Remote Browser
A browser that runs in the cloud or on a remote server and is controlled over the network, used for scalable automation, scraping, and isolation.
Full Definition
A remote browser is a browser instance running on a remote server (rather than the local machine) and controlled via a network protocol like the Chrome DevTools Protocol (CDP) over WebSocket. Tools like Playwright and Puppeteer can connect to a remote browser endpoint using a WebSocket URL. Services like Browserless.io, Bright Data's Scraping Browser, and Oxylabs' Web Unblocker provide managed remote browser infrastructure that includes built-in proxy rotation, CAPTCHA solving, and bot-detection evasion. Remote browsers enable horizontally scalable scraping without managing local browser processes.
