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description: Connect to Browser Rendering from any environment using the Chrome DevTools Protocol, or use MCP clients for AI-powered browser automation.
title: Browser Rendering adds Chrome DevTools Protocol (CDP) and MCP client support
image: https://developers.cloudflare.com/changelog/post/2026-04-10-browser-rendering-cdp-endpoint/og.png?v=09f2d2bbfdc1ab2e
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April 10, 2026

## Browser Rendering adds Chrome DevTools Protocol (CDP) and MCP client support

[Browser Run](https://developers.cloudflare.com/browser-run/)

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[Browser Rendering](https://developers.cloudflare.com/browser-run/) now exposes the [Chrome DevTools Protocol (CDP)](https://developers.cloudflare.com/browser-run/cdp/), the low-level protocol that powers browser automation. The growing ecosystem of CDP-based agent tools, along with existing CDP automation scripts, can now use Browser Rendering directly.

Any CDP-compatible client, including [Puppeteer](https://developers.cloudflare.com/browser-run/cdp/puppeteer/) and [Playwright](https://developers.cloudflare.com/browser-run/cdp/playwright/), can connect from any environment, whether that is [Cloudflare Workers](https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/), your local machine, or a cloud environment. All you need is your Cloudflare API key.

For any existing CDP script, switching to Browser Rendering is a one-line change:

```js
const puppeteer = require("puppeteer-core");

const browser = await puppeteer.connect({
	browserWSEndpoint: `wss://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/${ACCOUNT_ID}/browser-rendering/devtools/browser?keep_alive=600000`,
	headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${API_TOKEN}` },
});

const page = await browser.newPage();
await page.goto("https://example.com");
console.log(await page.title());
await browser.close();
```

Additionally, MCP clients like Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, and OpenCode can now use Browser Rendering as their remote browser via the [chrome-devtools-mcp ↗︎](https://github.com/ChromeDevTools/chrome-devtools-mcp) package.

Here is an example of how to configure Browser Rendering for Claude Desktop:

```json
{
	"mcpServers": {
		"browser-rendering": {
			"command": "npx",
			"args": [
				"-y",
				"chrome-devtools-mcp@latest",
				"--wsEndpoint=wss://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/<ACCOUNT_ID>/browser-rendering/devtools/browser?keep_alive=600000",
				"--wsHeaders={\"Authorization\":\"Bearer <API_TOKEN>\"}"
			]
		}
	}
}
```

To get started, refer to the [CDP documentation](https://developers.cloudflare.com/browser-run/cdp/).

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