OpenDia <img src="opendia-extension/icon-128.png" alt="OpenDia" width="32" height="32">

The open alternative to Dia
Connect your browser to AI models. No browser switching needed—works seamlessly with any Chromium browser including Chrome & Arc.

📺 See it in Action

🚀 What is OpenDia?

OpenDia lets AI models control your browser automatically. The key advantage? It leverages everything you already have—your logged-in accounts, saved passwords, cookies, wallets, and browsing history. No need to start from scratch or switch contexts.

🔑 Use Your Existing Digital Life:

• ✅ Logged-in accounts: Post to Twitter/X, LinkedIn, Facebook with your existing sessions
• ✅ Browser data: Access your bookmarks, history, and saved passwords
• ✅ Extensions & wallets: Use MetaMask, password managers, or any installed extensions
• ✅ Cookies & sessions: Stay authenticated across all your favorite sites
• ✅ Local testing: Perfect for development with Cursor - test with real user sessions

✨ Key Benefits:

• 🔄 Universal AI Support: Works with Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and even local models
• 🎯 Anti-Detection: Specialized bypasses for Twitter/X, LinkedIn, Facebook
• 📱 Smart Automation: AI understands your pages and finds the right elements
• 🛡️ Privacy-First: Everything runs locally, your data stays with you
• ⚡ Zero Setup: Get started with one command

🌐 Browser Support

Works with any Chromium-based browser:

• ✅ Google Chrome
• ✅ Arc Browser
• ✅ Microsoft Edge
• ✅ Brave Browser
• ✅ Opera
• ✅ Vivaldi
• ✅ Any Chromium variant

Perfect for Cursor users who want to automate their local testing and development workflows!

🎬 What You Can Do

Real workflows you can try today:

📰 Content & Social Media

• "Summarize all the articles I read today and post a Twitter thread about the key insights"
• "Find interesting articles related to AI from my bookmarks and create a reading list"
• "Read this article and post a thoughtful comment on the LinkedIn version"
• "Check my recent Twitter bookmarks and summarize the main themes"

📧 Productivity & Research

• "Browse my latest emails and tell me what needs urgent attention"
• "Find all the GitHub repos I visited this week and create a summary report"
• "Extract the main points from this research paper and save them to my notes"
• "Search my browsing history for that article about AI safety I read last month"

🤖 Development & Testing (Perfect for Cursor!)

• "Test my web app's signup flow and take screenshots at each step"
• "Fill out this form with test data and check if validation works"
• "Navigate through my app and check if all the buttons work properly"
• "Use my connected wallet to test this DeFi interface"

🔄 Advanced Automation

• "Open tabs for all my daily news sources and summarize the top stories"
• "Draft replies to my unread messages based on the context"
• "Monitor this webpage and notify me when the content changes"
• "Automatically bookmark interesting articles I'm reading"

⚡ Quick Start

1. Install the Browser Extension

1. Download from releases
2. Go to chrome://extensions/ (or your browser's extension page)
3. Enable "Developer mode"
4. Click "Load unpacked" and select the extension folder

2. Connect to Your AI

For Claude Desktop, add to your configuration:

{
 "mcpServers": {
 "opendia": {
 "command": "npx",
 "args": ["opendia"]
 }
 }
}

For Cursor or other AI tools, use the same configuration or follow their specific setup instructions.

🛠️ Capabilities

OpenDia gives AI models 17 powerful browser tools:

🎯 Smart Page Understanding

• Analyze any webpage - AI automatically finds buttons, forms, and interactive elements
• Extract content intelligently - Get clean text from articles, social posts, or search results
• Understand context - AI knows what type of page it's looking at and how to interact with it

🖱️ Natural Interactions

• Click anything - Buttons, links, menus - AI finds and clicks the right elements
• Fill forms smartly - Works even on complex sites like Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook
• Navigate seamlessly - Go to pages, scroll, wait for content to load
• Handle modern web apps - Bypasses detection on social platforms

📑 Tab & Window Management

• Multi-tab workflows - Open, close, switch between tabs automatically
• Organize your workspace - Let AI manage your browser tabs efficiently
• Coordinate complex tasks - Work across multiple sites simultaneously

📊 Access Your Browser Data

• Bookmarks & History - Find that article you read last week
• Current page content - Get selected text, links, or full page content
• Real-time information - Work with whatever's currently on your screen

🛡️ Anti-Detection Features

• Social media posting - Bypass automation detection on Twitter/X, LinkedIn, Facebook
• Natural interactions - Mimics human behavior to avoid triggering security measures
• Reliable automation - Works consistently even on sites that block typical automation tools

💬 Example Prompts to Try

Once everything is set up, try asking your AI:

Content Creation:

"Read the article on this page and create a Twitter thread summarizing the main points"

Research & Analysis:

"Look through my browser history from this week and find articles about machine learning. Summarize the key trends."

Social Media Management:

"Check my Twitter bookmarks and organize them into categories. Create a summary of each category."

Productivity:

"Open tabs for my usual morning reading sites and give me a briefing of today's top stories"

Development Testing:

"Fill out this contact form with test data and check if the submission works properly"

Personal Assistant:

"Find that GitHub repo I was looking at yesterday about React components and bookmark it for later"

🏗️ How It Works

graph LR
 A[AI Model] --> B[OpenDia Server]
 B --> C[Browser Extension]
 C --> D[Your Browser]
 D --> E[Any Website]

1. You ask your AI to do something browser-related
2. AI calls OpenDia tools to understand and interact with pages
3. OpenDia controls your browser through the extension
4. You get results - AI can see what happened and respond intelligently

🔒 Security & Privacy

Your data stays private:

• ✅ Everything runs locally - No cloud processing of your browsing data
• ✅ You control access - Extension only works when you want it to
• ✅ Open source - Full transparency of what the code does
• ✅ No tracking - We don't collect or store any of your information

Important: This tool requires broad browser permissions to function. Only use with AI models you trust, and in environments where you're comfortable with browser automation.

🤝 Contributing

Love to have your help making OpenDia better!

Quick Development Setup

git clone https://github.com/aaronjmars/opendia.git
cd opendia

# Start the server
cd opendia-mcp
npm install
npm start

# Load extension in your browser
# Go to chrome://extensions/ → Developer mode → Load unpacked: ./opendia-extension

Ways to Contribute

• 🐛 Report bugs via GitHub Issues
• 💡 Share it on social medias
• 🔧 Add new browser capabilities
• 📖 Improve documentation
• 🧪 Test with different AI models

📝 License

MIT License - see LICENSE for details.

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