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Jen Phillips April's avatar

This sounds amazing and you lost me on step 3. I run a PC so this Mac edits code business doesn’t apply, is that correct?

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Kamil Banc's avatar

no problem just copy paste the entire setup instruction including the config file code into claude or chat gpt and ask how to do it on windows. That should adjust the code for you

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Kamil Banc's avatar

Windows Setup Steps

Install NodeJS (if you don't have it):

Go to nodejs.org and download the Windows installer

Run the installer and follow the setup wizard

Restart your computer after installation

Windows Version of the Code

Install Claude Desktop from claude.ai/download

Install the Browser MCP Chrome extension

Add this to your Claude config file (Settings > Developer > Edit Config):

{

"mcpServers": {

"filesystem": {

"command": "npx",

"args": [

"-y",

"@modelcontextprotocol/server-filesystem",

"C:\\Users\\USERNAME\\Desktop",

"C:\\Users\\USERNAME\\Downloads"

]

},

"browsermcp": {

"command": "npx",

"args": [

"@browsermcp/mcp@latest"

]

}

}

}

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Jen Phillips April's avatar

Thanks! I’ll investigate.

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Mike Goitein's avatar

@Kamil Banc - Bringing huge value here in making the most of AI for all the right reasons to enhance a creator’s own superpowers.

Great stuff!

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Kamil Banc's avatar

It’s so powerful, free, and yet most people will never use it :)

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Karo (Product with Attitude)'s avatar

Thank you Kamil! I'm going to try this today! 🙏🏼

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Takim Williams's avatar

This is amazing!

Is the competitor research use case really anything new? As long as ChatGPT has web access it's always been able to do research tasks and put together a competitive analysis, right? Just clarifying what's new here.

Thanks again!

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Kamil Banc's avatar

Great question Takim! With only web access, these tools have limited access to social media platforms, forums, sites that you are logged in to, like Zendesk, Hubspot, Skool. For me, the fact that you can run this from your browser, which already has all the necessary access and cookies set up, is a significant advantage.

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Takim Williams's avatar

Yes! Makes sense, thanks.

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Liam Darmody's avatar

This is fantastic thank you.

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Jenny Ouyang's avatar

This is an awesome walkthrough, now you’ve convinced me to give it a try!

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Barbara Sennrich's avatar

Thank you Kamil, I'm definitely going to try this. Can you please say a bit more about the dedicated browser profile?

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Kamil Banc's avatar

Yes, since this method gives Claude full access to you browser id recommend that you set up a separate chrome browser profile and only log into the services you are comfortable with sharing with your new autonomous friend. Just a standard safety measure.

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Michael's avatar

What kind of subscription for Claude do you use? Anthropic writes a "Max" ist required to use MCP with Claude desktop.

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Kamil Banc's avatar

I made it work on the 20$/m plan but seen people do it with the free one

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Michael's avatar

Ok, thanks. You might wanna add "install node.js" to your article.

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Kamil Banc's avatar

Oh yes you are right, thank you will edit

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Wayan Vota's avatar

I set this up as instructed (on mac) and when I put the "Claude, check my content performance across LinkedIn and Substack. What's working? What's not?" the Claude desktop app says it cannot access the web. It starts to look in my Google Drive, but not online. Why does it no "see" websites? I'm logged into LI and Subscack on Chrome.

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Kamil Banc's avatar

I would use sonnet 4 check that everything except extended thinking and browsermcp is turned off and then prompt: “go to LinkedIn and read my last inbox message, you have access to browser use”

That will tell you if everything is connected.

If not, double check, maybe restart Claude.

Try to keep the promos more specific for browser use and feel free to drop a url at it just make sure web search is off

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Wayan Vota's avatar

Response: I understand you'd like me to check your LinkedIn inbox, but I have an important limitation to clarify: while I can use the browser to navigate websites, I cannot log into your personal accounts or access authenticated content like your LinkedIn inbox, messages, or private analytics data.

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Kamil Banc's avatar

Let me take a stab at it . You can dm me and I’ll help you

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Kamil Banc's avatar

Did you activate the browser extension? You have to click connect

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Wayan Vota's avatar

I uploaded Substack analytics into Google Drive, thinking that Claude could analyze that using your prompt, but it cannot see the folder of posts. It sees Docs I wrote for Substack but not the folder of post/analytics from Substack.

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Wayan Vota's avatar

Yes, both the MCP in Chrome and browserMCP in Claude

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