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Browser

Abstra provides a built-in browser environment in the cloud, powered by Selenium Grid. You can use it for RPAs, web scraping, automated testing, and any task that requires a browser.

The browser environment supports both Selenium (WebDriver protocol) and Playwright (CDP protocol), so you can choose whichever library fits your use case.

How it works​

When your project is deployed, Abstra automatically provisions a Chrome browser instance for your project. It scales to zero when not in use and starts up on demand.

  • Selenium connects via the ABSTRA_SELENIUM_URL environment variable
  • Playwright connects automatically via the SELENIUM_REMOTE_URL environment variable (no code changes needed)

In local development, both libraries fall back to launching a local Chrome instance.