# browserbase/stagehand

> 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.

- Magnitude: 1.4 out of 10 — Cooling
- Stars: 25,533 total · +0 stars measured 2026-10-05, 00:12–16:42 UTC, ≈ 1 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: AI agents · Language: TypeScript · License: MIT · Created: 2024-03-24 · Last push: 2026-10-05
- GitHub: https://github.com/browserbase/stagehand · Homepage: https://stagehand.dev · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/browserbase/stagehand
- GitNova flagged it 27 hours before GitHub Trending.

## 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

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-05 (UTC), 00:12–16:42: 25534 → 25533 stars (-1). This is the change over that interval.
- Hacker News: “For Computer Use, the harness matters as much as the model” — 33 points, 10 days ago.
- Recent forks include notable developers: @alanagoyal (332 followers).

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 1,753
- Issues and pull requests: 2,973
- Watchers: 105
- Average over the last week: 14 per day
- Usual pace: 67 per day
- Latest release: @browserbasehq/stagehand@3.7.3 (2026-08-28)

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-10-05 … 2026-11-03: 2, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None

## Magnitude by day, last 14 days

09-22 7.0, 09-23 7.3, 09-24 5.0, 09-25 3.1, 09-26 2.7, 09-27 2.2, 09-28 2.2, 09-29 2.1, 09-30 2.1, 10-01 2.1, 10-02 1.9, 10-03 1.7, 10-04 1.7, 10-05 1.6

## Hacker News

- We made Playwright 2x faster and 80% more token efficient — 154 points, 40 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49756671
- For Computer Use, the harness matters as much as the model — 33 points, 18 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49833760

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-10-05 16:51 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.