drissionpage-mcp 0.5.6

Professional browser automation for Codex, Claude Code, and MCP clients powered by DrissionPage

DrissionPage MCP Server

Professional browser automation for Codex, Claude Code, and MCP clients powered by DrissionPage

Official Repositories: GitHub | GitCode

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🧭 Client Setup Navigation

• Install + screenshot walkthrough
• Codex CLI/IDE quick setup
• Codex CLI/IDE integration example
• Claude Code setup
• Cursor setup
• Claude Desktop setup
• Troubleshooting

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🚀 What is DrissionPage MCP?

DrissionPage MCP Server is a local Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that brings DrissionPage browser automation tools to Codex CLI/IDE, Claude Code, Claude Desktop, and other MCP clients.

Unlike screenshot-based approaches, it provides structured, deterministic web automation through 52 tools plus MCP Resources/Prompts that leverage the efficiency of DrissionPage, a high-performance browser automation framework.

🌟 Why Choose DrissionPage MCP?

• LLM-Optimized: Works with structured data instead of requiring vision models
• Deterministic: Reliable element selection with CSS/XPath normalization for LLM-friendly selectors
• Fast & Lightweight: Built on DrissionPage's efficient engine with minimal overhead
• Type-Safe: Full type hints and Pydantic validation for all tools
• Open-source Friendly: Includes compatibility notes, troubleshooting, and CI checks for maintainable contributions
• Easy Integration: Simple pip install + Codex TOML or MCP JSON configuration

✅ Quality and Real-World Validation

DrissionPage MCP is backed by a strict regression suite and browser-backed scenario checks:

• Strict automated tests: unit, protocol, schema snapshot, response-contract, resource/prompt, release-metadata, security-policy, browser-integration, and coverage checks run in CI.
• 95% coverage floor: CI enforces the current 95% coverage threshold and uploads coverage reports.
• Real browser verification: Chrome/Chromium-backed integration tests exercise the same MCP tools exposed to clients.
• Scenario validation: the playground MCP Lab covers realistic forms, commerce pages, social feeds, timelines, dynamic waits, iframe cases, and recovery paths without depending on public demo websites.

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⚡ First Success Path

# Install from PyPI
python -m pip install -U drissionpage-mcp

# Verify package and environment
drissionpage-mcp --version
drissionpage-mcp doctor

Then add the Codex or MCP client configuration below and restart your client.

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📦 Setup in Codex CLI/IDE (30 seconds)

Codex supports local stdio MCP servers through config.toml; the CLI and IDE extension share the same MCP configuration.

1. Edit Codex configuration:

   • User-level: ~/.codex/config.toml
   • Project-level: .codex/config.toml inside a trusted project

2. Add this configuration:

   [mcp_servers.drissionpage]
   command = "drissionpage-mcp"
   startup_timeout_sec = 20
   tool_timeout_sec = 60
   

3. Restart Codex. In the TUI, run /mcp; from a shell, run codex mcp list.

For Claude Code, Claude Desktop, and other JSON-based MCP clients, see Integration Examples.

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🎯 Quick Examples

Navigate and Screenshot

"Visit https://example.com and take a screenshot for me"

Search and Extract

"Go to Wikipedia, search for Python, and get the first paragraph"

Form Automation

"Fill out the form at https://httpbin.org/forms/post and submit it"

Data Scraping

"Get the top 10 news headlines from news.ycombinator.com"

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🛠️ 46 Powerful Tools + MCP Resources/Prompts

🌐 Navigation (4 tools)

• page_navigate - Navigate to any URL; optionally open it in a new tab with new_tab or return an observe change summary
• page_go_back / page_go_forward - Browser history
• page_refresh - Reload current page

🗂️ Tab Operations (3 tools)

• tab_list - List open browser tabs with stable MCP tab IDs
• tab_switch - Switch to a tab returned by tab_list
• tab_close - Close one tab without closing the whole browser

🎯 Element Interaction & Extraction (13 tools)

• element_find - Find one element by CSS selector or XPath; bare selectors like h1 are treated as CSS
• element_find_all - Extract bounded repeated elements with text, attributes, and recommended selectors
• element_click - Click any element
• element_type - Input text into elements
• element_upload_file - Upload files from DP_MCP_UPLOAD_ROOT to input[type=file]
• element_scroll_into_view - Bring an element into the viewport before acting
• element_hover - Hover an element to trigger menu/tooltip states
• element_select - Select an option by value, text, or index
• element_check - Check or uncheck checkbox/radio controls
• element_get_text - Get element or page text
• element_get_attribute - Get an HTML attribute
• element_get_property - Get a live DOM property such as an input value
• element_get_html - Get element or page HTML

