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Selenium
Browser automation framework and ecosystem
Selenium automates browsers. That's it! What you do with that power is entirely up to you. Primarily it is for automating web applications for testing purposes, but is certainly not limited to just that. Boring web-based administration tasks can (and should) also be automated as well. If you want to create robust, browser-based regression automation suites and tests, scale and distribute scripts across many environments, then you want to use Selenium WebDriver, a collection of language specific bindings to drive a browser - the way it is meant to be driven. If you want to create quick bug reproduction scripts, create scripts to aid in automation-aided exploratory testing, then you want to use Selenium IDE; a Chrome and Firefox add-on that will do simple record-and-playback of interactions with the browser. If you want to scale by distributing and running tests on several machines and manage multiple environments from a central point. -
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FlareSolverr
Proxy server to bypass Cloudflare protection
FlareSolverr is a proxy server to bypass Cloudflare and DDoS-GUARD protection. FlareSolverr starts a proxy server, and it waits for user requests in an idle state using few resources. When some request arrives, it uses puppeteer with the stealth plugin to create a headless browser (Firefox). It opens the URL with user parameters and waits until the Cloudflare challenge is solved (or timeout). The HTML code and the cookies are sent back to the user, and those cookies can be used to bypass Cloudflare using other HTTP clients. Web browsers consume a lot of memory. If you are running FlareSolverr on a machine with few RAM, do not make many requests at once. With each request, a new browser is launched. It is also possible to use a permanent session. However, if you use sessions, you should make sure to close them as soon as you are done using them. It is recommended to install using a Docker container because the project depends on an external browser that is already included. -
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CefSharp
.NET bindings for the Chromium embedded framework
CefSharp is an easy way to embed a full-featured standards-compliant web browser into your C# or VB.NET app. CefSharp has browser controls for WinForms and WPF apps, and a headless (offscreen) version for automation projects too. CefSharp is based on Chromium Embedded Framework, the open source version of Google Chrome. CefSharp embraces modern web standards, and supports HTML5, JavaScript, CSS3 and HTML5 audio/video elements. 3D content is supported via WebGL which uses OpenGL/DirectX for hardware accelerated rendering. CefSharp includes embedded modules for PDF, web page printing and the WebKit Inspector (developer tools). CefSharp has no external dependencies, and the full build of CefSharp only adds ~80 MB to your app. See the CefSharp.MinimalExample project for ready-to-compile minimal example apps built with CefSharp. Within the projects source there are more complicated example projects. -
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Playwright
Node library to automate Chromium, Firefox & WebKit with a single API
Playwright is a Node library for automating Chromium, Firefox and WebKit using a single API. It supports headless execution for all these browsers on Linux, macOS and Windows, providing automated web browser interactions that are fast, capable, reliable and ever-green. Playwright enables a broad spectrum of cross-browser web automation capabilities, which are used by Single Page Apps and Progressive Web Apps. These include scenarios that span multiple pages, domains and iframes; emulation of mobile devices, geolocation, and permissions; upload and download files and many more. -
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Lightpanda Browser
Lightpanda: the headless browser designed for AI and automation
Lightpanda is an open-source headless browser designed specifically for automation, artificial intelligence workflows, and large-scale web interaction tasks. Unlike traditional browsers that include full graphical rendering engines meant for human users, Lightpanda is built from scratch to operate entirely in headless mode, focusing only on the components required for programmatic web interaction. This design allows it to execute JavaScript and interact with web pages while avoiding the overhead associated with rendering images, fonts, and layout elements intended for visual display. The browser is implemented using the Zig programming language and integrates the V8 JavaScript engine to run modern web applications and scripts efficiently. Because it avoids graphical rendering and other heavy browser components, the system uses significantly less memory and launches almost instantly compared to conventional browsers such as Chrome. -
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Ulixee Hero
The web browser built for scraping
It's the first modern headless browsers designed specifically for scraping instead of just automated testing. Hero provides access to the W3C DOM specification without the need for Puppeteer's complicated evaluate callbacks and multi-context switching. We've recreated a fully compliant DOM directly in NodeJS allowing you bypass the headaches of previous scraper tools. The powerful Chrome engine sits under the hood, allowing for lightning fast rendering. Emulators make it easy to disguise your script as practically any browser. -
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Playwright for Go
Playwright for Go a browser automation library to control Chromium
Playwright is a Node.js library to automate Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit with a single API. Playwright is built to enable cross-browser web automation that is ever-green, capable, reliable and fast. Headless execution is supported for all browsers on all platforms. Playwright is built to automate the broad and growing set of web browser capabilities used by Single Page Apps and Progressive Web Apps. Scenarios that span multiple page, domains and iframes. Auto-wait for elements to be ready before executing actions (like click, fill). Intercept network activity for stubbing and mocking network requests. Emulate mobile devices, geolocation, permissions. Support for web components via shadow-piercing selectors. Native input events for mouse and keyboard. Upload and download files. The bridge between Node.js and the other languages is basically a Node.js runtime combined with Playwright which gets shipped for each of these languages (around 50MB). -
