Competitive intelligence
Monitor competitor pricing, product catalogs, and market positioning across hundreds of sites.
Scrape smarter with AI
Browserbase pairs real cloud browsers with AI that understands web pages. Describe what you need, and Stagehand extracts it. No selectors to maintain, no blocks to dodge.
The Problem
Traditional scraping is fragile by design
- Writing CSS selectors that break every time a site updates its layout.
- Building custom parsers for each website you need to scrape.
- Getting blocked by anti-bot systems that detect headless browsers.
- Missing data from JavaScript-rendered pages that static scrapers cannot reach.
- Spending more time maintaining scrapers than building your actual product.
The Solution
How Browserbase and Stagehand change scraping
- Natural language extraction: describe the data you need in plain English. Stagehand finds and returns it as structured JSON.
- Self-healing selectors: when a site changes its layout, AI re-identifies the right elements automatically.
- Built-in stealth: every session runs with anti-detection fingerprinting, residential proxies, and automatic captcha solving.
- Real browser rendering: full Chrome instances execute JavaScript, load SPAs, and handle infinite scroll.
- Parallel at scale: run thousands of AI-powered browser sessions simultaneously in the cloud.
What you can build with an AI web scraper
Lead enrichment
Extract company details, contact information, and firmographic data from business directories.
Content aggregation
Collect articles, reviews, and user-generated content from dynamic, JavaScript-heavy sources.
Research automation
Gather datasets from public records, academic portals, and government databases at scale.
Templates
Templates to get you started
Scrape Amazon products
Web Automation, E-commerce
Extract product data from Amazon search results including names, prices, ratings, and reviews with structured JSON output.
Smart fetch scraper with browser fallback
Web Automation, Fetch API
Scrape webpages using the fastest method available: Fetch API first, full browser session as fallback for JS-rendered pages.
Extract trending keywords from Google Trends
Web Automation
Extract trending search keywords from Google Trends for any country with structured JSON output for SEO and market research.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is an AI web scraper?
An AI web scraper uses large language models to understand web page structure and extract data based on natural language instructions. Instead of writing brittle CSS selectors, you describe the data you want, and the AI identifies and returns it as structured output. Browserbase combines this AI layer (Stagehand) with cloud-hosted real browsers for reliable, scalable scraping.
How is this different from traditional web scraping?
Traditional scrapers rely on hard-coded selectors that break when websites change. AI-powered scraping with Stagehand interprets the page visually and semantically, adapting to layout changes automatically. It also handles JavaScript rendering, captchas, and anti-bot detection out of the box.
What websites can I scrape with Browserbase?
Browserbase runs full Chrome browser sessions, so it can access any website a human can visit. This includes JavaScript-heavy single-page applications, sites behind login walls (using persistent contexts), and pages protected by anti-bot systems. Built-in stealth mode and residential proxies help avoid detection.
Do I need to know how to code?
Browserbase offers multiple entry points. Developers can use the Stagehand SDK in TypeScript or Python to build custom scrapers. For non-technical users, Director provides a no-code interface where you describe your task in plain English and watch the AI execute it in a real browser.
How do you handle anti-bot protection?
Every Browserbase session includes configurable stealth mode that rotates browser fingerprints, manages cookies, and mimics human behavior. Residential proxies route traffic through real IP addresses, and automatic captcha solving handles Cloudflare Turnstile, reCAPTCHA, hCaptcha, and more.
Can I extract data in a specific format?
Yes. With Stagehand, you define a schema (using Zod in TypeScript or JSON Schema in Python) and the AI returns data matching that exact structure. This means you get clean, typed JSON ready for your database or API, with no post-processing needed.