The Dark Arts of Web Automation: Teaching Agents to Use Websites Like Humans — Corey Gallon, Rexmore
Corey Gallon demonstrates how to build AI agents that automate web browsers through Chrome DevTools Protocol — they can click, type, and navigate the web like a human.
His method uses a loop: the agent observes the page, takes an action, verifies the result. He shows three levels of complexity: simple forms, buttons requiring genuine click events, and finally CAPTCHA challenges like Cloudflare Turnstile and reCAPTCHA v2. A key finding: CLI tools are faster than MCP servers (under one minute versus eight minutes) — this matters when CAPTCHAs expire over time. Gallon received a warning from OpenAI for this research and demonstrates only code running on his own infrastructure.
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