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Steel + Puppeteer Starter This template shows you how to use Steel with Puppeteer to run browser automations in the cloud on Val Town. It includes session management, error handling, and a basic example you can customize. This starter templated was ported from this one on Github . Quick start The script shows you how to: Create and manage a Steel browser session Connect Puppeteer to the session Navigate to a website (Hacker News in this example) Extract data from the page (top 5 stories) Handle errors and cleanup properly View your live session in Steel's session viewer To run it: Get your free Steel API key at https://app.steel.dev/settings/api-keys Add it to your Val Town Environment Variables as STEEL_API_KEY Click Fork on this val Click Run on this val Writing your automation Find this section in the script: // ============================================================ // Your Automations Go Here! // ============================================================ // Example automation (you can delete this) await page.goto('https://news.ycombinator.com'); // ... rest of example code You can replace the code here with whatever automation scripts you want to run. Configuration The template includes common Steel configurations you can enable: const session = await client.sessions.create({ useProxy: true, // Use Steel's proxy network solveCaptcha: true, // Enable CAPTCHA solving sessionTimeout: 1800000, // 30 minute timeout (default: 15 mins) userAgent: 'custom-ua', // Custom User-Agent }); Error handling The template includes error handling and cleanup: try { // Your automation code } finally { // Cleanup runs even if there's an error if (browser) await browser.close(); if (session) await client.sessions.release(session.id); } Support Steel Documentation API Reference Discord Community