- Live stream the browser remotely.
- Perform remote browser isolation for security and automation.
- Run your browsers anywhere and connect to them from anywhera.
- Isolate your network from the risks of the public internet by running browsers in a remote machine.
- Connect to Chrome headless with a Browser User Interface
- July 18 2020
- New client web app bundling improves load speed of browser UI.
- Remove UI icons from .gitignore because they're no longer added on install, but instead are always in the repo.
- New docker builds and releases incorporating these changes.
- July 18 2020 Bug fix on master: Remove UI icons from .gitignore because they're no longer added on install, but instead are always in the repo.
- July 15 2020 Run or install as global via
npx remoteview@latestornpm i -g remoteview@latest(Working!) - July 14 2020 New Binary releases!. Binaries now come with default args. Platforms available: Mac, Win, and Nix.
- July 13 2020 New Docker Hub image with latest changes: dosyago/browsergapce:2.1
This is a feature-complete, clientless, remote browser isolation product, in HTML/JavaScript that runs right in your browser. Integrated with a secure document viewer (available on request), this can provide safe remote browser isolation at deployments of any size. It also saves you bandwidth (on the last hop, anyway).
You see that? ☝️ That's a browser running in your browser. All those tabs and UI, that's all BrowserGap. It's sending you pixels from a remote browser, running anywhere.
You can use this repo to play with a browser running remotely in the cloud, rather than on your own device. Useful for security and automation.
If you're a developer you can include a "BrowserView" in any other web application (for non-commercial use only).
If you're like to deploy this in your org, or for a for-profit project, write me: [email protected] Or keep an eye out for the cloud service, coming soon. Official government use OK without purchase, as long as deployment is done in-house (or using Dosyago Corporation, not by other contractors, nor part of a paid deployment). If you're in government and you'd like to deploy this and want help, contact me for help or to discuss a deployment contract.
By default (unless you provide command line arguments) it runs on port 8002.
Sure, other companies might have bigger brands and bigger sales budgets, but this is open-source. You can vet the code, in the open, and so can anyone. You know there's nothing hidden inside. Plus, future updates have all the benefit of open-source software.
There's a lot of competition out there, BrowserGap art more lovely and more temperate. Here's a selection of the most notable:
- WEBGAP INC. Fully hosted and managed solution. Aiming to cover the nexus of "low cost, widespread use", starting at just 5USD a head. I have not evaluated it, and there's no demo and no source code. But the website is beautiful! And it's seed funded by a Royal Highness in the Al-Saud family 😎 how cool! Co-founder Guise Bule, a tech-marketing veteran based stateside who describes himself as having "built some of the world's first remote browser platforms" at the NSA, blogs profusely about RBI and has recently joined the ranks of some regional Security and tech "think tanks", including Singapore's ITSEC and Silicon Valley Bank's Brains Trust.
- McAfee nee Light Point Security, the veterna cybersecurity incumbent acquired Light Point, a nascent (but also long-lived) RBI startup in 2020, which was founded around 2012 by ex-members of the US Intelligence Community, Beau Adkins and Zuly Gonzalez. Again, there's no source-code and no demo and I have not evaluated the software, though it seems it is a highly user-focused web application, that is described in their PR copy as a clientless pure HTML/JavaScript RBI solution. The founders of the Maryland-based startup surely know what they are talking about.
- Isoolate founded by Turkish ex military-tech contractors, is headquartered in the United States, and staffed with around 10 people around the world (including New Zealand!), develops a Chrome Extension (and possibly other software) that assists the client choose whether they want to access a page locally, or remotely, aiming to provide a seamless and highly-configurable experience.
The main advantages of BrowserGap over any of these are:
- Free (for non-commercial or governmental use when self-hosted) and open-source. You can pay for install, or maintenance, or a managed cloud service (bring your own cloud, also OK!).
- Fully clientless (runs in your browser, nothing to download, but also available as download if you want to run locally easily).
- Not hiding anything. You can use the software now, and see how it works. No need for us to grant you lengthy demos to evaluate. You can try it yourself whenever you like.
Probably. If you can think of it, you can probably do it.
Glone this repo
git clone https://github.com/dosyago/BrowserGap.git
Then run npm i in the repository directory.
or Install from npm
npm i -g remoteview@latest
Remember to follow the install prompt
Pre-requisites: Windows with Google chrome already instaled.
