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The live tab: a remote browser tab you share as a link

Open a real browser tab in another country and use it from any web browser — free on the site, longer from the dashboard or one API call, and a link you can hand to a person.

2026-11-12

Sometimes the quickest way through is a person: someone signs in by hand, answers their own one-time code or captcha, or just looks at what a page shows in another country. The live tab is that: one real browser tab on the fleet that you, or anyone you send the link to, can see and control from an ordinary web browser — then your code takes over the cookies.

What it is

• A real browser tab on cdpfleet, opened on the page and in the country you choose, shown in your web browser: mouse, touch and keyboard, an address bar, back, forward and reload. Typing works in any language, including input methods for Chinese, Japanese and Korean.
• It opens in a new browser tab, in about 0.2–0.6 s, with the first frame 17–70 ms later and typing visible in ~12–64 ms (measured 2026-11-02).
• Anyone with the link can view and control the tab until it closes, so share it only with the person who should use it.

Three ways to open one

• Free, no account: /functions/livetab — up to 3 minutes, closed after a minute without a viewer, one open tab per address.
• The dashboard: Functions → Live tab, with your plan's limits.
• One API call: POST https://cdpfleet.com/v1/functions/livetab with {"url": …, "country": "de"} returns live_url; max_duration (default 10 minutes, up to your plan's session limit) and idle_timeout (default 2 minutes without a viewer) set how long it stays. It holds one thread and is billed per second while open.

Hand it to a person, then carry on in code

• Send live_url to the person who should sign in. When the tab closes, GET /v1/functions/livetab/{livetab_id} returns the final_url and the tab's cookies for 10 minutes — your code loads them and continues as that signed-in user.
• On paid plans the tab can run in a browser and device of your choice (browser, launch, device), the same ones your code uses.
• Building your own viewer: ws_url streams JPEG frames and takes mouse, key, text and navigate messages — the dashboard's live-view protocol.

Get started

• Try it free: open a live tab.
• The API: Live tab in the Functions docs.
• Watching or taking over a session your code launched instead: live view.