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REST quick actions for one-offs, CDP websockets for long automations

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REST quick actions for one-offs, CDP websockets for long automations: Pick the right Steel interface for the job: REST quick actions for stateless one-offs, a CDP websocket via Playwright or Puppeteer for long-running automation.

Pick the right Steel interface for the job: REST quick actions for stateless one-offs, a CDP websocket via Playwright or Puppeteer for long-running automation. Mixing them up is the classic mistake - polling REST for a 10-minute workflow, or holding a session open for a single screenshot. And if you need the whole thing inside your own VPC, the self-hosted steel-browser build is the same API surface under Apache-2.0.

Context: Steel API notes: the Cloud REST API at api.steel.dev/v1 launches and manages cloud browser sessions and runs stateless quick actions (scrape, screenshot, pdf, search), while long-running automation connects to a per-session Chrome DevTools Protocol websocket driven with Playwright, Puppeteer, or Selenium. The same surface ships self-hosted as steel-browser under Apache-2.0.

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Source: Published skill Original query: "REST quick actions for one-offs, CDP websockets for long automations" Key terms: actions, automations, long, offs, quick, rest, websockets

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REST quick actions for one-offs, CDP websockets for long automationsPick the right Steel interface for the job: REST quick actions for stateless one-offs, a CDP websocket via Playwright or Puppeteer for long-running automation. Mixing them up is the classic mistake - polling REST for a 10-minute workflow, or holding a session open for a single screenshot. And if you need the whole thing inside your own VPC, the self-hosted steel-browser build is the same API surface under Apache-2.0.Read skill →One-shot scrape? Use quick actions, not a session - and set base_url for self-hostOne-shot scrape? Use quick actions, not a session - and set base_url for self-host: Do not spin up a stateful session for a one-shot scrape - the /scrape, /screenshot, and /pdf quick-action endpoints exist for exactly that and skip session management entirely.Read skill →

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