode supporting npm	57	237/wk	active
99	FireKey supporting npm	57	188/wk	active
100	Xactions supporting npm	56	360/wk	active
101	Macos supporting npm	55	285/wk	active
102	Site Shot supporting npm	55	264/wk	active
103	Screenshot Website Fast supporting npm	55	188/wk	active
104	Browser Agent supporting npm	55	186/wk	active
105	Rasterly supporting npm	54	263/wk	active
106	Markuprplus supporting npm	54	207/wk	active
107	Playwright Report supporting npm	54	130/wk	active
108	QualityMax QA supporting npm	54	104/wk	active
109	Lan Direct supporting npm	53	402/wk	active
110	Uindow supporting npm	53	203/wk	active
111	Opentabs Dev supporting npm	53	137/wk	active
112	Nexus MCP Agent supporting npm	53	106/wk	active
113	Perplexity User supporting npm	52	238/wk	active
114	Universal Screenshot supporting npm	52	108/wk	active
115	Solarisdk supporting npm	51	112/wk	active
116	Chrome supporting npm	51	40/wk	active
117	Se CLI supporting npm	50	59/wk	active
118	Playwright Stealth supporting npm	49	446/wk	active
119	Hover Dev supporting npm	49	89/wk	active
120	Substrate Browser supporting npm	49	61/wk	active
121	Letsrunit supporting npm	48	96/wk	active
122	Puppeteer Real Browser supporting npm	48	82/wk	active
123	Codex Browser Bridge supporting npm	48	37/wk	active
124	Toolforte supporting npm	48	35/wk	active
125	Arc Control (macOS) supporting npm	47	48/wk	active
126	Usedomshot supporting npm	47	38/wk	active
127	Native DevTools supporting npm	46	197/wk	active
128	Brawsr supporting npm	46	72/wk	active
129	Auth Fetch supporting npm	46	64/wk	active
130	Create Plugin · opentabs-dev supporting npm	46	31/wk	active
131	Selenium · gaforov supporting npm	45	86/wk	active
132	Fsb supporting npm	45	49/wk	active
133	Offstage supporting plugin	44	2 ★	active
134	Geekflare supporting npm	44	43/wk	active
135	Personae supporting npm	44	23/wk	active
136	Mobitru supporting npm	43	134/wk	active
137	Claw Mux supporting plugin	42	1 marketplaces	—
138	Firefox DevTools · padenot supporting npm	42	453/wk	active
139	Shotly supporting npm	42	35/wk	active
140	Bryg supporting npm	42	25/wk	active
141	Raveneye supporting npm	42	12/wk	active
142	Notte CLI supporting plugin	41	1 marketplaces	active
143	Notte Sdks supporting plugin	41	1 marketplaces	active
144	Fetcher supporting npm	41	4k/wk	abandoned
145	Playwright · Ashish-Bansal supporting npm	40	6k/wk	abandoned
146	Browserjack supporting npm	40	22/wk	active
147	Web supporting npm	40	21/wk	active
148	Ecobrowser supporting npm	40	20/wk	active
149	Browse supporting npm	39	37/wk	active
150	Zen DevTools supporting npm	39	27/wk	active
151	Canary Lab supporting npm	39	20/wk	active
152	Pagecast supporting npm	38	425/wk	active
153	Appcontext supporting npm	38	40/wk	active
154	Mbadkins Puppeteer Plus Martech supporting npm	36	70/wk	active
155	Rolepod Uiproof supporting plugin	35	2 ★	active
156	Jakeliume Webpeel supporting npm	35	46/wk	active
·	Vew supporting npm deprecated	not scored yet	157/wk	abandoned
·	Cdp Tools supporting npm deprecated	not scored yet	188/wk	abandoned
·	Looking Glass supporting npm deprecated	not scored yet	90/wk	abandoned
160	Uplink supporting npm thin	53	132/wk	active
161	Peek supporting npm thin	50	127/wk	active
162	Pagewatch supporting npm thin	40	35/wk	active

Who does this work

O*NET has no process step for this yet — its software occupations were surveyed before agentic tooling existed. We list it because the corpus plainly shows people doing it, and we say so rather than forcing it onto an unrelated step.

Recently changed in Browser automation

199 changes recorded here in the last 45 days, newest and most serious first.

2026-08-05 Shiplight — shiplight now reaches browser, credentials, filesystem, network
2026-08-05 Puppeteer — @modelcontextprotocol/server-puppeteer was marked deprecated on npm
2026-08-05 Looking Glass — looking-glass-mcp was marked deprecated on npm
2026-08-10 Playwright — @playwright/mcp now reaches browser

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