@memberjunction/remote-browser-browserbase

The Browserbase backend driver for the MemberJunction Remote Browser channel.

Browserbase is the richest Remote Browser backend: a browser-as-a-service that exposes a CDP connect endpoint, a hosted live-view with human takeover, and a first-party AI-control harness (Stagehand — act / extract / observe). This package contributes the BrowserbaseRemoteBrowser driver that the channel resolves for the “Browserbase” provider metadata row.

How trivial the driver is

All Remote Browser backends drive the page identically over CDP — the shared @memberjunction/remote-browser-cdp kit owns that entire control path (action translation, capability gating, screencast, human takeover, Connect/Disconnect, teardown). A driver subclasses BaseCdpRemoteBrowserProvider and fills in just one hook:

protected async AcquireSession(ctx): Promise<{ CdpEndpoint: string; Backend: ICdpSessionBackend }>

BrowserbaseRemoteBrowser.AcquireSession calls the client’s CreateSession and returns its CDP endpoint plus a small ICdpSessionBackend:

Backend hook	Browserbase mapping
GetLiveViewUrl()	the hosted live-view URL from CreateSession
InvokeNativeAIControl(intent)	client.Act(...) → Stagehand act/extract/observe, mapped to RemoteBrowserActionResult
Release()	client.EndSession(...)

Capabilities

Mirrors the “Browserbase” seed row’s SupportedFeatures: NativeAIControl (Stagehand), LiveView, HumanTakeover, ScreenStreaming, Stealth, ProxyEgress, SessionRecording, PersistentContext, MultiTab, FileDownloads, CaptchaSolving (plus RawCdpControl).

The injectable client seam

All Browserbase I/O goes through IBrowserbaseClient, so this package builds and unit-tests with no network, no real SDK, and no API keys:

export interface IBrowserbaseClient {
    CreateSession(opts): Promise<{ SessionId: string; CdpEndpoint: string; LiveViewUrl: string }>;
    EndSession(sessionId: string): Promise<void>;
    Act(sessionId: string, intent: string): Promise<{ Success: boolean; CurrentUrl?: string; Detail?: string }>;
}

The default factory throws until you bind a real one — production must opt in explicitly:

import { BrowserbaseRemoteBrowser } from '@memberjunction/remote-browser-browserbase';

BrowserbaseRemoteBrowser.SetClientFactory((config) => new MyBrowserbaseClientAdapter(config));

Production binding

Bind IBrowserbaseClient to the official @browserbasehq/sdk plus Stagehand:

• CreateSession → Browserbase.sessions.create(...) (session id + connectUrl CDP endpoint + debuggerFullscreenUrl live-view).
• EndSession → Browserbase.sessions.update(id, { status: 'REQUEST_RELEASE' }).
• Act → a Stagehand page.act(...) / page.extract(...) / page.observe(...) invocation.

Declare @browserbasehq/sdk as an optional dependency wherever the production factory is bound — none of the SDK types leak into this package.

Install & build

npm install          # from the repo root
cd packages/AI/RemoteBrowser/Providers/Browserbase
npm run build
npm run test