Browser API: Headless scraping browser in cloud

Headless browser API for AI agents, automation, and scraping - discover, access, extract, and interact with any public website. Ready for any model, pipeline, or workflow.

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How it works

Connect, automate, inspect - all in the cloud. Run managed browser sessions through an API built for web scraping, data extraction, testing, and automation. MegaIndex helps you render JavaScript pages, control sessions, connect proxies, manage captcha tasks, and collect public web data without maintaining your own browser infrastructure.

How Browser API works

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Need help with Browser API access, integration, pricing, or enterprise usage? Contact the MegaIndex team to discuss your scraping and automation requirements.

How to get started

Connect your automation tool to cloud browsers

Puppeteer (Node.js) code example
const puppeteer = require('puppeteer-core');

async function main() {
  const connectionUri = process.env.MEGAINDEX_BROWSER_CDP_URL;

  if (!connectionUri) {
    throw new Error('MEGAINDEX_BROWSER_CDP_URL is not set');
  }

  const browser = await puppeteer.connect({
    browserWSEndpoint: connectionUri,
  });

  const page = await browser.newPage();
  await page.goto('https://example.com', {
    waitUntil: 'networkidle2',
    timeout: 60_000,
  });

  console.log(await page.title());
  await browser.disconnect();
}

main().catch((error) => {
  console.error(error);
  process.exit(1);
});
Playwright (Node.js) code example
const { chromium } = require('playwright');

async function main() {
  const connectionUri = process.env.MEGAINDEX_BROWSER_CDP_URL;

  if (!connectionUri) {
    throw new Error('MEGAINDEX_BROWSER_CDP_URL is not set');
  }

  const browser = await chromium.connectOverCDP(connectionUri);
  const context = browser.contexts()[0];
  const page = await context.newPage();

  await page.goto('https://example.com', {
    waitUntil: 'networkidle',
    timeout: 60_000,
  });

  console.log(await page.title());
  await page.screenshot({ path: 'browser-api-test.png', fullPage: true });
  await browser.close();
}

main().catch((error) => {
  console.error(error);
  process.exit(1);
});
Playwright (Python) code example
import asyncio
import os

from playwright.async_api import async_playwright

async def main() -> None:
    connection_uri = os.environ["MEGAINDEX_BROWSER_CDP_URL"]

    async with async_playwright() as playwright:
        browser = await playwright.chromium.connect_over_cdp(connection_uri)
        context = browser.contexts[0]
        page = await context.new_page()

        await page.goto(
            "https://example.com",
            wait_until="networkidle",
            timeout=60_000,
        )

        print(await page.title())
        await page.screenshot(path="browser-api-test.png", full_page=True)
        await browser.close()


asyncio.run(main())
Playwright for Java code example
import java.nio.file.Paths;

import com.microsoft.playwright.Browser;
import com.microsoft.playwright.BrowserContext;
import com.microsoft.playwright.Page;
import com.microsoft.playwright.Playwright;

public class BrowserApiExample {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        String connectionUri = System.getenv("MEGAINDEX_BROWSER_CDP_URL");

        if (connectionUri == null || connectionUri.isBlank()) {
            throw new IllegalStateException("MEGAINDEX_BROWSER_CDP_URL is not set");
        }

        try (Playwright playwright = Playwright.create()) {
            Browser browser = playwright.chromium().connectOverCDP(connectionUri);
            BrowserContext context = browser.contexts().get(0);
            Page page = context.newPage();

            page.navigate("https://example.com");
            System.out.println(page.title());
            page.screenshot(new Page.ScreenshotOptions()
                .setPath(Paths.get("browser-api-test.png"))
                .setFullPage(true));

            browser.close();
        }
    }
}
Playwright for .NET (C#) code example
using Microsoft.Playwright;

var connectionUri = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable(
    "MEGAINDEX_BROWSER_CDP_URL"
) ?? throw new InvalidOperationException(
    "MEGAINDEX_BROWSER_CDP_URL is not set"
);

using var playwright = await Playwright.CreateAsync();
await using var browser = await playwright.Chromium.ConnectOverCDPAsync(
    connectionUri
);

var context = browser.Contexts[0];
var page = await context.NewPageAsync();

await page.GotoAsync("https://example.com", new PageGotoOptions
{
    WaitUntil = WaitUntilState.NetworkIdle,
    Timeout = 60_000,
});

Console.WriteLine(await page.TitleAsync());
await page.ScreenshotAsync(new PageScreenshotOptions
{
    Path = "browser-api-test.png",
    FullPage = true,
});
Chromedp (Go) code example
package main

import (
	"context"
	"fmt"
	"log"
	"os"
	"time"

