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Show HN: Hyperbrowser MCP Server - Connect AI agents to the web
through browsers
Hi HN! Excited to share our MCP Server at Hyperbrowser - something
we've been working on for a few days. We think it's a pretty neat
way to connect LLMs and IDEs like Cursor / Windsurf to the
internet. Our MCP server exposes seven tools for data collection
and browsing: 1. `scrape_webpage` - Extract formatted (markdown,
screenshot etc) content from any webpage 2. `crawl_webpages` -
Navigate through multiple linked pages and extract LLM-friendly
formatted content 3. `extract_structured_data` - Convert messy
HTML into structured JSON 4. `search_with_bing` - Query the web
and get results with Bing search 5. `browser_use_agent` - Fast,
lightweight browser automation with the Browser Use agent 6.
`openai_computer_use_agent` - General-purpose automation using
OpenAI's CUA model 7. `claude_computer_use_agent` - Complex
browser tasks using Claude computer use You can connect the server
to Cursor, Windsurf, Claude desktop, and any other MCP clients with
this command `npx -y hyperbrowser-mcp` and a Hyperbrowser API key.
We're running this on our cloud browser infrastructure that we've
been developing for the past few months - it handles captchas,
proxies, and stealth browsing automatically. Some fun things you
can do with it: (1) deep research with claude desktop, (2)
summarizing the latest HN posts, (3) creating full applications
from short gists in Cursor, (3) automating code review in cursor,
(4) generating llms.txt for any website with windsurf, (5) ordering
sushi from windsurf (admittedly, this is just for fun - probably
not actually going to do this myself). We're building this server
in the open and would love feedback from anyone building agents or
working with web automation. If you find bugs or have feature
requests, please let us know! One big issue with MCPs in general is
that the installation UX sucks and auth credentials have to be
hardcoded. We don't have a solution to this right now but Anthropic
seems to be working on something here so excited for that to come
out. Love to hear any other complaints / thoughts you have about
the server itself, Hyperbrowser, or the installation experience.
You can check us out at https://hyperbrowser.ai or check out the
source code at https://github.com/hyperbrowserai/mcp
Author : shrisukhani
Score : 29 points
Date : 2025-03-20 17:01 UTC (1 days ago)
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| pizzafeelsright wrote:
| Fantastic.
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| MCPs are showing promise.
| fosterfriends wrote:
| ++ love that folks are trying to build companies on MCP. Good
| luck!
| shrisukhani wrote:
| Thanks! :)
| shrisukhani wrote:
| Thanks!
|
| And yeah MCP is super promising. We announced this on X and
| LinkedIn yesterday and the response has been really good. A lot
| of people with a bunch of use cases.
|
| One surprising thing is there's also a bunch of semi/non-
| technical people using our MCP server and the installation
| experience for them rn just absolutely sucks.
|
| I think once auth and 1-click install are solved, MCP could
| become _the_ standard way to integrate tools with LLMs
| TheTaytay wrote:
| This looks cool.
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| 1) I looked at the pricing. Is search included in the price -
| (you just pay credits/browser time?)
|
| 2) Can you tell me more about the source of your residential
| proxies? I am new to this space, so don't know how people source
| these legitimately.
|
| Thanks!
| shrisukhani wrote:
| Thanks!
|
| 1) Yep, you just pay from browser time and proxy usage
|
| 2) We use a handful of proxy providers under the hood
| ourselves. There's a lot of shady ones but we only work with
| ones where we've vetted the source of. Different providers
| source proxies in different ways - directly from ISPs, paying
| end sources for proxies etc
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