Browserless
· #391 most-usedRun headless browsers in the cloud — screenshots, PDFs, scraping, and automation via REST
Browserless is a cloud headless browser platform that turns every browser automation task into a single REST API call. It runs real Chromium instances in the cloud to render JavaScript-heavy pages, capture full-page screenshots, generate PDFs, scrape structured data, bypass bot detection, execute custom Puppeteer or Playwright code, and crawl entire websites at scale. Connect Browserless to Actionist and your agents can monitor competitor pages, archive legal evidence, audit your website for broken links, generate PDF reports from web-based tools, and extract structured data from any public page — all without managing browser infrastructure.
Eliminates manual work. Agents eliminate the manual cycle of opening browsers to scrape, screenshot, and PDF pages — tasks that happen daily across sales research, marketing monitoring, support documentation, and legal evidence capture.
What your Browserless agent runs on autopilot
A week of scheduled jobs your Actionist agent will execute on your behalf.
Browserless × every other app you use
End-to-end automations that span multiple apps — each one a real business outcome.
Weekly website broken link audit and report
Every Monday the Operations Agent crawls the public website, captures screenshots of any broken or error pages, writes the full report to Google Sheets, and posts a summary to the web team Slack channel — all before the morning standup.
Time saved for your team — every week, on autopilot
Savings
What your team gets back — two angles: what you stop doing manually, and what that's worth.
What you do manually today
What your agent runs for you
- Sales25 min / weekManual competitor research before calls
Reps manually open competitor sites, scan pricing pages, and update the comparison spreadsheet themselves — 20-30 minutes of research that often gets skipped when the pipeline is busy.
Sales Agent0 minAgent scrapes competitor prices before every callThe Sales Agent runs a structured scrape of competitor pricing pages each Monday and writes current plan names and prices to the competitive tracking sheet before the first outbound call of the week.
- Marketing45 min / weekManual competitor site monitoring
The marketing team manually visits competitor sites to check for new pages, pricing updates, or messaging changes — an informal process that misses changes between visits.
Marketing Agent0 minAgent crawls and screenshots competitor sites weeklyThe Marketing Agent crawls competitor sites for new content and captures homepage screenshots each week, delivering a digest of changes and a visual diff to the team without anyone touching a browser.
- Customer Support40 min / weekManual screenshot and bug report creation
Support agents manually visit the reported URL, take a screenshot, write a bug description, attach it to a Notion page, and share it with engineering — taking 15-20 minutes per report.
Customer Support Agent0 minAgent screenshots and routes bug evidence automaticallyWhen a customer reports an error URL, the Support Agent captures a screenshot and full-page HTML, creates the bug report, and routes it to engineering — all before the support agent has finished reading the ticket.
- Human Resources60 min / weekManual competitor hiring and salary research
HR team members manually check competitor career pages and search job boards for salary data each quarter — a time-consuming process that produces a snapshot rather than a continuous feed.
Human Resources Agent0 minAgent monitors competitor hiring and salary data weeklyThe HR Agent crawls competitor career pages and scrapes public job board salary data weekly, delivering a talent intelligence brief without any manual research by the HR team.
- Finance35 min / weekManual vendor pricing review at renewal time
Finance teams typically only review vendor pricing at renewal — meaning price increases go unnoticed until the invoice arrives, too late to renegotiate or adjust the budget.
Finance Agent0 minAgent monitors vendor pricing pages for changes automaticallyThe Finance Agent scrapes every vendor pricing page weekly and flags any plan or price change in Slack — price increases are caught before renewal rather than discovered on the invoice.
- Operations20 min / weekReactive broken link discovery from customers
Without automated monitoring, broken links are usually discovered when a customer complains or a team member happens to click on one — days or weeks after the link broke.
Operations Agent0 minAgent crawls the site and reports broken links each MondayThe Operations Agent crawls the public website each Monday, identifies all broken links with HTTP error codes, and delivers a report to the web team before the working day begins.
- Legal30 min / weekManual evidence capture and archiving
Legal teams manually screenshot web pages, add timestamps in file names, and save them to shared drives — a fragile process where evidence can disappear or be disputed if the page changes before capture.
Legal Agent0 minAgent captures and archives web evidence on demandThe Legal Agent captures time-stamped screenshots and PDFs of specified web pages within minutes of a request, saving them to the legal evidence archive with defensible metadata.
Calculate what your team saves
Based on Browserless's typical team usage — the visible tasks plus a few other automations the agent runs: ~2.5 hrs / person / week of admin work automated.
How to plug Browserless into Actionist
Pick the connection method that suits your environment.
Connect Browserless using your account's API token. All REST endpoint calls are authenticated with the token via the Authorization header — no OAuth flow required.
Log in to your Browserless account at browserless.io and go to Account → API Tokens.
Click Generate to create a new API token. Copy the token — it is only shown once.
Paste the token into Actionist's connection screen and click Test connection. Actionist runs a verification call to confirm the token is valid.
14 actions your agent can call
Read and write operations available to your Actionist agent.
0 events your agent can react to
Events your agent watches for, and the actions it kicks off in response.