Browser Console MCP facilitates interaction between Cursor's AI and web pages through MCP protocol, providing functions such as executing JavaScript, capturing screenshots, and manipulating page elements for automation and data extraction.
Browser Console MCP facilitates interaction between Cursor's AI and web pages through MCP protocol, providing functions such as executing JavaScript, capturing screenshots, and manipulating page elements for automation and data extraction.
Browser Console MCP is a tool designed to allow Cursor's Claude AI assistant to control and interact with web pages in a browser environment using the MCP (Model Context Protocol). It provides a browser client and MCP server to execute operations like retrieving page HTML, scripts execution, obtaining page title and URL, selecting elements via CSS selectors, capturing screenshots, clicking elements, and inputting text into forms. The setup involves injecting the MCP client in the browser console and configuring the MCP server with a JSON file, enabling seamless integration for automation, testing, and data gathering tasks within the browser. This tool simplifies programmatic browser control, making it ideal for developers, testers, and AI-powered automation workflows.
Who will use browser-console-mcp?
Developers
Testers
AI Automation Users
Web Scrapers
Browser Automation Engineers
How to use the browser-console-mcp?
Step 1: Inject MCP Client by executing the provided script in the browser console.
Step 2: Create a '.cursor/mcp.json' configuration file in your home directory with MCP server details.
Step 3: Use Cursor to invoke tools such as executing JavaScript, capturing screenshots, or interacting with webpage elements via the MCP protocols.
browser-console-mcp's Core Features & Benefits
The Core Features
Get page HTML
Execute JavaScript
Get page title and URL
Select elements using CSS selectors
Capture screenshots
Click elements
Input text into forms
The Benefits
Enables programmatic control of web pages
Facilitates automation for testing and data extraction
Integrates AI assistance into browser tasks
Simplifies complex browser interactions
browser-console-mcp's Main Use Cases & Applications
Automating browser testing with AI
Web scraping data extraction
Performing automated form filling
AI-driven browsing and navigation
Capturing webpage screenshots for monitoring
FAQs of browser-console-mcp
How do I inject the MCP client into my browser?
What configuration is needed for MCP setup?
Can I execute JavaScript on the webpage using this MCP?
How do I capture a screenshot of the current page?
Is this tool compatible with all browsers?
What are the main features of this MCP?
Who are the target users of this MCP?
What programming language is used for this MCP?
How do I get the page title and URL?
Is there any documentation available for this MCP?