ClawdBot Browser Automation

🌐 Browser Automation Overview

ClawdBot integrates with Puppeteer to control Chrome/Chromium browsers programmatically.

What You Can Do

• ✅ Browse websites and extract information
• ✅ Take screenshots and PDFs
• ✅ Fill forms and submit data
• ✅ Automate repetitive web tasks
• ✅ Test web applications
• ✅ Monitor websites for changes

🔧 Setup

Enable Browser Automation

# In config.yaml
browser:
  enabled: true
  headless: true  # Run without GUI
  
  # Chrome/Chromium path (auto-detected usually)
  executablePath: null
  
  # Launch options
  args:
    - '--no-sandbox'
    - '--disable-setuid-sandbox'

Install Dependencies

# Puppeteer is included with ClawdBot
# But you may need Chrome/Chromium

# macOS
brew install chromium

# Ubuntu/Debian
sudo apt install chromium-browser

# Or let Puppeteer download Chrome
clawdbot browser install-chrome

💡 Usage Examples

Basic Browsing

You: Go to example.com and tell me what you see
Bot: [Opens browser, navigates, reads content]
Bot: The page shows "Example Domain" with...

Take Screenshot

You: Screenshot github.com
Bot: [Takes screenshot]
Bot: Here's the screenshot: [image]

Extract Information

You: Go to news.ycombinator.com and get top 5 headlines
Bot: [Scrapes page]
Bot: Top stories:
1. New AI breakthrough...
2. Tech company announces...
...

Fill Forms

You: Go to example.com/contact and fill the form with:
Name: John Doe
Email: john@example.com
Message: Hello!

Bot: [Fills form]
Bot: Form filled. Should I submit?

🕷️ Web Scraping

Scrape Product Prices

You: Check price of iPhone 15 on amazon.com
Bot: [Navigates to Amazon, searches, extracts price]
Bot: iPhone 15 Pro: $999

Monitor Website Changes

# In config.yaml
browser:
  monitors:
    - url: "https://example.com/products"
      selector: ".price"
      interval: 3600  # Check hourly
      notify: true

# ClawdBot will alert you when price changes

Extract Structured Data

You: Go to example.com/products and extract all product names and prices
Bot: [Scrapes page]
Bot: Found 25 products:
- Product A: $29.99
- Product B: $39.99
...

🧪 Automated Testing

Test Login Flow

You: Test login on myapp.com with test@example.com / password123
Bot: [Navigates, fills form, submits]
Bot: ✅ Login successful
Bot: Redirected to dashboard
Bot: Screenshot: [image]

Check for Broken Links

You: Check all links on example.com
Bot: [Crawls site, tests links]
Bot: Found 3 broken links:
- /old-page (404)
- /missing (404)
- /external-dead (timeout)

Performance Testing

You: Measure page load time for example.com
Bot: [Loads page, measures metrics]
Bot: Load time: 1.2s
Bot: Time to Interactive: 2.1s
Bot: Largest Contentful Paint: 1.8s

❓ Browser FAQ