If you're on Git Bash (or Cygwin, or Mingw) you might have trouble using npm i -g remoteview.
Make sure you configure npm
npm config set script-shell "C:\\Program Files\\git\\bin\\bash.exe"
Also, don't worry about running "setup_machine" at the prompt, because it uses apt-get which won't work on Windows anyway.
Normally, a Windows device with chrome already installed won't need to run "setup_machine" anyway, which is a script to install things like fonts, graphics libraries and some utilities useful for running headless Chrome in linux.
Pre-requisites: Windows, Mac OS or Linux with Chrome already installed.
If you use a binary, make sure you have Google chrome installed. You might also need to run the setup_machine.sh script, to make sure you have all dependencies of Google chrome headless installed, but probably not if you have Windows.
Get it on docker hub, and see instructions below.
Even tho RV uses headless Chrome, it attempts to conceal that fact. Sometimes, a service knows (such as Google, Google always knows). But othertimes the service cannot tell. For some tests of headless, visit the following when using RV:
BrowserGap is a platform for live streaming the browser, with full interactivity. It lets you plug in to a local or remote, even a headless browser, and fly it as if it's a normal browser.
You can stream a remote browser with special cusotmizations to your clients to side step the restrictions of regular browsers. You can use it to build rich experiences based on the browser that are not possible using Flash, Browser Extensions or regular Web Driver protocol.
For business enquiries, please contact Cris
BrowserGap is a HTML/CSS/JavaScript "ground control" or "remote control" for a browser. It also looks and works just like a browser, but it runs in your browser and controls another browser.
Try for free at https://start.cloudbrowser.xyz
The Server is in Tokyo - I tried to strike a balance between access to APAC, EMEA and AMERICAS.
Formerly BrowserGap Community Edition. Currently called BrowserGap, and lets you interactively live-stream a remote browser.
This work is released under an OSS license, and is © Cris Stringfellow. All my own work.
For business inquiries, mail me
Around 30,000 source lines of code (see stats folder)
First set up the machine with git, and node (including nvm and npm) using the below:
If you want to speed up install and it hangs on processing triggers for man-db you can remove all your man pages (WARNING), with:
sudo apt-get remove -y --purge man-db
sudo apt update && sudo apt -y upgrade
sudo apt install -y curl git wget
udo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -y upgrade
sudo apt -y install curl nodejs certbot vim
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_10.x -o nodesource_setup.sh
sudo bash ./nodesource_setup.sh
sudo apt -y install nodejs build-essential
curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.33.11/install.sh -o install_nvm.sh
bash ./install_nvm.sh
source $HOME/.profile
source $HOME/.nvm/nvm.sh
nvm install --lts
sudo apt autoremove
npm i -g serve nodemon pm2 npm npx
sudo npm i -g serve nodemon pm2 npm npxThen install and run BrowserGap from source:
git clone https://github.com/dosyago/BrowserGap
cd BrowserGap
npm i
npm startNote: running from docker image means you have no sound
You can pull an existing image from docker hub (already 
docker pull dosyago/browsergapce:2.1And then run it
curl -o chrome.json https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dosyago/BrowserGap/master/chrome.json
sudo su -c "echo 'kernel.unprivileged_userns_clone=1' > /etc/sysctl.d/00-local-userns.conf"
sudo su -c "echo 'net.ipv4.ip_forward=1' > /etc/sysctl.d/01-network-ipv4.conf"
sudo sysctl -p
sudo docker run -d -p 8002:8002 --security-opt seccomp=$(pwd)/chrome.json dosyago/browsergapce:2.0You can also build a docker image from source yourself.
Set up the machine (as above in the Set up section), then
use clone the repo and install docker (build_docker.sh will do that for you) and build yourself an image:
git clone https://github.com/dosyago/BrowserGap
cd BrowserGap
npm i
./buld_docker.sh
./run_docker.sh And visit http://<your ip>:8002 to see it up.
Coming here from Awesome Chrome DevTools?
Take a look at the Zombie Lord connection and Translate Voodoo CRDP.
Just connect your browser to http://localhost:5002 from the machine you run it on.
Just run PPTR on the same machine as this and connect to http://localhost:5002