🧾 Form Operations (1 tool)

• form_inspect - Inspect forms and controls with labels, selectors, requirements, options, and safe optional values

📸 Page Operations (11 tools)

• page_screenshot - Capture an inline full-page or viewport screenshot
• page_screenshot_save - Save a screenshot under DP_MCP_SCREENSHOT_ROOT
• page_snapshot - Return a bounded page outline with headings, links, buttons, inputs, forms, and selector recommendations
• page_observe - Return a compact page fingerprint with URL, title, counts, visible text samples, active element, and recent console summary
• page_evaluate - Run bounded JavaScript in the current page and return a JSON-safe result
• page_scroll - Scroll the page by direction or to a position
• keyboard_press - Send keys to the active element/page
• page_resize - Adjust browser window
• page_click_xy - Click by coordinates
• page_close - Close browser
• page_get_url - Get current URL

🧱 Frame / Shadow DOM (5 tools)

• frame_list - List iframe/frame contexts without changing global frame state
• frame_snapshot - Inspect a selected iframe with bounded outline data
• frame_find - Find an element inside a selected iframe
• shadow_find - Find one element inside an open shadow root
• shadow_find_all - Extract repeated elements inside an open shadow root

🍪 Cookies & Storage (4 tools)

• browser_cookies_get - Read normalized cookies with values redacted by default
• storage_get - Read localStorage/sessionStorage by key or as a map
• storage_set - Set one localStorage/sessionStorage item without echoing the value
• storage_clear - Clear one storage key or an entire storage area

🧪 Debug / Observability (1 tool)

• page_console_logs - Read bounded browser console messages with level filtering, cursor pagination, and limits

⏱️ Wait Operations (4 tools)

• wait_for_element - Wait for element to appear (with timeout)
• wait_for_url - Wait until the current URL contains text
• wait_until - Wait for observable conditions such as clickable, hidden, stable, text, or URL matches
• wait_time - Delay execution

🧩 MCP Resources and Prompts

• Resources: drissionpage://session/summary, drissionpage://session/history, drissionpage://session/state, drissionpage://session/config, drissionpage://guide/model-usage, drissionpage://page/current, drissionpage://tools/catalog, drissionpage://policy/summary
• Prompts: drissionpage_mcp_usage_playbook, browser_navigate_and_summarize, browser_extract_structured_data, browser_fill_form_safely, browser_debug_page_issue

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📚 Documentation

Guide	Description
README.md	Installation, tools, and architecture
docs/compatibility.md	Supported Python, DrissionPage, MCP, and browser versions
docs/tool-contract.md	Public MCP tool names, inputs, annotations, and response shape
docs/troubleshooting.md	Doctor command, browser startup, and client setup fixes
CHANGELOG.md	Release notes

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🏗️ Architecture

Built with clean, modular design:

DrissionMCP/
├── drissionpage_mcp/
│   ├── cli.py              # Entry point
│   ├── server.py           # MCP server
│   ├── context.py          # Browser management
│   ├── response.py         # Response formatting
│   ├── tab.py              # Page operations
│   └── tools/              # 46 automation, tab/frame/shadow, page-understanding, form, debug, and session-state tools
├── tests/                  # Unit tests
└── playground/             # MCP Lab business-scenario playground

Key Principles:

• ✅ Type-safe Pydantic models for all tools
• ✅ Async/await throughout
• ✅ Clean separation of concerns
• ✅ Comprehensive error handling
• ✅ Unit and protocol test coverage for core tool registration/response behavior

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🔧 Configuration

Codex CLI / IDE (Recommended)

[mcp_servers.drissionpage]
command = "drissionpage-mcp"
startup_timeout_sec = 20
tool_timeout_sec = 60

# Optional browser/runtime environment variables:
# [mcp_servers.drissionpage.env]
# CHROME_PATH = "/custom/path/to/chrome"
# DP_HEADLESS = "1"

You can also add it with the Codex CLI:

codex mcp add drissionpage -- drissionpage-mcp

If Codex/Cursor/Claude Desktop is launched from a GUI and cannot see your shell PATH or virtualenv, use the absolute Python executable instead:

