Browser Automation — AI That Uses Your Browser
Key Points
- ✓Playwright-based web control
- ✓Vision-enabled screenshot analysis
- ✓Form filling and clicking
- ✓Multi-step workflows
- ✓Data extraction from any website
- ✓Headless or visible mode
How It Works
- 1Enable browser plugin in config
- 2Give task in plain English
- 3Hermes navigates, clicks, fills forms
- 4Returns structured results or screenshots
Real-World Use Cases
Web Research and Data Extraction
Extract structured data from any website — pricing tables, product listings, public records. Hermes navigates pagination, handles lazy-loaded content, and returns clean structured JSON without you writing a single line of scraper code.
Automated Form Filling
Fill out long government forms, job applications, or repeated data entry tasks. Hermes reads the form structure, maps your data to the right fields, submits, and confirms — handling CAPTCHAs where possible via vision.
UI Testing Automation
Write browser test scenarios in plain English. Hermes clicks through your application, verifies expected states, captures screenshots of failures, and reports results — acting as a QA engineer who never gets bored.
Competitive Intelligence Monitoring
Schedule Hermes to check competitor pricing, feature pages, or job listings weekly. It navigates, extracts, compares with previous snapshots, and notifies you only when something meaningful changes.
Under the Hood
Hermes browser automation is built on Playwright, giving it access to Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit engines. The vision layer enables screenshot analysis mid-workflow — Hermes can take a screenshot, analyze what's on screen with a vision model, and decide the next action based on visual context rather than just DOM structure. This makes it resilient to sites that hide meaningful structure in canvas elements, SVGs, or dynamically rendered content that defeats CSS selectors.
The browser runs in headless mode by default for server deployments, but can be configured to run visibly for debugging or when sites require human-like interaction patterns. A stealth layer handles common bot-detection heuristics — realistic mouse movement, human-paced typing, proper header profiles. For authenticated workflows, Hermes manages browser sessions and cookies across tasks, so you authenticate once and subsequent automations reuse the session.
Browser automation tasks integrate cleanly with the rest of the Hermes tool ecosystem. A single task can: navigate to a URL, extract data, pass it to code execution for analysis, write results to a file, and send a summary via Telegram — all in one seamless workflow. The Playwright integration also supports multi-tab workflows, file uploads, and handling browser dialogs, covering the full range of realistic web interaction patterns.