browser-fetch

browser-fetch is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from huangyrcn/web-kit. It costs 152 tokens per session (1,574 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A browser-based tool for reading web pages or downloading files through a real Chrome browser. It can handle pages that need JavaScript to display their content and can reuse an existing browser login session.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to read rendered articles and documentation, inspect web apps, download files, or access pages using the browser’s existing cookies.
Why use it?
It helps retrieve content that a basic web request may miss, such as interactive pages or pages behind common anti-automation checks. It also separates reading a page from saving a PDF, archive, image, or other file.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the web-kit plugin — 2 skills shipped together

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/huangyrcn/web-kit/browser-fetch
Any agent
npx skills add huangyrcn/web-kit --skill browser-fetch
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/huangyrcn/web-kit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install web-kit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for browser-fetch

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/huangyrcn/web-kit/browser-fetch.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/huangyrcn/web-kit/browser-fetch)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/huangyrcn/web-kit/browser-fetch"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/huangyrcn/web-kit/browser-fetch.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 152 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,574 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00152 $0.01574
Opus 5 $0.00076 $0.00787
Sonnet 5 $0.00030 $0.00315
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00157

Measured 4d ago against content hash 848a6e98f6ec, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

browser-fetch scanned grade A with 1 finding against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 4d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

## When to use browser-fetch vs curl/wget
skills/browser-fetch/SKILL.md · 162 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 162 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

browser-fetch

Fetch web content via a real Chrome browser connected over CDP. Executes JS, bypasses anti-scraping, and reuses login cookies from the shared browser profile. Two subcommands cover the two things an agent typically wants from a URL: read its content (page) or save it as a file (file).

page vs file — which to use

You want… Use Output
Read an article, doc page, or SPA's rendered content page markdown (or json)
Save a PDF, zip, image, or other binary as a file file raw file on disk
"What does this PDF say?" (extract text) page markdown
"Download this PDF" (save the file) file raw .pdf

Rule of thumb: want the content → page; want the file → file.

How to invoke

Always use uv run --script — the script files may lack execute permission after deployment.

page — render URL to markdown

# Save to file (recommended)
uv run --script ${SKILL_DIR}/scripts/page -O out.md "https://example.com"

# Output to stdout
uv run --script ${SKILL_DIR}/scripts/page -o md "https://example.com"

# Focused body content (less navigation/footer noise)
uv run --script ${SKILL_DIR}/scripts/page -o md-fit -O out.md "https://example.com"

# JSON (url, title, markdown, links)
uv run --script ${SKILL_DIR}/scripts/page -o json "https://example.com"

# Deep crawl (follow links)
uv run --script ${SKILL_DIR}/scripts/page --deep-crawl bfs --max-depth 20 -O out.md "https://..."

# Bypass cache
uv run --script ${SKILL_DIR}/scripts/page -bc -O out.md "https://example.com"

file — download URL to a raw file

uv run --script ${SKILL_DIR}/scripts/file <url> [output_file]
uv run --script ${SKILL_DIR}/scripts/file <url> output.pdf
uv run --script ${SKILL_DIR}/scripts/file <url> output.pdf --interactive

page — output formats

Format Flag Content
md -o md Full page markdown (default)
md-fit -o md-fit Focused body content, less navigation noise
json -o json JSON with url, title, markdown, links
all -o all Full JSON dump

Read the full file on GitHub · 162 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 4d ago First seen · 162 lines · 152 tokens per session scan A 848a6e98f6ec

Subscribe to this mod's changes

browser-fetch is a skill published in the GitHub repository huangyrcn/web-kit (5 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 152 tokens to every session and 1,574 once invoked, about $0.0008 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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