[mcp_servers.drissionpage]
command = "/absolute/path/to/python"
args = ["-m", "drissionpage_mcp.cli"]
startup_timeout_sec = 20
tool_timeout_sec = 60

JSON MCP Clients

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "drissionpage": {
      "command": "drissionpage-mcp"
    }
  }
}

Advanced JSON Setup

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "drissionpage": {
      "command": "drissionpage-mcp",
      "args": ["--log-level", "DEBUG"],
      "env": {
        "CHROME_PATH": "/custom/path/to/chrome"
      }
    }
  }
}

Absolute-Python fallback for GUI clients:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "drissionpage": {
      "command": "/absolute/path/to/python",
      "args": ["-m", "drissionpage_mcp.cli"],
      "env": {
        "CHROME_PATH": "/custom/path/to/chrome",
        "DP_HEADLESS": "1"
      }
    }
  }
}

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📋 Requirements

• Python 3.10+ (3.11+ recommended)
• Chrome or Chromium browser
• Any MCP-compatible client: Codex CLI/IDE, Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code, etc.

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🧪 Testing

Verify Installation

# Environment diagnostics; add --launch-browser for a browser startup check
drissionpage-mcp doctor
drissionpage-mcp doctor --launch-browser

# Source checkout tests
python -m pip install -e ".[dev]"
python -m pytest tests/

# Coverage report (CI enforces the current 95% floor and uploads coverage.xml)
python -m pytest tests/ --cov=drissionpage_mcp --cov-report=term-missing --cov-report=xml

# Browser-backed MCP Lab scenario checks
DP_HEADLESS=1 python playground/run_mcp_lab.py --all --json

GitHub Actions runs lint, unit, protocol, package, browser integration, and coverage jobs. Codecov is configured through codecov.yml and the CI workflow.

Try It Out

# No-browser MCP registry check
python playground/run_mcp_lab.py --case registry

# Local deterministic site check
python playground/run_mcp_lab.py --case site

# Browser-backed form inspection scenario
DP_HEADLESS=1 python playground/run_mcp_lab.py --case form-inspect

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🚀 Use Cases

✅ Automated Testing - Test web applications ✅ Data Scraping - Extract structured data from websites ✅ Form Automation - Fill and submit forms ✅ Monitoring - Check for updates or changes ✅ Screenshot Verification - Capture and verify page state ✅ Content Analysis - Analyze web content programmatically

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🐛 Troubleshooting

Tools Not Loading?

drissionpage-mcp --version

Should output the installed package version, for example drissionpage-mcp 0.5.6.

Browser Issues?

# Check browser installation
which google-chrome    # Linux
which chromium         # macOS

Codex / MCP Client Not Finding Server?

• Codex: run codex mcp list; in the TUI, run /mcp
• JSON clients: verify config file path and JSON syntax
• Restart Codex or your MCP client after changes
• Check logs: drissionpage-mcp --log-level DEBUG

See docs/troubleshooting.md for the complete troubleshooting guide.

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📊 Project Status

Component	Status
Core Features	✅ Complete
Testing	✅ Strict unit/protocol/schema checks plus browser-backed scenarios
Documentation	✅ Setup, compatibility, troubleshooting, and public tool contracts
Package	✅ PyPI metadata and build checks
Status	🟡 Beta; real browser behavior depends on local Chrome/Chromium and target sites

Version: 0.5.6 | License: Apache 2.0 | Maintained: ✅ Active

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🗺️ Roadmap

Current (v0.5.6)

• 52 core automation, tab/frame/shadow, page-understanding, form-inspection, workflow, network-listener, session-state, and console-observability tools with removed alias surface
• stdio MCP server integration
• Doctor diagnostics for local setup
• Stable JSON mirror, structuredContent, and typed per-tool MCP outputSchema
• Structured recovery hints in error.details.hints for common failures
• Balanced page_snapshot output so link-heavy pages still expose controls and forms
• form_inspect read-only form inventory with labels, selectors, requirements, options, and safe optional values
• Tab management with tab_list, tab_switch, tab_close, and page_navigate(new_tab=true)
• Observable actions with page_observe, page_evaluate, wait_until, and optional observe=true changes on navigation, click, and type
• Console observability with page_console_logs, console summary in page_observe, and console change fields in observe=true
• Workflow helpers with browser_open_and_snapshot, browser_extract_links, and form_fill_preview
• Network listener beta with network_listen_start, network_listen_wait, and network_listen_stop for HTTP/XHR/Fetch observation
• File upload, scrolling, hover, select/check, keyboard, iframe, shadow DOM, cookie, and storage tools for DrissionPage 4.x
• Chrome sandbox remains enabled by default; DP_NO_SANDBOX=1 is reserved for restricted container/root environments
• Redacted session history resource and response size metadata for bounded outputs
• Opt-in local safety policy for navigation and screenshot paths
• Resources, prompts, eval harness, compatibility, and troubleshooting documentation
• PyPI distribution

