Openclaw Browser Auto
Skill by happyfee
Why use this skill?
Integrate OpenClaw with remote Chrome, Docker, or Browserless.io to automate complex web tasks using CDP with this powerful, lightweight browser automation skill.
Install via CLI (Recommended)
clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/happyfee/openclaw-browser-autoWhat This Skill Does
OpenClaw Browser Auto is a specialized integration layer that allows the OpenClaw agent to interface with remote Chrome DevTools Protocol (CDP) endpoints. By decoupling the agent's core processing from the browser rendering engine, this skill enables seamless control over browser instances running in Docker containers, remote servers, or managed cloud services like browserless.io. It transforms your OpenClaw agent into a sophisticated web interaction engine capable of navigation, scraping, and form submission without relying on local resource-heavy graphical interfaces.
Installation
To begin, ensure you have the OpenClaw gateway installed and reachable. Run the installation command via the terminal: clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/happyfee/openclaw-browser-auto. Once installed, you must modify your ~/.openclaw/openclaw.json configuration file to point to your specific CDP endpoint. After updating the JSON configuration, restart your gateway using systemctl --user restart openclaw-gateway to apply the changes. Verification is performed by executing openclaw browser status to confirm the handshake between the agent and the target browser environment.
Use Cases
This skill is designed for high-performance automation scenarios. Key use cases include: 1) Automated web scraping where you need to distribute browsing load across multiple cloud instances. 2) CI/CD pipeline testing where the agent verifies web UI deployments inside headless containers. 3) Continuous data monitoring where the agent periodically visits specific URLs to log changes. 4) Running browser automation tasks on servers that lack a windowing system (no X11/Wayland support).
Example Prompts
- "Navigate to https://example.com/login and fill in the credentials using the stored secure vault entries."
- "Extract all table data from the current page and export the results to a CSV file in my local directory."
- "Start a new session on the remote browser and monitor the dashboard for any network performance warnings."
Tips & Limitations
To maximize stability, always prefer chromedp/headless-shell for long-running sessions, as it is lighter than standard Chrome installations. Always set attachOnly: true if you are running the browser process externally to prevent OpenClaw from attempting to spawn local processes that might clash with your container's port mapping. Note that the agent is limited by the capabilities of the target CDP instance; ensure your remote browser allows CORS and has sufficient memory allocated via --shm-size to prevent intermittent crashes during page rendering.
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{
"plugins": {
"official-happyfee-openclaw-browser-auto": {
"enabled": true,
"auto_update": true
}
}
}Tags(AI)
Flags: network-access, external-api