@browserkit/adapter-google-discover

Google Discover feed adapter for browserkit — returns personalised articles from your Google Discover feed, running in Pixel 5 mobile emulation so the feed is available even before the desktop rollout reaches your account.

Requirements

• A Google account with Discover enabled (available in US, UK, Canada, Australia, NZ, Germany)
• browserkit installed and running

Login

One-time setup — run this once to authenticate:

browserkit login google-discover

This opens a visible Chrome browser in Pixel 5 mobile emulation. Log into your Google account normally. The session is saved to a persistent profile directory. Close the browser when done.

CAPTCHA note: Google may ask you to verify you're human during login. Complete the verification manually — the browser is visible for exactly this reason. After a successful login, subsequent headless runs reuse the saved session without prompting again (unless the session expires).

Tools

Tool	Input	Description
get_feed	count: 1–30	Personalised Discover articles: title, source, age, URL, topic, thumbnail

Plus 5 auto-registered management tools from the framework: health_check, set_mode, take_screenshot, get_page_state, navigate.

Article shape

interface Article {
  title: string;
  source: string;       // publisher e.g. "BBC News"
  age: string;          // e.g. "3 hours ago"
  url: string;          // article URL
  topic?: string;       // topic label if shown e.g. "Technology"
  imageUrl?: string;    // thumbnail URL if present
}

Configuration

// browserkit.config.js
import { defineConfig } from "@browserkit/core";

export default defineConfig({
  adapters: {
    "@browserkit/adapter-google-discover": {
      port: 3849,
      deviceEmulation: "Pixel 5",  // required — Discover is a mobile-first surface
    },
  },
});

browserkit start

Connect your MCP client to http://127.0.0.1:3849/mcp.

Why mobile emulation?

Google Discover is still rolling out to desktop browsers and is not available for all accounts. By running the browser in Pixel 5 emulation, google.com serves the full mobile Discover feed regardless of desktop rollout status. The deviceEmulation config field in browserkit triggers this automatically — your other adapters (LinkedIn, HN, etc.) are unaffected.

Selector stability

Google uses dynamically-generated class names that change frequently. This adapter uses data-hveid attributes and semantic HTML (h3, a[href]) which are far more stable — Google uses them for internal analytics. If the feed stops returning results, run:

health_check

The selector health report will show which selectors are no longer found on the live page, making it easy to identify what changed and update src/selectors.ts.

Tests

pnpm test                # unit + MCP protocol + reliability (no auth required)
pnpm test:integration    # live Discover feed (requires google-discover login)