Stagehand

Write browser automations in natural language with act, extract, and observe.

Stagehand is an open-source library for writing browser automations in natural language using act, extract, and observe calls. The Steel integration drives Stagehand against a Steel cloud session, so you can replace fragile selectors with instructions like "click the login button" or "extract the top 3 stories". Same API in TypeScript or Python.

Good fit for research, scraping, and form workflows.

Requirements

  • Steel API Key: Active Steel subscription
  • OpenAI API Key: Stagehand's default model provider
  • Runtime: Node.js 20+ or Python 3.10+

Connect Steel to Stagehand

Pass Steel's CDP URL as localBrowserLaunchOptions.cdpUrl:

Typescript
import { Stagehand } from "@browserbasehq/stagehand";

import Steel from "steel-sdk";



const client = new Steel({ steelAPIKey: STEEL_API_KEY });

const session = await client.sessions.create({});



const stagehand = new Stagehand({

  env: "LOCAL",

  localBrowserLaunchOptions: {

    cdpUrl: `${session.websocketUrl}&apiKey=${STEEL_API_KEY}`,

  },

  model: { modelName: "openai/gpt-5", apiKey: OPENAI_API_KEY },

});

await stagehand.init();

Full runnable starter: Steel + Stagehand recipe →

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