🤖 Browser Automation Agent

A powerful browser automation tool built with MCP (Model Controlled Program) that combines web scraping capabilities with LLM-powered intelligence. This agent can search Google, navigate to webpages, and intelligently scrape content from various websites including GitHub, Stack Overflow, and documentation sites.

🚀 Features

• 🔍 Google Search Integration: Finds and retrieves top search results for any query

• 🕸️ Intelligent Web Scraping: Tailored scraping strategies for different website types:

  • 📂 GitHub repositories

  • 💬 Stack Overflow questions and answers

  • 📚 Documentation pages

  • 🌐 Generic websites

• 🧠 AI-Powered Processing: Uses Mistral AI for understanding and processing scraped content

• 🥷 Stealth Mode: Implements browser fingerprint protection to avoid detection

• 💾 Content Saving: Automatically saves both screenshots and text content from scraped pages

Related MCP server: URL Text Fetcher MCP Server

🏗️ Architecture

This project uses a client-server architecture powered by MCP:

• 🖥️ Server: Handles browser automation and web scraping tasks

• 👤 Client: Provides the AI interface using Mistral AI and LangGraph

• 📡 Communication: Uses stdio for client-server communication

⚙️ Requirements

• 🐍 Python 3.8+

• 🎭 Playwright

• 🧩 MCP (Model Controlled Program)

• 🔑 Mistral AI API key

📥 Installation

1. Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/yourusername/browser-automation-agent.git
cd browser-automation-agent

2. Install dependencies:

pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Install Playwright browsers:

playwright install

4. Create a .env file in the project root and add your Mistral AI API key:

MISTRAL_API_KEY=your_api_key_here

📋 Usage

Running the Server

python main.py

Running the Client

python client.py

Sample Interaction

Once both the server and client are running:

1. Enter your query when prompted

2. The agent will:

   • 🔍 Search Google for relevant results

   • 🧭 Navigate to the top result

   • 📊 Scrape content based on the website type

   • 📸 Save screenshots and content to files

   • 📤 Return processed information

🛠️ Tool Functions

get_top_google_url

🔍 Searches Google and returns the top result URL for a given query.

browse_and_scrape

🌐 Navigates to a URL and scrapes content based on the website type.

scrape_github

📂 Specializes in extracting README content and code blocks from GitHub repositories.

scrape_stackoverflow

💬 Extracts questions, answers, comments, and code blocks from Stack Overflow pages.

scrape_documentation

📚 Optimized for extracting documentation content and code examples.

scrape_generic

🌐 Extracts paragraph text and code blocks from generic websites.

📁 File Structure

browser-automation-agent/
├── main.py            # MCP server implementation
├── client.py          # Mistral AI client implementation
├── requirements.txt   # Project dependencies
├── .env               # Environment variables (API keys)
└── README.md          # Project documentation

📤 Output Files

The agent generates two types of output files with timestamps:

• 📸 final_page_YYYYMMDD_HHMMSS.png: Screenshot of the final page state

• 📄 scraped_content_YYYYMMDD_HHMMSS.txt: Extracted text content from the page

⚙️ Customization

You can modify the following parameters in the code:

• 🖥️ Browser window size: Adjust width and height in browse_and_scrape

• 👻 Headless mode: Set headless=True for invisible browser operation

• 🔢 Number of Google results: Change num_results in get_top_google_url

❓ Troubleshooting

• 🔌 Connection Issues: Ensure both server and client are running in separate terminals

• 🎭 Playwright Errors: Make sure browsers are installed with playwright install

• 🔑 API Key Errors: Verify your Mistral API key is correctly set in the .env file

• 🛣️ Path Errors: Update the path to main.py in client.py if needed

📜 License

MIT License

🤝 Contributing

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

Built with 🧩 MCP, 🎭 Playwright, and 🧠 Mistral AI