browser-use

What This Skill Does

The browser-use skill is an advanced automation engine for OpenClaw designed to handle complex, multi-step web navigation tasks that exceed the capabilities of standard, lightweight browser tools. By leveraging the industry-standard browser-use framework and Playwright, this skill acts as a powerful agentic browser. It can navigate modern, heavy web applications, bypass anti-bot protections, and perform long-running, multi-page workflows such as logging into secure portals, filling out complex multi-stage forms, or performing data extraction across authenticated sessions. It functions either as a standalone headless browser or by connecting to your local Chrome instance via CDP, ensuring you retain access to your existing cookies and saved login states.

Installation

To integrate this skill into your OpenClaw environment, execute the following command in your terminal: clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/abczsl520/browser-use-pro. Once installed, ensure you have a Python environment prepared by running the setup script provided in the documentation to initialize the necessary dependencies, including Playwright and the browser-use engine. If you intend to use the real Chrome connection (Mode B), ensure Google Chrome is installed on your local system path.

Use Cases

This skill is ideal for scenarios requiring state persistence and complex interaction. Use it for automated web testing, scraping data from password-protected dashboards, managing repetitive SaaS workflows, or interacting with legacy sites that require specific user-agent strings and browser fingerprints to avoid detection. It is particularly effective for any task exceeding 5 steps that involves conditional logic based on dynamic web content.

Example Prompts

1. "Open my company dashboard at payroll.example.com, log in using my saved credentials, and export the last three months of invoices as CSV files."
2. "Go to the competitor analysis tool, sign in, search for 'open-source automation trends', and summarize the findings into a report for me."
3. "Navigate to the registration portal, fill out the application form using the details in my local 'candidate.json' file, and wait for the confirmation message to appear."

Tips & Limitations

Be mindful that this skill consumes significantly more resources than built-in tools. Because it utilizes an LLM for reasoning at every step, keep your task descriptions clear and concise to avoid unnecessary token usage. Always prefer the built-in browser tool for simple, one-click interactions to minimize cost. For anti-bot sites, ensure you have launched Chrome with the remote debugging flag enabled. Note that this skill runs code locally; ensure your machine is active during the execution of long-running browser scripts.