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OpenHuman Web Scraper & Browser Control — Browsing and Desktop Automation
OpenHuman ships with two powerful web tools: Web Scraper extracts text content from any URL; Browser & Computer Control operates your browser and desktop like a human. Together, they handle everything from information extraction to interactive workflows.
🌐 Web Scraper
When you only need the page content without interaction, Web Scraper is the direct approach.
- Extracts plain text from any URL
- Auto-converts HTML to structured Markdown
- Output compressed via TokenJuice
- Results can be stored in Memory Tree
🖥️ Browser & Computer Control
When the AI needs to operate your machine like a person — open pages, screenshot, click, type.
Browser
- Open a URL in embedded webview
- Screenshot the current page
- Inspect image output and metadata
Mouse + Keyboard
- Mouse: move, click, drag
- Keyboard: type text, send key chords
- Human-like trajectories avoid bot detection
📊 When to use which
| Scenario | Tool | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Read article/docs | Scraper | Faster, fewer tokens |
| Fill forms / login | Browser control | Needs interaction |
| Monitor page changes | Scraper | Periodic fetch |
| Multi-step UI flow | Browser control | Needs chained actions |
🔒 Safety
- Browser runs in CEF sandbox — no access to personal browser data
- Filesystem tools scoped to workspace
- All tool output compressed via TokenJuice