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Browser Run gets a dashboard Playground, so you can try it out without code!

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Heya, it's me, Shii-chan! Today I found some good news that makes it way easier to play around with Browser Run!

Cloudflare Changelog developers.cloudflare.com

What was announced?

Over on Cloudflare's Changelog, they announced a new "Playground" for Browser Run, built right into the dashboard. With the Playground, you can try Quick Actions against a live browser without creating a Worker, installing an SDK, or deploying any code first.

The story so far

Until now, trying out Browser Run's Quick Actions meant setting up a Worker, installing an SDK, and deploying code before you could even see the output. Even just wanting to peek at a result took some setup work.

What changes

With the Playground, you just type in a target URL or raw HTML and run a Quick Action right away. You can tune viewport and page-load settings on screen, preview the output, and if you like what you see, copy the exact same request as working code to drop into your own project.

Dive Deep

Here's what you can do in the Playground:

  • Capture visuals as screenshots or PDFs
  • Generate multiple output formats in one request with the snapshot endpoint
  • Extract HTML, Markdown, links, or scraped data
  • Extract structured data with AI, using a prompt and an optional JSON Schema

You can also fine-tune the settings: choose desktop, laptop, tablet, mobile, or custom viewport sizes, set the browser scale, pick page-load conditions, set timeouts, and wait for selectors before running a request.

Selecting "Show Code" turns the same request into cURL, TypeScript SDK, Python, or Workers Binding code. For a screenshot request, the Workers Binding version looks like this:

await env.BROWSER.quickAction("screenshot", {
  url: "https://developers.cloudflare.com",
  viewport: { width: 1920, height: 1080 }
});

Keep in mind that requests made in the Playground incur Browser Run charges, and AI extraction adds Workers AI charges on top. To try it out, just go to Browser Run in the Cloudflare dashboard and select Playground.

Wrap-up

  • Browser Run now has a Playground built into the dashboard
  • Try Quick Actions with no Worker, no SDK install, and no code deployment needed
  • Supports screenshots, PDFs, HTML/Markdown/link extraction, and AI-powered structured data extraction
  • Fine-tune viewport and page-load settings, then copy the same request as cURL, TypeScript SDK, Python, or Workers Binding code with "Show Code"
  • Running requests costs Browser Run charges (plus Workers AI charges for AI extraction)

This is a great fit for anyone who wants to try out browser automation or scraping, or for engineers who just want to quickly prototype with Browser Run!

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