pinchtab

name: pinchtab description: Use to crawl websites without needing stealth mode (use camoufox-cli for anti-detect)

PinchTab

Browser automation CLI. 12MB Go binary, uses real Chrome.

Server

Install and run as a background service: pinchtab daemon install && pinchtab daemon start

Crawl

~/.claude/skills/pinchtab/scripts/crawl.sh <url1> [url2] ...

Strips noise (scripts, styles, nav, ads, hidden elements), unwraps links inline, and returns clean text. Uses the default profile (persisted logins). Output saved to PINCHTAB_CRAWL_OUTPUT_DIR if set.

Page Interaction

Read references/interaction.md when you need to click, fill forms, or interact with page elements.

Key Concepts

• Profiles store cookies, sessions, local storage. Default profile at ~/.pinchtab/profiles/default/.
• Sessions are CLI auth tokens for tab context. Created with pinchtab session create --agent-id <id>.
• Always create a session before browser commands: export PINCHTAB_SESSION=$(pinchtab session create --agent-id myagent)

Reference

• Interaction
• Snapshot Refs
• Commands
• Profiles