A Browserless alternative that writes and maintains the scraper for you.
Browserless hands you a hosted headless browser. That is genuinely useful, but you still drive it: you write the Puppeteer or Playwright script, parse the HTML, handle the anti-bot, and keep it all working as the site changes. Haunt is a level up from that. Send a URL and a plain-English prompt, get clean JSON back, and let the rendering, the anti-bot and the parsing be our problem, not yours.
The short version
Haunt does one job well. No script to write, no selectors to maintain. You describe what you want and get JSON. The browser, the blocks and the parsing are handled for you.
If that is the job you have, it is the less fiddly tool for it.
No scraper to write or babysit.
A hosted browser solves one part of the problem and leaves the rest to you: the automation code, the extraction logic, and the endless upkeep when a page changes. Haunt removes that whole layer. You give it a URL and a plain-English prompt, and it returns the JSON, with grounding checks so it never invents a field that was not on the page.
Pay only when it works
Browser-time pricing bills the session whether or not you got usable data out of it. Haunt does not charge for a call that cannot return data. A blocked page costs you nothing and gives you a clear reason instead.
The differences that actually change your day.
Honest comparison, only the axes that matter when you are choosing between us.
| Haunt | Browserless | |
|---|---|---|
| Who writes the scraper | Nobody. Plain-English prompt in, clean JSON out. | You do. It gives you the browser, you write and maintain the automation. |
| Anti-bot and parsing | Handled for you, with a clear reason when a page can't be read. | Your responsibility inside your own script. |
| Blocked or empty sessions | Free. You pay only when data comes back. | Session time is billed whether or not you got usable data. |
Browserless details from browserless.io, checked 8 July 2026. If anything is out of date, tell us and we will correct it. Honest comparisons only.
An honest no beats a confident fake yes.
The failure that hurts most is the silent one. A page is blocked, and instead of saying so, a tool hands back an empty or invented result that poisons everything your agent does next. Haunt refuses to return data it cannot find on the page. That is the whole point of it.
Built for agents, not scripts
Haunt ships as an MCP server as well as a REST API, so an agent in Claude or another runtime calls it as a native tool. No automation to write, no page content kept after the call.
Point it at a page that's been giving you trouble.
One API call, or one MCP tool. 1,000 free credits, no card. If it can't read the page it tells you and charges you nothing. That is the whole pitch.