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Recipe

Let Claude search and browse the live web

Real-time search, page scraping, and full browser automation — Claude works with what's on the web right now.

15 minutes intermediate 4 connectors for Devs and QA who want a sanity check on a flow without standing up Selenium

What you'll need

Do this, in order

  1. 1

    Add live search

    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.

  2. 2

    Scrape a source

    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.

  3. 3

    Act on a page

    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.

Why this workflow exists

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.

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