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DimensionPuppeteer MCP ServerHeadless browser control & screenshotsChrome DevTools MCPThe Chrome team's official MCP server exposing Chrome DevTools capabilities to AI assistants
FMRS62 / 100 · C76 / 100 · B
Reliability14 / 2013 / 20
Security and permissions11 / 2012 / 20
Maintenance10 / 2017 / 20
Documentation14 / 2017 / 20
Setup experience13 / 2017 / 20
Best for
  • Testing and collection tasks that need an assistant to inspect rendered pages
  • Development teams automating screenshots, form filling, or browser regression checks
  • Frontend developers who want AI-assisted web debugging and performance analysis
  • Scenarios that need browser automation and performance diagnostics in the same tool
Not for
  • Environments that prohibit automated external browsing or web-account credentials
  • Production-scale scraping that requires advanced anti-bot handling and distributed execution
  • Cases that only need to scrape page text without performance analysis or complex interaction (a lighter scraping tool is a better fit)
Required permissions
  • Permission to launch a local Chromium process
  • Network access to target websites and, for authenticated flows, a suitable test account
  • Requires a local Chrome browser instance to run
  • navigate_page can visit any URL; type_text/fill_form and similar tools can enter arbitrary content into the page
Risks and side effects
  • Automated clicks and form fills can trigger real submissions or external side effects
  • Screenshots, page content, and browser sessions may expose sensitive information
  • Browser automation tools can access and manipulate the content of open pages — use only in a trusted development/test environment
  • performance_start_trace and similar tracing tools continuously record browser activity — avoid leaving them running on pages containing sensitive information
Supported clientsClaude Desktop, Cursor, ClineClaude Code, VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf, JetBrains IDEs, Cline, Amp, Kiro, Antigravity
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