搞自动化和爬虫的兄弟可以把之前的方案扔了。

GitHub 上突然爆火了一个开源项目 Index（由 AI 开发者平台 Laminar 团队打造），直接把网页浏览器变成了可调用的 API。这玩意本质上是一个极度丝滑的“AI 浏览器 Agent”，你在终端输一句人话，它就能像真人在浏览器里点按、抓数据、填表单，甚至跨站点联动办完一整套复杂流程。在 WebVoyager 跑分里直接飙到了 92% 的惊人准确率。

一句命令就能跑：pip install 之后敲 index run 就能直接在终端调用。

能直接用本地 Chrome：带 –local-chrome 参数，自动复用你已登录的账号状态。

顶配视觉推理引擎：原生支持 Claude 3.7 Sonnet、Gemini 2.5 Pro 等顶尖多模态大模型。

全程会话回放与排错：自带开箱即用的可视化录屏与步骤 Trace 监控。

自动抓取并生成表格：一句话搞定“去网站抓数据并新建 Google Sheets 写入”。

开源协议：Apache-2.0 GitHub 传送门：https://github.com/lmnr-ai/index

lmnr-ai/index

Source: https://github.com/lmnr-ai/index

Index

Index is a state-of-the-art open-source browser agent that autonomously executes complex web tasks. It turns any website into an accessible API and can be seamlessly integrated with just a few lines of code.

• Powered by reasoning LLMs with vision capabilities.
  • Gemini 2.5 Pro (really fast and accurate)
  • Claude 3.7 Sonnet with extended thinking (reliable and accurate)
  • OpenAI o4-mini (depending on the reasoning effort, provides good balance between speed, cost and accuracy)
  • Gemini 2.5 Flash (really fast, cheap, and good for less complex tasks)
• pip install lmnr-index and use it in your project
• index run to run the agent in the interactive CLI
• Supports structured output via Pydantic schemas for reliable data extraction.
• Index is also available as a serverless API.
• You can also try out Index via Chat UI.
• Supports advanced browser agent observability powered by open-source platform Laminar.

prompt: go to ycombinator.com. summarize first 3 companies in the W25 batch and make new spreadsheet in google sheets.

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/2b46ee20-81b6-4188-92fb-4d97fe0b3d6a

Documentation

Check out full documentation here

Quickstart

Install dependencies

pip install lmnr-index 'lmnr[all]'

# Install playwright
playwright install chromium

Setup model API keys

Setup your model API keys in .env file in your project root:

GEMINI_API_KEY=
ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=
OPENAI_API_KEY=
# Optional, to trace the agent's actions and record browser session
LMNR_PROJECT_API_KEY=

Run Index with code

import asyncio
from index import Agent, GeminiProvider
from pydantic import BaseModel
from lmnr import Laminar
import os

# to trace the agent's actions and record browser session
Laminar.initialize()

# Define Pydantic schema for structured output
class NewsSummary(BaseModel):
    title: str
    summary: str

async def main():

    llm = GeminiProvider(model="gemini-2.5-pro-preview-05-06")
    agent = Agent(llm=llm)

    # Example of getting structured output
    output = await agent.run(
        prompt="Navigate to news.ycombinator.com, find a post about AI, extract its title and provide a concise summary.",
        output_model=NewsSummary
    )
    
    summary = NewsSummary.model_validate(output.result.content)
    print(f"Title: {summary.title}")
    print(f"Summary: {summary.summary}")
    
if __name__ == "__main__":
    asyncio.run(main())

Run Index with CLI

Index CLI features:

• Browser state persistence between sessions
• Follow-up messages with support for “give human control” action
• Real-time streaming updates
• Beautiful terminal UI using Textual

You can run Index CLI with the following command.

index run

Output will look like this:

Loaded existing browser state
╭───────────────────── Interactive Mode ─────────────────────╮
│ Index Browser Agent Interactive Mode                       │
│ Type your message and press Enter. The agent will respond. │
│ Press Ctrl+C to exit.                                      │
╰────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

Choose an LLM model:
1. Gemini 2.5 Flash
2. Claude 3.7 Sonnet
3. OpenAI o4-mini
Select model [1/2] (1): 3
Using OpenAI model: o4-mini
Loaded existing browser state

Your message: go to lmnr.ai, summarize pricing page

Agent is working...
Step 1: Opening lmnr.ai
Step 2: Opening Pricing page
Step 3: Scrolling for more pricing details
Step 4: Scrolling back up to view pricing tiers
Step 5: Provided concise summary of the three pricing tiers

Running CLI with a personal Chrome instance

You can use Index with personal Chrome browser instance instead of launching a new browser. Main advantage is that all your existing logged-in sessions will be available.

# Basic usage with default Chrome path
index run --local-chrome

Use Index via API

The easiest way to use Index in production is with serverless API. Index API manages remote browser sessions, agent infrastructure and browser observability. To get started, create a project API key in Laminar.

Install Laminar

pip install lmnr

Use Index via API

from lmnr import Laminar, LaminarClient
# you can also set LMNR_PROJECT_API_KEY environment variable

# Initialize tracing
Laminar.initialize(project_api_key="your_api_key")

# Initialize the client
client = LaminarClient(project_api_key="your_api_key")

for chunk in client.agent.run(
    stream=True,
    model_provider="gemini",
    model="gemini-2.5-pro-preview-05-06",
    prompt="Navigate to news.ycombinator.com, find a post about AI, and summarize it"
):
    print(chunk)
    

Browser agent observability

Both code run and API run provide advanced browser observability. To trace Index agent’s actions and record browser session you simply need to initialize Laminar tracing before running the agent.

from lmnr import Laminar

Laminar.initialize(project_api_key="your_api_key")

Then you will get full observability on the agent’s actions synced with the browser session in the Laminar platform. Learn more about browser agent observability in the documentation.

Made with ❤️ by the Laminar team