browserbase/stagehand

The SDK to extract data and interact with any site on the web. Get started with Claude Code, Codex, Eve, Mastra, and more.

AI agentsTypeScript#agents#ai#playwright#ai-agents#browser-agent

3.2 Steady Magnitude out of 10. Star growth looks organic. Data as of September 18, 2026.

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About the project

SDK in TypeScript, Python and Go for LLM-driven browser control: observe/act/extract find selectors, perform actions and return schema-validated data. Built for agents that operate websites like humans.

Useful for

Build an invoice scraper for a logged-in dashboard with session persistence via userDataDir
Automate site login without sending credentials to the model
Extract structured page data validated with zod or pydantic

README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.

Why it’s trending

39 stars today. The usual pace is 12 per day, so that's 3.5× as much.
Over the last two days the pace is 1.9× that of the previous week and a half.
Hacker News: “We made Playwright 2x faster and 80% more token efficient” — 33 points, 6 h ago.

Stars per day

Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.

Numbers

Total stars: 24,362
Stars in a day: 41
Forks: 1,689
Issues and pull requests: 2,864
Watchers: 102
Language: TypeScript
License: MIT
Latest release: @browserbasehq/[email protected] · August 28, 2026
Created: March 24, 2024
Last push: September 18, 2026

Star trust

Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.

These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.

Hacker News discussions

We made Playwright 2x faster and 80% more token efficient33 points, September 18, 2026

Spotted in

September 18, 2026Spotted on Hacker News

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