Recipe
Real-time search, page scraping, and full browser automation — Claude works with what's on the web right now.
for Devs and QA who want a sanity check on a flow without standing up Selenium
Hand-checked recipe · curated by Ilya Gindin
15 minutes
to run
intermediate
difficulty
4
connectors
Say to your AI
Install a web-search MCP (Exa or Tavily). Find the three most recent posts about MCP security and summarize each in one line.
You'll get: Three current results with one-line takeaways and links.
Say to your AI
Use Firecrawl to pull this docs page into clean markdown and extract just the configuration options.
You'll get: A tidy markdown extract of the relevant section.
Say to your AI
Use Playwright to open our staging site, run the signup flow with a test email, and screenshot each step.
You'll get: Step-by-step screenshots and a pass/fail on whether signup completed.
You're done when
Claude stops being frozen at its training cutoff — it can find current information, read real pages, and operate a browser.
A model alone can’t see today’s web. Search servers (Exa, Tavily, Brave) give it current results; scrapers (Firecrawl) turn messy pages into clean text; browser drivers (Playwright, Browserbase) let it actually click through a flow. Combine search to find, scrape to read, and browser to act — that covers almost every “go look at the web for me” task.