Browserless REST API
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AI ReadinessFoundational (D+)48/100
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For Agents
Render any URL to HTML, screenshot, or PDF, scrape structured data, run performance audits, and unblock bot-protected pages - all over a managed Chrome fleet. Useful for content extraction, document generation, and web-research agents.
Use for: I need to render a URL to HTML after JavaScript has executed, Take a full-page screenshot of a webpage, Generate a PDF of a customer invoice page, Scrape product details from a product listing page
Not supported: Does not handle long-lived Playwright sessions, captcha solving, or proxy rental - use for one-shot REST browser actions like content, scrape, screenshot, PDF, search, unblock, and performance only.
Jentic publishes the only available OpenAPI specification for Browserless REST API, keeping it validated and agent-ready. Browserless provides managed headless Chrome as a service, with a small set of opinionated REST endpoints that handle the most common browser-automation use cases without requiring a Playwright or Puppeteer client. The v2 API exposes /scrape for structured extraction, /content for raw rendered HTML, /screenshot and /pdf for visual outputs, /search for grounded web search, /unblock for bypassing common bot detections, and /performance for Lighthouse-style audits.
Install Jentic One Beta
Connect the Browserless REST API to your agent
Jentic One is a self-hosted execution layer for AI agents. It lets your agent call the Browserless REST API, or any other public or private API you need. You set the rules, the agent never sees your credentials, and every call is logged.
Two steps, two machines. Install the instance in a safe environment, then register your agent from wherever it runs.
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Step 1: Jentic One Host machine
# On the machine that will host your Jentic One instance:
curl -fsSL "https://jentic.com/install.sh?src=apis&api=%2Fapis%2Fbrowserless.io%2Fbrowserless" | sh2
Step 2: Agent machine
# On the machine where your agent runs (keep this separate from the instance):
curl -fsSL "https://jentic.com/install.sh?src=apis&api=%2Fapis%2Fbrowserless.io%2Fbrowserless" | sh
jentic register # connects your agent to your Jentic One instanceJentic One is in public beta. The setup above keeps your agent separate from the instance, which is what you want before using real credentials: an agent running as the same OS user as Jentic One can read its stored keys directly. Just evaluating? A single local install is fine to start. See the secure deployment guide for the tiers.
Capabilities
What an agent can do with Browserless REST API.
Render a URL to fully resolved HTML after JavaScript execution via /content
Extract structured data using a CSS selector schema in a single /scrape call
Generate full-page or viewport screenshots in PNG or JPEG via /screenshot
Convert any URL to a print-quality PDF with custom paper size and margins via /pdf
Run a grounded web search and get rendered, parsed results via /search
Bypass common bot-detection layers on protected pages via /unblock
Run Lighthouse-style performance audits and return the JSON report via /performance
Use Cases
Patterns agents use Browserless REST API for, with concrete tasks.
★ On-Demand HTML to PDF Conversion
Document platforms convert web pages to PDF for invoicing, contracts, and report archives by sending the source URL to /pdf with paper size and header configuration. Browserless renders the page in a real Chromium instance so JavaScript-driven layouts come out correctly, and the response is the binary PDF. Typical conversion times are under 3 seconds for simple pages.
POST /pdf with the invoice URL and paper format A4 to receive the PDF binary in the response body
Structured Web Scraping
Data teams use /scrape with a JSON schema describing CSS selectors and fields they want extracted. Browserless renders the page, applies the selectors, and returns structured JSON ready to ingest into a warehouse. This replaces in-house Puppeteer code and DOM parsing for the long tail of one-off scrape jobs that don't justify a dedicated robot.
POST /scrape with the target URL and an elements schema specifying selectors for product name, price, and availability
Page Performance Auditing in CI
Front-end teams run /performance on every preview deploy to catch regressions in Largest Contentful Paint, Cumulative Layout Shift, and Total Blocking Time. The endpoint returns the full Lighthouse JSON which the CI job parses and compares against a baseline. This is a managed alternative to running Lighthouse CI containers in your own pipeline.
POST /performance with the preview deploy URL and parse the returned categories.performance.score field, failing the build if it drops below 0.85
AI Web-Research Agent Through Jentic
An AI research agent uses Jentic to fetch and parse pages without holding the Browserless token. It searches for 'render a webpage and extract structured data', loads the /scrape schema, and executes the call. Combined with /search and /unblock, the agent can run a full grounded research loop - search, fetch, parse - entirely through Browserless's managed browsers.
Use Jentic to search 'render a webpage and extract structured data', load the browserless.io /scrape operation, and execute it for the research target URL
Key Endpoints
7 endpoints — jentic publishes the only available openapi specification for browserless rest api, keeping it validated and agent-ready.
METHOD
PATH
DESCRIPTION
POST
/content
Render a URL to resolved HTML
POST
/scrape
Extract structured data using a selector schema
POST
/screenshot
Capture a screenshot of a URL
POST
Render a URL to PDF
POST
/search
Run a grounded web search
POST
/unblock
Bypass bot-detection layers on a target URL
POST
/performance
Run a Lighthouse-style performance audit
POST
/content
Render a URL to resolved HTML
POST
/scrape
Extract structured data using a selector schema
POST
/screenshot
Capture a screenshot of a URL
POST/pdf
Render a URL to PDF
POST
/search
Run a grounded web search
POST
/unblock
Bypass bot-detection layers on a target URL
POST
/performance
Run a Lighthouse-style performance audit
Jentic AI Readiness Score
This API is usable in Jentic One now. Its AI-readiness score against Jentic's framework shows where it stands today and where improvements would make it even easier for agents to use.
