The Browser Extract Tool
Extract text or structured fields from the current page by selector or schema so an agent turns a rendered web page into clean, usable data — no brittle scraping script required.
Half the work lives behind a browser
Critical data and actions sit on web pages and third-party systems with no clean API. Without the ability to navigate, click, extract, and call endpoints, an agent is cut off from a huge share of the real work — and doing it by hand doesn’t scale.
No API, no access
Many systems only expose a web UI an agent can’t reach.
Manual gathering
People copy-paste from pages and PDFs because nothing else can.
Brittle scripts
Hand-written scrapers break the moment a page changes.
Ungoverned egress
Uncontrolled outbound web calls are a security and compliance risk.
Browser Extract, without the risk
Capability
What it does
Pull structured data out of a live page.
it extracts text or structured fields from the current page by selector or target schema.
Assignable to any agent
How it works
Predictable, inspectable behavior
Designed to be reliable.
extraction runs against the rendered DOM and returns clean structured output, so an agent gets usable data from pages that expose no API — logged and governed.
Every call logged
Governance
Private, governed, on-premise
Runs inside your perimeter.
Browsing and web calls run through a governed, on-premise gateway with allow-listing and full request logging, so agents reach only the sites and endpoints you permit — and every action is auditable.
Per-tenant, logged
Parameters
The browser_extract tool accepts these inputs when an agent calls it. Required inputs are flagged.
default: false Optional Return page content as Markdown instead of fields.
How the Browser Extract tool works in practice
Browser Extract is a browser & web action tool you assign to a VDF AI agent. It extracts text or structured fields from the current page by selector or target schema. Its hallmarks — Extract, Structured, Rendered — let an agent rely on it as a dependable step in a larger task rather than a brittle one-off script.
Under the hood, extraction runs against the rendered DOM and returns clean structured output, so an agent gets usable data from pages that expose no API — logged and governed. Every call is scoped to the requesting tenant and written to an audit log, so the capability is safe to run inside a regulated, on-premise environment — the same governance model behind every VDF AI tool.
Teams reach for Browser Extract when they need to handle data capture, content ingest, and monitoring. It rarely works alone — pair it with Browser Snapshot, Browser Scroll, and PDF Extract to build a complete, governed workflow, then compose those steps into an on-premise VDF AI Network.
Where Browser Extract pays back
Data capture
Turn a listing or table into structured records.
Content ingest
Pull article text as clean Markdown.
Monitoring
Extract a value to track over time.
API-less integration
Read data from systems with no API.
Assigned to agents, orchestrated as networks
On VDF AI, an industry’s use cases map to agents, and you assign tools like this one to those agents. Compose multiple agents into a governed, on-premise network.
What changes after you assign it
Questions about the Browser Extract tool
What is the Browser Extract tool?
It extracts text or structured fields from the current page by selector or target schema. Assigned to a VDF AI agent, it runs under role-based policy with full audit logging so the capability is safe to use in production.
Can it return whole-page content?
Yes. Set as_markdown to true to get clean readable content, or use selectors/schema for specific fields.
How is this different from the web crawler?
Extract pulls from the current live, rendered page in an interactive session; the crawler fetches and extracts across many pages of a site.
What inputs does the Browser Extract tool need?
It has no strictly required inputs, and optionally accepts selectors, schema, and as_markdown. Each parameter is validated when an agent calls the tool, and the full call is logged for audit.
Which tools pair well with Browser Extract?
Browser Extract is commonly assigned alongside Browser Snapshot, Browser Scroll, and PDF Extract. On VDF AI you compose several tools and agents into a single governed, on-premise network.
Does it run on-premise?
Yes. Like every VDF AI tool, it can run on-premise or in your sovereign cloud, scoped per user and audit-logged, so your data never leaves your perimeter.
How do agents use it?
You assign the tool to an agent under a role-based policy; the agent calls it as one step in a task, and several agents and tools can be orchestrated together as a governed VDF AI Network.
Assign Browser Extract to these agents
These VDF AI agents can be assigned this tool. Open an agent to see the full toolkit it can run.
Tools that work well alongside this one
Where this tool delivers value
Put Browser Extract to work
See the Browser Extract tool assigned to an agent and orchestrated in a governed, on-premise network.