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Critters
A Webpack plugin to inline your critical CSS and lazy-load the rest
It's a little different from other options because it doesn't use a headless browser to render content. This tradeoff allows Critters to be very fast and lightweight. It also means Critters inlines all CSS rules used by your document, rather than only those needed for above-the-fold content. Critters' design makes it a good fit when inlining critical CSS for prerendered/SSR'd Single Page Applications. It was developed to be an excellent compliment to the prerender-loader, combining to dramatically improve first paint time for most Single Page Applications. Import Critters into your Webpack configuration and add it to your list of plugins. That's it! Now when you run Webpack, the CSS used by your HTML will be inlined and the imports for your full CSS will be converted to load asynchronously. Create a Critters plugin instance with the given options. -
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googler
Google from the terminal
googler is a power tool to Google (web, news, videos and site search) from the command line. It shows the title, URL and abstract for each result, which can be directly opened in a browser from the terminal. Results are fetched in pages (with page navigation). Supports sequential searches in a single googler instance. googler was initially written to cater to headless servers without X. You can integrate it with a text-based browser. However, it has grown into a very handy and flexible utility that delivers much more. For example, fetch any number of results or start anywhere, limit the search by any duration, define aliases to google search any number of websites, and switch domains easily, all of this in a very clean interface without ads or stray URLs. The shell completion scripts make sure you don't need to remember any options. -
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miniblink49
Lighter, faster browser kernel of blink to integrate HTML UI in apps
miniblink is an open source, one file, small browser widget based on chromium. By using C interface, you can create a browser with just some line code. miniblink is an open source, single-file, and currently the smallest known chromium-based browser control. Through its exported pure C interface, a browser control can be created in a few lines of code. C++, C#, Delphi and other language calls (support C++, C#, Delphi language to call). Embedded Nodejs, support electron (with Nodejs, can run electron). Customize as you wish, simulate another browser environment. Perfect HTML5 support, friendly to various front-end libraries (support HTML5, and friendly to front framework). After turning off the cross-domain switch, you can use various cross-domain functions (support cross-domain). Headless mode, which greatly saves resources and is suitable for crawlers (headless mode, be suitable for Web Crawler). -
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Browser Pool
A Node.js library to easily manage and rotate a pool of web browsers
Browser Pool is a small, but powerful and extensible library, that allows you to seamlessly control multiple headless browsers at the same time with only a little configuration, and a single function call. Currently it supports Puppeteer, Playwright and it can be easily extended with plugins. We created Browser Pool because we regularly needed to execute tasks concurrently in many headless browsers and their pages, but we did not want to worry about launching browsers, closing browsers, restarting them after crashes and so on. We also wanted to easily and reliably manage the whole browser/page lifecycle. You can use Browser Pool for scraping the internet at scale, testing your website in multiple browsers at the same time or launching web automation robots. -
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Flutter InAppWebView Plugin
A Flutter plugin that allows you to add an inline webview
A Flutter plugin that allows you to add an inline WebView, to use a headless WebView, and to open an in-app browser window. Adding the InAppWebView widget into your app is very simple. It’s just a widget like any other Flutter widget. Use InAppBrowser or ChromeSafariBrowser to open an in-app browser! ChromeSafariBrowser is based on Chrome Custom Tabs on Android and on SFSafariViewController on iOS. Create a Class that extends the InAppBrowser/ChromeSafariBrowser Class in order to override the callbacks to manage the browser events. It can be used to run a WebView in background without attaching an InAppWebView to the widget tree. As InAppWebView, it has the same options and events. Use InAppWebViewController to control the headless WebView instance. -
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Playwright for .NET
.NET version of the Playwright testing and automation library
Playwright for .NET is the official language port of Playwright, the library to automate Chromium, Firefox and WebKit with a single API. Playwright is built to enable cross-browser web automation that is ever-green, capable, reliable and fast. Cross-browser. Playwright supports all modern rendering engines including Chromium, WebKit, and Firefox. Cross-platform. Test on Windows, Linux, and macOS, locally or on CI, headless or headed. Cross-language. Use the Playwright API in TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, .NET, Java. Test Mobile Web. Native mobile emulation of Google Chrome for Android and Mobile Safari. The same rendering engine works on your Desktop and in the Cloud. Auto-wait. Playwright waits for elements to be actionable prior to performing actions. It also has a rich set of introspection events. The combination of the two eliminates the need for artificial timeouts - the primary cause of flaky tests. -
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Playwright for Python
Python version of the Playwright testing and automation library
Playwright enables reliable end-to-end testing for modern web apps. Single API to automate Chromium, Firefox and WebKit. Capable automation for single page apps that rely on the modern web platform. Use the Playwright API in JavaScript & TypeScript, Python, .NET and, Java. With Playwright, test how your app behaves in Apple Safari with WebKit builds for Windows, Linux and macOS. Test locally and on CI. Use device emulation to test your responsive web apps in mobile web browsers. Playwright supports headless (without browser UI) and headed (with browser UI) modes for all browsers and all platforms. Headed is great for debugging, and headless is faster and suited for CI/cloud executions. Playwright interactions auto-wait for elements to be ready. This improves reliability and simplifies test authoring. Playwright receives browser signals, like network requests, page navigations and page load events to eliminate the need for sleep timeouts that cause flakiness. -
