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dialog

Answer a native alert, confirm or prompt dialog.

MCP tool dialog
HTTP POST /browser/dialog

action is one of: accept, dismiss, read, send_text. Use read to see the message without answering, accept to confirm, dismiss to cancel, and send_text with text to fill a prompt and accept it.

An open dialog blocks every other command, so if a call fails complaining about an unexpected alert, this is how you clear it.

Parameters

Name Type Required Default Notes
action string no accept
text string no
session_id string yes over HTTP The session_id returned by /browser/open. Required here.
wait_timeout integer no 10

Returns

Field Type Notes
action string What was done with the dialog.
message string The dialog's text, read before it was answered.
url string Current URL after the action.
title string Page title after the action.

Errors

Status Means
400 The request cannot succeed as sent — a missing field, a value that was rejected, or a locator that matched nothing before the wait ran out. Do not retry it unchanged.
401 Missing or wrong bearer token.
404 No such browser session. It ended, the Grid reaped it, or the id was never real. Open a new one and retry.
500 Something failed that this server did not expect.
503 The Grid could not serve this — unreachable, or no free slot for a new browser. Worth retrying after a wait.

Over MCP the same failures arrive as a tool error.

Example

MCP

dialog()

HTTP

curl -X POST $SELENIUM_FLOW/browser/dialog \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
    "session_id": "…"
  }'

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