Browser To API
Turn a website's observable HTTP traffic into a best-effort OpenAPI 3.1 spec by...
Install
npx skills add browserbase/skills --skill browser-to-api -g -a claude-code -y- Repository
- browserbase/skills3.7k
- Category
- Engineering
- Updated
- 8d ago
- License
- MIT
- Context cost
- Mediumabout 2,236 tokens
- Runs scripts
- Yes, review before use
What it does
Turn a website's observable HTTP traffic into a best-effort OpenAPI 3.1 spec by analyzing a `browser-trace` capture. Use when the user wants to discover/extract API endpoints from a browser session, build an OpenAPI doc from network traffic, or document a third-party site's XHR/fetch surface for client integration.
Browser to API
Replay-driven API discovery. Consume a browser-trace capture, pair its CDP request / response events, templatize observed URLs, infer JSON schemas from samples, and emit an OpenAPI 3.1 document plus a human-readable coverage report.
This skill does not capture traffic. It is purely offline post-processing on top of browser-trace's cdp/network/*.jsonl buckets. The two skills compose:
browser-trace → .o11y/<run>/cdp/network/{requests,responses}.jsonl
browser-to-api → .o11y/<run>/api-spec/index.html + openapi.yaml + client.mjs
When to use
- The user wants an OpenAPI document for a third-party or undocumented website API.
- The user has a
browser-tracerun and wants endpoints + schemas extracted from it. - The user is building a client/SDK against a site that doesn't publish a spec.
- The user wants a coverage report showing which flows would broaden the spec.
If the user wants to capture traffic, send them to browser-trace first.
Two-step workflow
1. Capture with browser-trace (and optionally bodies via browse network on)
# Local example against an existing debuggable Chrome target
TARGET=9222
node ../browser-trace/scripts/start-capture.mjs "$TARGET" my-site
browse open about:blank --cdp "$TARGET"
browse network on # capture request/response bodies
browse open https://example.com
# ...drive whatever flows you want covered...
# Snapshot the bodies dir BEFORE turning capture off (the temp dir is shared
# per-session, so subsequent `browse network on` runs would mix your bodies
# with whatever a future capture writes if you skip this step).
cp -r "$(browse network path | jq -r .path)" .o11y/my-site/cdp/network/bodies/
browse network off
node ../browser-trace/scripts/stop-capture.mjs my-site
node ../browser-trace/scripts/bisect-cdp.mjs my-site