	"github.com/chromedp/chromedp"
)

func main() {
	connectionURI := os.Getenv("MEGAINDEX_BROWSER_CDP_URL")
	if connectionURI == "" {
		log.Fatal("MEGAINDEX_BROWSER_CDP_URL is not set")
	}

	allocatorCtx, cancelAllocator := chromedp.NewRemoteAllocator(
		context.Background(),
		connectionURI,
		chromedp.NoModifyURL,
	)
	defer cancelAllocator()

	ctx, cancelBrowser := chromedp.NewContext(allocatorCtx)
	defer cancelBrowser()

	ctx, cancelTimeout := context.WithTimeout(ctx, 60*time.Second)
	defer cancelTimeout()

	var title string
	if err := chromedp.Run(
		ctx,
		chromedp.Navigate("https://example.com"),
		chromedp.Title(&title),
	); err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}

	fmt.Println(title)
}

Integrations

Python SDK Python SDK
JS/TS SDK JS/TS SDK
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Zapier Zapier
Make Make
n8n n8n
Dify Dify
Langchain Langchain
Langflow Langflow
CrewAI CrewAI
LlamaIndex LlamaIndex
Flowise Flowise
Composio Composio
CAMEL-AI CAMEL-AI
Pipedream Pipedream
Praison AI Praison AI

Pricing

Start free, then scale when your automation needs more browser sessions, higher concurrency, and dedicated support.

Free

Free test plan - $0 for 1 GB. For developers testing Browser API and building their automation workflows.

$0 / GB

Start with included browser credits and connect through Playwright, Puppeteer, Selenium, or CDP.

Start for free
  • API access
  • Limited browser credits
  • Browser session logs
  • Connection configuration

Dev

For developers testing Browser API and building first automation workflows.

100 GB $250
$2.5 / GB

Custom paid plan based on your traffic volume, concurrency requirements, workflow setup, and support needs.

Quick start
  • API access
  • Included browser credits
  • Browser session logs
  • Assisted browser workflow handling
  • Dedicated support
  • Zero-data retention
  • SSO
  • Advanced security

Enterprise

For teams running high-volume browser automation with custom limits, dedicated capacity, and priority support.

Custom

Get a plan tailored to your traffic volume, concurrency needs, proxy setup, and support requirements.

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  • API access
  • Limited browser credits
  • Browser session logs
  • Assisted browser workflow handling
  • Scrape unlimited
  • Dedicated support
  • Bulk discounts
  • Zero-data retention
  • SSO
  • Advanced security

Managed headless cloud browser infrastructure

MegaIndex gives developers access to scalable browser infrastructure through a remote API connection. Instead of running headless browsers on your own servers, you can load pages, render JavaScript, interact with websites, manage sessions, and extract data in a controlled browser environment.

Device emulation

Run sessions as real mobile or desktop devices with accurate browser and screen settings.

Assisted browser workflow handling

Easy define how browser sessions handle pages that require verification, review, or user interaction.

Ad blocking

Block ads and trackers to reduce bandwidth usage and improve page load speed.

Session persistence

Reuse the same proxy peer and browser state across multiple sessions.

Session ID access

Get active session IDs to inspect logs, debug issues, and track usage.

File downloads

Capture PDFs, CSVs, images, and other files directly from the browser session.

Built for JavaScript-heavy websites

Modern websites often rely on client-side rendering, lazy loading, cookies, sessions, browser checks, and anti-bot protection. Browser API is designed for pages that simple HTTP requests cannot process reliably.

Compatible with automation stacks

Connect browser API to Playwright, Puppeteer, Selenium, custom scrapers, backend services, and RPA tools. Developers get browser-level control while MegaIndex handles scaling, availability, and infrastructure maintenance.

Stable browser sessions

Use configurable browser sessions for rendering, session control, retries, and consistent page behavior across modern websites.

Browser automation without infrastructure overhead

Run browser-based scraping workflows in managed cloud sessions. MegaIndex handles rendering, proxies, session behavior, retries, and browser availability, while your team controls interactions, navigation, and extraction through Playwright, Puppeteer, Selenium, or CDP.

Why AI agents need MegaIndex

Most agent failures are not reasoning failures. They are access and context failures. The agent could not reach the page, crawl the website, extract the right data, or return it in a format the workflow could actually use.

Search

Search the web and get full content from results.

Scrape

Get llm-ready data from websites. Markdown, JSON, screenshot, etc.

Interact

Scrape a page, then interact with it using AI prompts or code.

Training data is always behind

Your model only knows the web up to a certain point. The page your user asks about may have changed yesterday, or may not have existed at all when the model was trained.

MegaIndex gives agents live access to web data through a scraping API instead of forcing them to rely on a static snapshot.

Generic scrapers return too much noise

Raw HTML is full of navigation, ads, scripts, cookie banners, and boilerplate. That forces the agent to separate signal from noise before it can do the actual work.

MegaIndex turns any URL into clean, structured markdown, so tokens are spent on useful content, not page clutter.

Agents need structured entities, not loose text

When an agent needs information about a company, product, or website, it should not have to crawl pages, parse layouts, and guess which details matter.

