--- title: Cloudflare Browser Rendering - Headless Browsers for AI Agents description: Headless, programmable web browsers built for AI Agents. Spin up browsers on-demand for screenshots, automation, and web scraping at scale. image: https://www.cloudflare.com/preview.png --- Browser Run ## Headless, programmable web browsers built for AI Agents ### Give your application web browsing capabilities. Spin up a web browser in the cloud on-demand, and control it with your own code or AI-generated code. Take screenshots, extract text, run tests and automate any workflow — even ones with no API to rely on. [ Start building for free ](https://dash.cloudflare.com/sign-up) [ View docs ](https://developers.cloudflare.com/browser-rendering/) **Scale to thousands of browsers** Instant access to a global pool of browsers with low cold-start time — ideal for screenshotting, extracting structured data, or automation at scale. **Global by Default** Runs on Cloudflare's global network, opening browser sessions close to users for better speed and availability. **Easy to Integrate** REST APIs for common actions, and works with Playwright and Puppeteer, the best-in-class browser automation libraries ### Made for Programmable Browsing ![Background Pattern](/static/pattern.png) ### Global Pool of Browsers Deployed on Cloudflare's network. Enables faster cold starts and lower latency across use cases. ![Background Pattern](/static/pattern.png) ### REST API Support Browser Rendering offers easy, fast setup for tasks like screenshotting, extracting content, generating PDFs, snapshotting and capturing structured data with JSON or markdown for AI. ![Background Pattern](/static/pattern.png) ### Supports common browser libraries Playwright & Puppeteer support. Gives developers full control when needed with standard automation tools. ![Background Pattern](/static/pattern.png) ### "Well-behaved" Bot Mode Identifies itself as a bot using cryptographic signatures. Ensures compliant, ethical scraping — distinguishes Cloudflare from competitors that bypass bot protections. ![Background Pattern](/static/pattern.png) #### Ideal for Agentic Workflows You can use Browser Rendering to: [ View docs ](https://developers.cloudflare.com/) Create website thumbnails and social previews using the /screenshot REST API Generate visual previews for websites and social media sharing Power AI agents that need browser-based automation where APIs don't exist Enable AI agents to interact with web pages and extract data Generate PDFs from webpages and HTML content using the /pdf REST API Convert web content to PDF format for documents and reports ### Headless browsers on standby that you can use at scale without any complicated setup Eliminate the need to manage complex browser infrastructure by running browser-based tasks like screenshots and PDF generation on Cloudflare's global network. ![Background Pattern](/static/pattern.png) curl playwright.ts curl 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 ``` curl -X POST 'https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts//browser-rendering/screenshot' \ -H 'Authorization: Bearer ' \ -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \ -d '{ "html": "Hello World!", "screenshotOptions": { "omitBackground": true } }' \ --output "screenshot.png" ``` 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 ``` import { launch, type BrowserWorker } from "@cloudflare/playwright"; interface Env { MYBROWSER: BrowserWorker;} export default { async fetch(request: Request, env: Env) { const browser = await launch(env.MYBROWSER); const page = await browser.newPage(); await page.goto("https://demo.playwright.dev/todomvc"); const TODO_ITEMS = [ "buy some cheese", "feed the cat", "book a doctors appointment", ]; const newTodo = page.getByPlaceholder("What needs to be done?"); for (const item of TODO_ITEMS) { await newTodo.fill(item); await newTodo.press("Enter"); } const img = await page.screenshot(); await browser.close(); return new Response(img, { headers: { "Content-Type": "image/png", }, }); },}; ``` 1 2 3 4 5 6 ``` curl -X 'POST' 'https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts//browser-rendering/markdown' \ -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \ -H 'Authorization: Bearer ' \ -d '{ "url": "https://example.com"}' ``` Generate screenshots Take screenshots of web pages using the REST API or Workers bindings. [See docs](https://developers.cloudflare.com/browser-rendering/rest-api/screenshot-endpoint/). Run Playwright for powering agentic workflows Use Playwright to automate complex browser interactions for AI agents. [See docs](https://developers.cloudflare.com/browser-rendering/platform/playwright/). Retrieve webpage and generate markdown for AI consumption Extract content from web pages and convert to markdown format for AI processing. [See docs](https://developers.cloudflare.com/browser-rendering/rest-api/markdown-endpoint/). Lovable #### " #### We needed a reliable way to capture screenshots at scale, and Cloudflare Browser Rendering solved it with a single API call. It was remarkably easy to implement and handles all our traffic without a hiccup. 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