#what are the recommended web browsing skills/mcp

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lavish canyon
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im looking for a web browsing cli/skill/mcp that can re use my existing logged in sessions.

fierce badgeBOT
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Just checking the docs so I don’t make up a bad recommendation.

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Yeah, the best fit is OpenClaw’s built-in browser with an existing-session profile, not web_fetch.

If you want to reuse your real logged-in browser session:

openclaw browser --browser-profile user start
openclaw browser --browser-profile user tabs
openclaw browser --browser-profile user snapshot --format ai

user attaches to your real signed-in Chrome session via Chrome DevTools MCP and reuses your open tabs/cookies/login state.

If you use Brave/Edge/non-default Chromium profile, make a custom profile like:

{
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  browser: {
    profiles: {
      brave: {
        driver: "existing-session",
        attachOnly: true,
        userDataDir: "~/Library/Application Support/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser"
      }
    }
  }
}

Then use --browser-profile brave.

A few gotchas:

  • best when OpenClaw runs on the same machine as the browser