MCP-Puppeteer-Linux
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Automate web browsers on Linux using Puppeteer. Enables LLMs to interact with web pages, take screenshots, and execute JavaScript.
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- Author
- phialsbasement
- Categories
- Web Scraping, Automation, Developer Tools
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Setup
Install MCP-Puppeteer-Linux in your MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, and others).
Repository: https://github.com/phialsbasement/MCP-Puppeteer-Linux
Follow the installation instructions in the repository README, then restart your MCP client.
This fork adds automatic detection and configuration for Linux display servers:
- Automatic X11/Wayland detection
- Dynamic environment variable configuration
- Support for various desktop environments (GNOME, KDE, etc.)
- Fallback mechanisms and robust error handling
- XWayland compatibility
- puppeteer_navigate
- Navigate to any URL in the browser
- Input:url(string)
- Capture screenshots of the entire page or specific elements
- Inputs:
- name(string, required): Name for the screenshot
- selector(string, optional): CSS selector for element to screenshot
- width(number, optional, default: 800): Screenshot width
- height(number, optional, default: 600): Screenshot height
- Click elements on the page
- Input:selector(string): CSS selector for element to click
- Hover elements on the page
- Input:selector(string): CSS selector for element to hover
- Fill out input fields
- Inputs:
- selector(string): CSS selector for input field
- value(string): Value to fill
- Select an element with SELECT tag
- Inputs:
- selector(string): CSS selector for element to select
- value(string): Value to select
- Execute JavaScript in the browser console
- Input:script(string): JavaScript code to execute
The server provides access to two types of resources:
- Console Logs(console://logs)
- Browser console output in text format
- Includes all console messages from the browser
- PNG images of captured screenshots
- Accessible via the screenshot name specified during capture
- Browser automation with Linux display server support
- Automatic X11/Wayland detection and configuration
- Console log monitoring
- Screenshot capabilities
- JavaScript execution
- Basic web interaction (navigation, clicking, form filling)
{ "mcpServers": { "puppeteer": { "command": "npx", "args": ["ts-node", "/path/to/index.ts"] } } }
To install Puppeteer Linux for Claude Desktop automatically viaSmithery:
npx -y @smithery/cli install @PhialsBasement/mcp-puppeteer-linux --client claude
git clone https://github.com/PhialsBasement/MCP-Puppeteer-Linux.git
The server automatically detects and configures the appropriate display environment:
- Detects Wayland sessions viaWAYLAND_DISPLAY
- Configures necessary environment variables:
- WAYLAND_DISPLAY
- QT_QPA_PLATFORM
- GDK_BACKEND
- MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND
- XDG_SESSION_TYPE
- Fallback for traditional X11 sessions
- Handles X11-specific variables:
- DISPLAY
- XAUTHORITY
This MCP server is licensed under the MIT License. This means you are free to use, modify, and distribute the software, subject to the terms and conditions of the MIT License. For more details, please see the LICENSE file in the project repository.
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