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collection: browser-automation
collection_name: Browser Automation & Scraping
digest_count: 4
canonical: https://releases.sh/collections/browser-automation/digest
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# Browser Automation & Scraping weekly digests

- **[Firecrawl edges out Browserbase's WebMCP in a week of agent-first tooling](https://releases.sh/collections/browser-automation/digest/2026-06-15)** — week of 2026-06-15 (4 releases)
  > Firecrawl launched a specialized Research Index for AI/ML literature search that sets a new benchmark for recall, while Browserbase's Stagehand shipped WebMCP support, letting pages expose typed tools directly to agents.
- **[Stagehand puts vision into extract and lowers the barrier to local automation](https://releases.sh/collections/browser-automation/digest/2026-06-01)** — week of 2026-06-01 (5 releases)
  > Stagehand 3.5.0 ships a screenshot-aware extract mode for visual content, and the browse CLI now steers new users toward local-first automation. Meanwhile, Crawlee v3.17.0 hardens sitemap discovery and fixes a Puppeteer page-binding bug.
- **[Monitor-driven automation finds its footing](https://releases.sh/collections/browser-automation/digest/2026-05-25)** — week of 2026-05-25 (4 releases)
  > Firecrawl introduced a smart monitoring endpoint that cuts LLM token usage by up to 90%, while Stagehand added visual context to its extraction command and the Apify SDK patched a critical run-kwargs omission.
- **[Firecrawl parses documents, Stagehand slims context, replays go live](https://releases.sh/collections/browser-automation/digest/2026-05-11)** — week of 2026-05-11 (7 releases)
  > Firecrawl's v2.10 adds a document parsing endpoint and lockdown mode, Browserbase ships embeddable session replay streaming, and Stagehand 3.4 introduces `ignoreSelectors` to trim agent context bloat.

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