automating-the-browser

automating-the-browser is a skill for Claude Code from xberg-io/crawlberg. It costs 63 tokens per session (1,377 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A browser-automation guide for Crawlberg, a web crawler that can click, type, scroll, wait, and run JavaScript before collecting a page.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to script browser actions and capture the resulting page or DOM from interactive websites.
Why use it?
It handles pages where the needed content appears only after an interaction, such as clicking “Load more” or submitting a form.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the crawlberg plugin — 7 skills, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to script browser actions and capture the resulting page or DOM from interactive websites.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/xberg-io/crawlberg/automating-the-browser
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.

Any agent
npx skills add xberg-io/crawlberg --skill automating-the-browser
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/xberg-io/crawlberg

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install crawlberg, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills, 1 MCP server.

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README.md
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Per session 63 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,377 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 5.1 $0.00063 $0.01377
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00688
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00275
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00138

Measured 10d ago against content hash ae1804941aa8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

automating-the-browser scanned grade A with 0 findings 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 10d 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.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

plugin/.ai-rulez/skills/automating-the-browser/SKILL.md · 138 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 138 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Automating the browser

crawlberg interact <url> --actions '[...]' drives a real headless browser through an ordered list of actions, then captures the resulting page. Reach for it when a static scrape is not enough: the content lives behind a "Load more" button, an infinite scroll, a form submission, or JS that only runs on interaction.

Quick recipe

crawlberg interact https://example.com \
  --actions '[{"type":"click","selector":"#load-more"},
              {"type":"wait","milliseconds":500},
              {"type":"scrape"}]'

Actions run in order. The result wraps the final page state under interaction (see Output below).

Flag surface

Flag Default Purpose
--actions Required. JSON array of action objects (see below).
--format json json (full result) or markdown (final HTML only).
--timeout 30000 Per-request timeout in ms.
--browser-mode auto auto, always, never. Interaction needs a browser.
--browser-endpoint External CDP ws:// or wss:// URL.
--config Inline JSON or @file.json for the full CrawlConfig.

There is no --respect-robots-txt flag on interact; it targets the one URL you point it at.

Action schema

Each action is a JSON object tagged by type (camelCase). Unknown fields are rejected, so match the shapes exactly:

type Fields Notes
click selector Click the element matching the CSS selector.
type selector, text Type text into the input matching selector.
press key Press a key, e.g. "Enter", "Tab", "Escape".
scroll direction ("up"/"down"), selector?, amount? Scroll the page, or a scrollable element if selector is set.
wait milliseconds?, selector? Wait a fixed time, or until selector appears (selector wins).
screenshot fullPage? Capture the viewport, or the full scrollable page if true.
executeJs script Run arbitrary JS in the page context. Trusted scripts only.
scrape Capture the current page HTML into the result.

Read the full file on GitHub · 138 lines

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. 10d ago First seen · 138 lines · 63 tokens per session scan A ae1804941aa8

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automating-the-browser is a skill published in the GitHub repository xberg-io/crawlberg (169 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 63 tokens to every session and 1,377 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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