Research & docs / Stagehand
Stagehand
Browser automation that mixes code and plain-English actions on top of Playwright.
- Best for
- Devs writing resilient scrapers
- Type
- Open-source library
- Price
- Free / open source
- Setup
- Hard
How to set it up
- Clone the repo or install the package from the source link.
- Set up Python/Node and your model API key (or Ollama for local).
- Run the official example end to end.
- Adapt the example to your task and add logging before trusting it.
Source: https://github.com/browserbase/stagehand · Last checked 2026-10-14. Pricing changes often; confirm on the official site.
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