Future (v0.6+)

• Promote workflow/network beta contracts toward 0.6.0 after field testing
• Optional session persistence beyond redacted state summaries
• Proxy support
• Network interception

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📖 Integration Examples

Codex CLI / IDE

[mcp_servers.drissionpage]
command = "drissionpage-mcp"
startup_timeout_sec = 20
tool_timeout_sec = 60

Verify with:

codex mcp list

Claude Code

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "drissionpage": {
      "command": "drissionpage-mcp"
    }
  }
}

Config file: ~/.config/claude-code/mcp_settings.json (macOS/Linux) or %APPDATA%\claude-code\mcp_settings.json (Windows).

Cursor

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "drissionpage": {
      "command": "drissionpage-mcp"
    }
  }
}

Config file: ~/.cursor/mcp.json (global) or .cursor/mcp.json (project). You can also add it from Cursor Settings → Tools & MCPs → New MCP Server.

Claude Desktop

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "drissionpage": {
      "command": "drissionpage-mcp"
    }
  }
}

Once connected, the tools load automatically:

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🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome!

1. Fork the repository
2. Create a feature branch
3. Make focused changes
4. Run the relevant checks
5. Submit a pull request

See CONTRIBUTING.md for setup, validation, and compatibility expectations.

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🔒 Security

• Runs locally in your environment
• Uses a local browser that may have access to authenticated sessions, cookies, downloads, and page content
• Can open and interact with any site reachable from the local machine
• Does not require external API credentials

Best Practices:

• Use a dedicated browser profile for sensitive workflows
• Review MCP client prompts before allowing actions on authenticated or production systems
• Respect website terms of service, robots.txt, and rate limits
• See SECURITY.md for reporting and safe-usage guidance

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📄 License

Licensed under Apache License 2.0 - see LICENSE

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• ⭐ Starring on GitHub
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• 💬 Leaving feedback or suggestions
• 🐛 Reporting issues to help improve

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🆕 Latest Version: v0.5.6

Released on 2026-07-07. This release adds workflow helpers, network listener beta, and session config visibility while staying on DrissionPage 4.x:

• New workflow helpers: browser_open_and_snapshot, browser_extract_links, and form_fill_preview reduce repeated client tool chains for page understanding, link discovery, and no-submit form prefill.
• New network listener beta: network_listen_start, network_listen_wait, and network_listen_stop observe HTTP/XHR/Fetch packets without interception or response mocking.
• New drissionpage://session/config resource reports redacted browser/profile configuration such as DP_USER_DATA_PATH, browser path, headless, sandbox, and policy state.
• New file upload support via element_upload_file; upload paths must be under DP_MCP_UPLOAD_ROOT and results only expose file names.
• New action primitives: page_scroll, element_scroll_into_view, element_hover, keyboard_press, element_select, and element_check.
• New iframe and shadow DOM read-only tools: frame_list, frame_snapshot, frame_find, shadow_find, and shadow_find_all.
• New cookie/storage tools: browser_cookies_get, storage_get, storage_set, and storage_clear; cookie values are redacted by default.
• New drissionpage://session/state resource summarizes current-tab cookie names and storage keys without returning secret values.
• drissionpage-mcp doctor now flags DrissionPage 5.x as unsupported and keeps the package range on DrissionPage>=4.1.1.4,<5.
• Chrome sandbox remains enabled by default; DP_NO_SANDBOX=1 remains reserved for restricted container/root environments.
• Existing page-understanding, observable-action, console, tab, form, and recovery-hint tools remain compatible; observable changes still include console_errors_added; bounded outputs keep meta.approx_tokens.
• Failure payloads include machine-readable error.details.hints; browser startup hints still point to drissionpage-mcp doctor --launch-browser, CHROME_PATH, and DP_HEADLESS.
• MCP_ARGUMENT_INVALID continues to protect strict schemas and point clients toward exact snake_case field names.
• The top-level JSON_RESULT envelope, strict input schemas, and typed outputSchema contracts remain unchanged; the public registry has 52 tools.