In today's fast-paced digital world, businesses are constantly searching for an edge. Repetitive, manual tasks—especially those that live inside a web browser—can drain countless hours from your team's day. From gathering market intelligence to onboarding new users, these workflows are critical but often tedious and prone to human error.
Enter Robotic Process Automation (RPA). For years, RPA has promised to offload these tasks to software "bots." However, traditional web automation tools have a notorious weak spot: they're fragile. Built on rigid rules and specific CSS selectors, they break the moment a website's layout changes.
But what if automation could be as smart and adaptable as a human? What if you could simply tell a bot what you need, in plain English? This is no longer science fiction. Welcome to the era of AI-powered web automation, led by tools like browse.do.
For developers and operations teams, the goal has always been to turn manual browser actions into automated scripts. The standard approach involves:
The problem? This process is brittle. A website redesign, a button's class name change, or a new A/B test can render your entire script useless, leading to silent failures and a constant, frustrating maintenance cycle.
Imagine a different approach. Instead of meticulously programming every click and keystroke, you provide a high-level objective. This is the core philosophy behind browse.do. We've built an AI agent that uses a full, headless browser to understand and interact with any website, just like a person would.
It turns complex browser interactions into a simple function call.
Don't believe it? Here's how you'd find the top story on Hacker News:
import { browse } from "@do-inc/agents";
async function getTopHackerNewsStory() {
const result = await browse.do({
url: "https://news.ycombinator.com",
objective: "Find the title of the top story and its URL."
});
console.log(result.data);
// Expected output: { title: "...", url: "..." }
return result.data;
}
getTopHackerNewsStory();
Notice what's missing? There are no selectors, no XPath, no complex logic to handle page loads. You simply state your goal, and the AI agent does the heavy lifting, returning clean, structured JSON data.
Because the browse.do agent understands context and can perform multi-step actions, it unlocks a new level of sophisticated automation.
Forget writing fragile scrapers. Point the AI agent to a dynamic, JavaScript-heavy website—like an e-commerce product page or a social media feed—and tell it what you need.
Automate any workflow a human can perform. The agent uses a full browser environment, allowing it to handle cookies, manage login sessions, and interact with complex Single-Page Applications (SPAs).
Writing and maintaining automated test suites is a significant development cost. With browse.do, you can describe user flows in natural language.
browse.do represents a fundamental shift away from traditional robotic process automation and web scraping tools.
The era of spending days writing and debugging brittle web automation scripts is over. With an AI-powered agent, you can focus on your business goals, not on the quirks of a website's CSS. By turning manual processes into a single API call, you can save time, eliminate errors, and build more powerful, data-driven applications.
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