browser

name

browser

description

Visit a URL or search Bing with Playwright + Chromium, wait for dynamic/SPA content to load, then report page title, text length, and HTML/CSS/JS resource sizes. Supports SOCKS proxy, configurable timeout, optional browser locale, and page content output (plain text or markdown). Use this whenever the user wants to open a URL, read an article or docs page, check if a site is accessible, search the web, or when curl/requests/wget returned empty content. Not for multi-page crawling, form interaction, login, or screenshots.

Browser Skill

Visit a single URL with Playwright + Chromium, wait for dynamic content to settle, and report structured information about the page.

Usage

# Visit a URL
python3 browse.py "https://example.com"

# Search using Bing (auto-detected when input is not a URL)
python3 browse.py "python tutorial"

# With SOCKS proxy
python3 browse.py "https://example.com" --proxy "socks5://127.0.0.1:1081"

# With custom timeout (default 30 s)
python3 browse.py "https://example.com" --timeout 60000

# With optional browser locale
python3 browse.py "https://example.com" --locale en-US
python3 browse.py "https://example.com" --locale zh-CN

# Output page content as plain text or markdown
python3 browse.py "https://example.com" --format txt
python3 browse.py "https://example.com" --format md

CLI Arguments

Argument	Default	Description
url	(required)	URL to visit, or search keywords
--proxy	None	SOCKS proxy, e.g. socks5://127.0.0.1:1081
--timeout	30000	Page load timeout in milliseconds
--locale	None	Optional browser locale, e.g. en-US or zh-CN; if omitted, Playwright default is used
--format	None	Output page content: txt or md

Without --format, only the summary below is printed — not the page body.

Output

Opening: https://example.com
...
Page Title: Example Domain
InnerText Characters: 1,234

Resource Sizes:
  HTML: 1,234 bytes
  CSS:  5,678 bytes
  JS:   9,012 bytes
  Total (HTML+CSS+JS): 15,924 bytes

Requirements

• Python 3 with playwright installed
• Chromium is pre-installed — do not run playwright install chromium
• For --format md: pip install markdownify