Andreas Emer

🚨 Someone just solved the biggest bottleneck in AI agents. And it's a 12MB binary. It's called Pinchtab. It gives any AI agent full browser control through a plain HTTP API. Not locked to a framework. Not tied to an SDK. Any agent, any language, even curl. No config. No setup. No dependencies. Just a single Go binary. Here's why every existing solution is broken: → OpenClaw's browser? Only works inside OpenClaw → Playwright MCP? Framework-locked → Browser Use? Coupled to its own stack Pinchtab is a standalone HTTP server. Your agent sends HTTP requests. That's it. Here's what this thing does: → Launches and manages its own Chrome instances → Exposes an accessibility-first DOM tree with stable element refs → Click, type, scroll, navigate. All via simple HTTP calls → Built-in stealth mode that bypasses bot detection on major sites → Persistent sessions. Log in once, stays logged in across restarts → Multi-instance orchestration with a real-time dashboard → Works headless or headed (human does 2FA, agent takes over) Here's the wildest part: A full page snapshot costs ~800 tokens with Pinchtab's /text endpoint. The same page via screenshots? ~10,000 tokens. That's 13x cheaper. On a 50-page monitoring task, you're paying $0.01 instead of $0.30. It even has smart diff mode. Only returns what changed since the last snapshot. Your agent stops re-reading the entire page every single call. 1.6K GitHub stars. 478 commits. 15 releases. Actively maintained. 100% Open Source. MIT License.