MegaIndex extracts typed structured data on demand: logos, brand colors, industry, social links, metadata, and other entity-level signals agents can use directly.

AI ready: Connect AI agent. MegaIndex handle the data layer.

Connect MegaIndex to your AI agents through API, CLI, Skills, or MCP. One connection gives your agent access to live web data without making your team build the scraping, proxy, rendering, cleanup, and extraction layer manually.

Your agent sends a request. MegaIndex collects the data, prepares it, and returns clean markdown or structured output ready to use.

Trusted in production. Proven at scale.

Fastest on the market

Billions of pages crawled and extracted without downtime

99.99% uptime

Regional connection options across global locations

2M+ developers using MegaIndex

Trusted in production. Proven at scale

300M+ monthly requests handled

BI-ready datasets

Power advanced browser workflows

Agent automation

  • Automate browser tasks with AI agents
  • Fill forms, search, click, and scroll
  • Start sessions with low latency
  • Keep workflows isolated and secure

Managed browser sessions

  • Configure browser environments
  • Regional settings
  • Session state
  • Workflow rules for page rendering and automation

AI-ready data pipelines

  • Collect data in real time or batch mode
  • Extract structured or unstructured output
  • Discover relevant sources automatically
  • Integrate with agents through MCP

Compliance

MegaIndex is built for lawful, authorized, and responsible access to web data. The service is intended for legitimate use cases such as SEO research, market analysis, website monitoring, brand intelligence, AI agent workflows, public data collection, accessibility tools, and testing systems you own or are authorized to test.

You may use MegaIndex to collect and process publicly available information when you have a lawful basis to do so and when your workflow respects applicable laws, website terms, privacy requirements, contracts, and third-party rights.

MegaIndex must not be used for illegal, deceptive, abusive, or unauthorized activity. Prohibited use includes phishing, spam, fraud, credential stuffing, account takeover, fake account creation, payment abuse, scraping private or confidential data, targeting systems without permission, bypassing access controls for unauthorized access, or collecting data in ways that violate laws, rights, or contractual obligations.

Users are responsible for how they use the service. We review abuse reports and may restrict or terminate access when MegaIndex is used in harmful, unlawful, or clearly prohibited scenarios.

Compliance

Reviews web data for AI agents and automation

Discover, access, extract, and interact with any public website. Get structured, reliable. Ready for any service, model, pipeline, or workflow.

Data protection

MegaIndex provides information about privacy, account data, payment data, and data processing practices in its legal documents. Customers operating under GDPR or similar privacy frameworks should review the applicable policies and use Browser API in line with their own compliance obligations.

FAQ

MegaIndex Cloud Browser API is a managed cloud browser environment for teams that need real browser execution without maintaining browser infrastructure themselves. It is built for browser automation, public web data workflows, QA testing, AI agent browsing, dynamic page processing, screenshots, file downloads, and structured data extraction from pages that require real browser behavior.
Use a cloud browser when a page behaves more like an application than a static document: JavaScript rendering, asynchronous requests, scrolling, clicking, form filling, cookies, local storage, screenshots, file downloads, or persistent session state.
MegaIndex Cloud Browser moves browser updates, infrastructure, scaling, session state, logs, connection settings, crashes, retries, cleanup, monitoring, and error handling to the cloud so your application can focus on the workflow.
MegaIndex Cloud Browser works with Playwright, Puppeteer, Selenium, and other clients that support the Chrome DevTools Protocol.
Yes. MegaIndex Cloud Browser loads pages in a real browser environment, executes JavaScript, renders dynamic content, and lets your script wait for elements before interacting with the page or extracting data.
Yes. You can define regional settings, session rules, persistent browser state, and workflow-specific connection behavior depending on project needs.
Yes. MegaIndex Cloud Browser supports workflows where a page requires additional verification, review, confirmation, or user interaction during automation.
Yes. Persistent sessions can keep cookies, local storage, browser state, and session context across multiple steps.
Yes. MegaIndex Cloud Browser can emulate desktop and mobile environments, including viewport size, screen dimensions, user agent, and device-related browser settings.
Yes. MegaIndex Cloud Browser can handle file downloads inside the automation flow, including PDFs, CSV files, images, reports, exports, and other generated files.
Yes. AI agents can use MegaIndex Cloud Browser as a controlled web environment for live browser tasks.
Yes. MegaIndex Cloud Browser is designed for scalable browser automation and public web data workflows.
Common use cases include public web data collection, market research, SEO monitoring, price monitoring, browser-based QA, website testing, AI agent browsing, dynamic page processing, screenshots, file downloads, and structured data extraction from JavaScript-heavy pages.
MegaIndex Cloud Browser must be used only for lawful, responsible, and compliant automation. It must not be used for account abuse, credential attacks, spam, fraud, unauthorized access, privacy violations, harmful automation, or activity that breaks applicable laws, platform rules, or third-party rights.

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