Changelog #004

Wooooooooooooo!! We got some new updates we’re pumped to share.

⭐ New

npx create-steel-app

The easiest way to get started with Steel just dropped!

Run npx create-steel-app to spin up a full project based on any of the recipes in the Steel cookbook repo.

Note: This works with pure Python projects too! As long as you have npm installed, you’ll be able quick spin up projects like Browser-use and Playwright-python on Steel!

Multitab Support

We shipped support for multiple tabs via the debug URL. This comes with support for embedding specific pages as well as a full browser view that displays all tabs with full interactivity. Essentially a fully embeddable browser UI can now exist right in your app. Light/dark mode supported ;)

Documentation Link

Embed and view session recordings

We’ve published an endpoint (v1/sessions/:id/events) and docs around how you can simply embed and view session recordings inside your app.

Here’s a code snippet of how to create an embeddable session replay component:

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import rrwebPlayer from 'rrweb-player';
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import 'rrweb-player/dist/style.css'; // important for styling of the player
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// Once you've fetched the events
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const events = await client.sessions.events(session.id)
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// Create player element
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const playerElement = document.getElementById('player-container');
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// Initialize the player with events
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const player = new rrwebPlayer({
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  target: playerElement,
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  props: {
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    events: events,
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    width: 800,  // Width of the player
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    height: 600, // Height of the player
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    autoPlay: true,
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    skipInactive: true  // Skip periods of inactivity
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  }
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});

Documentation Link

CUA x Steel

OpenAI’s Computer-use agent just dropped and it’s awesome! We’ve added a whole bunch of resources across the Steel universe to demo how the CUA agent can control a Steel browser!

• Cookbook: Simple CUA Loop (Python)
• Cookbook: Simple CUA Loop (Node)
• Coming soon to Surf.new 🌊

🔧 Bugfixes/Improvements

• Python/Node SDKs are out of beta and official starting on version 0.0.1 🥂 This update comes with all the afore mentioned capabilities incorporated into the SDKs.
• Lots of improvements and fixes to the Surf UI
• Added guide to docs on how to re-use contexts between sessions for carrying over things like authenticated state (docs)
• Patches some source of memory leak errors causing slower session times

🏡 Housekeeping

• Carti dropped 🗣️

💖 First-time contributors

Special thanks to @PaperBoardOfficial for making some key PRs and issues on Surf 💖

As always, thanks for testing out the Steel beta. We really look forward to more of your feedback and continuing to build with this awesome, curious, and supportive community.