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- Chrome processes your servers
- Dependencies, updates your servers
- Memory, failed sessions your servers
Sessions are free — pay only for traffic
Cloud Browser Platform for Web Automation
Run browser automation in the cloud without managing Chrome instances or browser servers. Connect your existing automation code to remote Chromium and scale workflows when you need them.
- Run automated browser workflows remotely instead of maintaining Chrome on your own servers
- Connect existing Playwright or Puppeteer scripts to cloud browser sessions
- Run parallel tests, monitoring, form filling, and other recurring browser tasks
Automation
The same script.
Someone else's Chrome.
Tests, monitoring checks, form workflows and scheduled jobs run on remote Chromium. Nothing in your code changes except where the browser lives.
Why Use a Cloud Browser for Automation?
Browser automation is easy to start locally. A script launches Chrome, completes a task, and closes the browser. But as workflows grow, the same setup has to handle multiple Chrome processes, dependencies, updates, memory usage, and failed sessions.
A cloud browser for automation moves browser execution to remote infrastructure. Your Playwright or Puppeteer code controls Chromium in the cloud while your own environment stays focused on the application and automation logic.
This approach is useful when tests, monitoring jobs, form workflows, or scheduled scripts need to run regularly or in parallel. Instead of maintaining browser infrastructure for every workload, you can start remote sessions when automation needs them.
Key Browser Automation Use Cases
Browser automation is useful for workflows that require a real browser rather than simple HTTP requests. Remote Chromium can render JavaScript, navigate between pages, interact with UI elements, submit forms, and maintain session state. For QA teams, developers, DevOps engineers, and RPA workflows, this makes it possible to automate complete browser-based processes without running each browser locally. Key benefits include:
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Remote Chromium execution
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Less browser infrastructure to maintain
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Support for parallel workflows
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Integrated proxy connections
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Compatibility with popular automation frameworks
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Free browser sessions — you pay only for proxy traffic
End-to-End Web Application Testing
QA engineers can use remote browsers to test complete user journeys across websites and web applications. An automated test can open a page, click interface elements, enter data, submit a form, wait for a response, and verify the final result. This allows teams to test the application from the same browser environment used for other automated workflows.
Typical scenarios include:
- Regression testing
- Form validation
- Login and account flows
- Navigation testing
- Checking dynamic UI elements
- Testing JavaScript-heavy applications
Moving browser execution to the cloud also reduces the need to run multiple Chrome instances on QA machines or dedicated testing servers.
Form Filling and Repetitive Browser Tasks
Many internal processes still require interaction with a web interface. A browser automation script can handle repetitive steps without requiring an employee to perform every action manually. For example, automation can open a dashboard, navigate between pages, populate fields, submit information, read the pages that come back, and collect the results your process needs.
These workflows can become part of scheduled jobs, internal applications, RPA processes, or backend systems. Because the workflow runs inside Chromium, it can interact with dynamic pages built with frameworks such as React, Vue, and Angular.
Website Availability and UI Monitoring
Traditional uptime monitoring usually checks whether a server returns a valid response. However, an HTTP 200 response does not guarantee that the page works correctly for users.
A cloud browser can perform a deeper check. The automated session can load the full page, execute its JavaScript, wait for important elements, and verify that the expected content appears.
This approach can be used to monitor:
- Landing pages
- Signup and login flows
- Forms
- Dashboards
- Checkout processes
- Critical UI elements
Teams can run these checks regularly without keeping dedicated browsers active on local infrastructure.
Run Multiple Browser Automation Sessions in Parallel
Local browser automation can become resource-intensive as the number of simultaneous jobs increases. Every Chromium instance requires processing power and memory, which can quickly create infrastructure bottlenecks.
Floppydata Cloud Browser moves browser execution away from your local machine or application server. Your automation connects to remote Chromium sessions when they are required, which makes it easier to run concurrent testing, monitoring and scheduled tasks at the same time.
When different locations are required, sessions can also work with Floppydata proxy infrastructure.
Automate with Playwright, Puppeteer, Python, and Node.js
Moving browser execution to the cloud should not require rebuilding your existing automation stack. Floppydata Cloud Browser works with the automation frameworks that speak the Chrome DevTools Protocol:
Connect, don't rebuild
Existing scripts can connect to remote Chromium instead of launching a browser on the same machine. Your application can continue using familiar browser automation actions such as navigation, selectors, clicks, keyboard input, waiting for elements, and JavaScript execution.
import { chromium } from 'playwright';const browser = await chromium.connectOverCDP(connectUrl);const page = browser.contexts()[0].pages()[0];await page.goto('https://example.com/login');await page.fill('#email', user.email);await page.click('button[type="submit"]');await page.waitForSelector('.dashboard');import puppeteer from 'puppeteer-core';const browser = await puppeteer.connect({ browserWSEndpoint: connectUrl });const page = (await browser.pages())[0];await page.goto('https://example.com/login');await page.type('#email', user.email);await page.click('button[type="submit"]');await page.waitForSelector('.dashboard');from playwright.sync_api import sync_playwrightwith sync_playwright() as p: browser = p.chromium.connect_over_cdp(connect_url) page = browser.contexts[0].pages[0] page.goto('https://example.com/login') page.fill('#email', email) page.click('button[type="submit"]') page.wait_for_selector('.dashboard')const res = await fetch('https://api.floppydata.net/v2/browser/sessions', { method: 'POST', headers: { 'X-Api-Key': process.env.FLOPPY_API_KEY }, body: JSON.stringify({ proxy: { type: 'residential' } }),});const { id, connectUrl } = await res.json();One changed line — connectOverCDP instead of launch.
Combine Cloud Browser Automation with Floppydata Proxies
Browser automation often needs more than remote Chromium. Some workflows also require sessions from specific countries, regions, or different IP addresses. Floppydata combines Cloud Browser with its proxy infrastructure, allowing both components to work within the same environment. Depending on the workflow, you can use residential, mobile, or datacenter proxies.
This can be useful when automated tests or monitoring processes need to verify how a website behaves from different locations. For example, teams can check localized content, regional pages, language versions, or other location-dependent website behavior.
Cloud Browser itself is free. Sessions run on Floppydata proxies, and you pay only for the proxy traffic they consume, drawn from your Floppydata balance. There is no runtime fee and no per-session fee, so a session starts as soon as your balance covers its traffic.
Move Browser Automation to the Cloud
Running a few local browser scripts is simple. Maintaining browser infrastructure becomes much more complicated when automation grows across testing, monitoring, RPA, and scheduled business processes.
A cloud browser for automation removes much of that infrastructure work by running Chromium remotely while keeping control in your existing code.
Connect with Playwright or Puppeteer from Python or Node.js, configure the proxy environment you need, and run automated browser workflows without maintaining a separate fleet of browser servers.
Session flow
- Your automation code
Playwright · Puppeteer - Floppydata
- Remote Chromium up to 100 at once
- Target website
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