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Browserless REST API
- Foundational (D+)48/100
85
Foundational Compliance63
Developer Experience & Jentic Compatibility50
AI-Readiness & Agent Experience94
Agent Usability15
Security100
AI DiscoverabilityPowered by JenticScoring Framework 1.0.0 | Scoring Engine 0.4.0
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Foundational Compliance
Base layer of spec validity and structural soundness.
Grade: ASignals: 4
99%
Lint Results
Aggregated quality score from linter diagnostics, weighted by severity.
100%
Resolution Completeness
Percentage of `$ref` references that resolve successfully.
100%
Specification Validity
Checks whether the API description parses successfully and conforms to its declared specification (e.g., OpenAPI).
42%
Structural Integrity
Structural correctness score based on schema issues using logarithmic dampening.
63
Developer Experience & Jentic Compatibility
Clarity, completeness, and ingestion readiness for developers and tooling.
Grade: B-Signals: 4
0%
Example Density
How richly the API is illustrated with examples.
100%
Example Validity
Percentage of examples that conform to their schemas.
50%
Response Coverage
Percentage of operations with complete response definitions (success, client error, server error).
100%
Tooling Readiness
Health of API ingestion, bundling, and resolution within Jentic pipelines.
50
AI-Readiness & Agent Experience
Semantic breadth, depth, and agent comprehension for AI systems.
Grade: C-Signals: 4
51%
Description Coverage
Coverage of descriptions across API elements.
0%
Error Standardization
Coverage of RFC 9457 Problem Details for error responses.
100%
OperationId Quality
Coverage, uniqueness, and casing consistency of operationIds for AI inference.
50%
Summary Coverage
Coverage of summaries across operations/tags/info.
94
Agent Usability
Functional utility, complexity comfort, and AI orchestration readiness.
Grade: A+Signals: 1
94%
Complexity Comfort
Agent comfort level based on API operational and structural complexity.
15
Security
Trust, risk posture, and security compliance.
Grade: FSignals: 1
15%
Authentication Strength
Average quality of security schemes based on authentication method strength (weakest link for OAuth2).
100
AI Discoverability
Findability, semantic richness, and reasoning readiness.
Grade: A+Signals: 1
100%
Descriptive Richness
Clarity and depth of descriptions across API elements.
Score it yourself
Every API in the directory is allowlisted, so you can re-score it with no key required.
npx @jentic/api-scorecard-cli score <openapi-url>Why Jentic?
What agents get from Jentic-routed access to this vendor.
Setup
Wiring Browserless by hand means passing your token as the query parameter on every request and picking the right regional host such as production-sfo. Through Jentic you install once, import the Browserless REST API from the API Directory, store the token once, and your agent calls it.
Permission scoping
Browserless takes the target URL in the request body, not as a resource id in the URL path, so scoping is operations-only: limit the agent to the operations it needs, such as scrape and screenshot, and leave out pdf or unblock if it does not need them. You choose which of these one-shot operations it may call.
Credential isolation
Your Browserless token is stored once, encrypted, by your own Jentic One instance and injected as the token query parameter at execution time. It never enters the agent's prompt, logs, or context.
Intent-based discovery
Agents search Jentic by intent such as 'render a webpage to PDF' or 'extract structured data from a webpage', and Jentic returns the matching Browserless operation with its input schema so the agent calls the right endpoint without browsing the reference docs.
Related APIs
Alternatives and complements available in the Jentic catalogue.
FAQs
Specific to using Browserless REST API through Jentic.
Why is there no official OpenAPI spec for Browserless REST API?
Browserless does not publish an OpenAPI specification. Jentic generates and maintains this spec so that AI agents and developers can call Browserless REST API via structured tooling. It is validated against the live API and kept up to date. Get started with Jentic One, the self-hosted execution layer.
What authentication does the Browserless REST API use?
Browserless uses a token passed as a query parameter (`tokenAuth`); the same token works against /content, /scrape, /screenshot, /pdf, /search, /unblock, and /performance. Through Jentic, the token is stored encrypted in your Jentic One instance and the agent receives a scoped execution token instead of the raw value.
Can I generate a PDF of any web page with Browserless?
Yes. POST /pdf accepts a URL plus PDF options like format, margin, landscape, and printBackground, and returns the binary PDF in the response body. You can also pass HTML directly when you don't have a hosted page to point at.
How do I scrape structured data through Jentic?
Search Jentic for 'extract structured data from a webpage', load the browserless.io /scrape schema, and pass the URL plus an elements array describing the CSS selectors and fields you want. The response is structured JSON ready to ingest.
What are the rate limits for Browserless?
The OpenAPI spec does not declare explicit rate limits. Browserless instead limits concurrent sessions per plan; check your plan's concurrency cap before launching large parallel jobs and use /performance for one-off audits rather than tight loops.
Does /unblock guarantee bypassing every bot challenge?
No. /unblock handles common bot-detection layers and challenges, but determined anti-bot vendors evolve continuously. For known-difficult targets, expect to iterate or fall back to a paid scraping API with proxy rotation.
Can I limit what my agent is allowed to do with the Browserless REST API?
Yes. Because Jentic One is self-hosted, your own rules decide which Browserless operations the agent may call and which credentials it may use. Since Browserless takes the target URL in the request body rather than as a path resource, scoping is operations-only: you allow just the endpoints the agent needs, such as /scrape and /screenshot, and leave out /pdf, /search, /unblock, or /performance if it has no reason to use them. Your stored Browserless token is injected only for the operations you permit, so the agent can never call an endpoint you did not grant.
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