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Puppeteer
Headless Chrome Node.js API
Puppeteer is a headless Node library that provides a high level API for controlling Chromium or Chrome over the DevTools protocol. It requires zero setup and comes bundled with the Chromium version most suited to it. Puppeteer is headless by default, making it fast to run. However, it can also be set to run full or non-headless Chrome or Chromium, simply set the headless option when launching a browser. Many of the things you can do manually in the browser, you can also do with Puppeteer such as generate page screenshots and PDFs, crawl a Single-Page Application, test Chrome extensions and more. -
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Playwright for Java
Java version of the Playwright testing and automation library
Playwright Java is the Java version of the Playwright testing and automation library, enabling reliable end-to-end testing for modern web applications. -
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Playwright Skill for Claude Code
Claude Code Skill for browser automation with Playwright
Playwright Skill is an open-source plugin designed for Claude Code that enables dynamic browser automation using Playwright through natural language instructions. The tool allows an AI agent to generate, execute, and manage browser automation scripts on demand, rather than relying on predefined workflows or static test scripts. It is structured as a modular skill within the Claude ecosystem, meaning it can be installed as a plugin and invoked automatically when browser automation tasks are required. The system supports a wide range of use cases, including testing web applications, validating user interfaces, automating workflows, and extracting data from websites. One of its key advantages is its ability to generate custom Playwright code tailored to each request, allowing flexible and context-aware automation. -
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RPA for Python
Python package for doing RPA
Python package for doing RPA. RPA for Python's simple and powerful API makes robotic process automation fun! You can use it to quickly automate away repetitive time-consuming tasks on websites, desktop applications, or the command line. See sample Python script, the RPA Challenge solution, and RedMart groceries example. To send a Telegram app notification, simply look up @rpapybot to allow receiving messages. To automate Chrome browser invisibly, use headless mode. To run 10X faster instead of normal human speed, use turbo mode (read the caveats!). Some CAPTCHAs can be solved using services like 2Captcha or directly by replicating user actions. TagUI is a leading open-source RPA software with tens of thousands of users. It was created in 2016-2017 when I left DBS Bank as a test automation engineer, for a one-year sabbatical to Eastern Europe. Most of its code base was written in Novi Sad Serbia. In 2018, I joined AI Singapore to continue development of TagUI. -
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SecretAgent
The web scraper that's nearly impossible to block
SecretAgent is a headless browser that’s nearly impossible to detect. It achieves this by emulating real users. And it has powerful auto-replay functionality that lets you create and debug scripts in record setting time. -
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XSpear
Powerfull XSS Scanning and Parameter analysis tool&gem
XSpear is an XSS Scanner on ruby gems. Powerful XSS Scanning and Parameter analysis tool&gem. -
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ZetaJS
JS wrapper for ZetaOffice in the browser
The zeta.js library provides the facilities to run an instance of ZetaOffice integrated into your web site, allowing you to control it with JavaScript code via the LibreOffice UNO technology. Use cases range from an in-browser office suite that looks and feels just like its desktop counterpart, to fine-tuned custom text editing and spreadsheet capabilities embedded in your website, to a headless zetajs instance that does document conversion in the background. -
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crawlee
A web scraping and browser automation library for Node.js
Crawlee is a web scraping and browser automation library. It helps you build reliable crawlers. Fast. Crawlee won't fix broken selectors for you (yet), but it helps you build and maintain your crawlers faster. When a website adds JavaScript rendering, you don't have to rewrite everything, only switch to one of the browser crawlers. When you later find a great API to speed up your crawls, flip the switch back. It keeps your proxies healthy by rotating them smartly with good fingerprints that make your crawlers look human-like. It's not unblockable, but it will save you money in the long run. Crawlee is built by people who scrape for a living and use it every day to scrape millions of pages. Meet our community on Discord. We believe websites are best scraped in the language they're written in. Crawlee runs on Node.js and it's built in TypeScript to improve code completion in your IDE, even if you don't use TypeScript yourself. -
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react-llm
Easy-to-use headless React Hooks to run LLMs in the browser with WebGP
Easy-to-use headless React Hooks to run LLMs in the browser with WebGPU. As simple as useLLM(). -
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Browser Preview for VS Code
A real browser preview inside your editor that you can debug
Browser Preview for VS Code enables you to open a real browser preview inside your editor that you can debug. Browser Preview is powered by headless Chromium, and works by starting a headless Chromium instance in a new process. This can either be Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge. This enables a secure way to render web content inside VS Code, and enables interesting features such as in-editor debugging and more! Make sure you have Google Chrome installed on your computer. Browser Preview for VS Code is debuggable, launch URLs and attach Debugger for Chrome to the browser view instance, and debug within VS Code. You can enable in-editor debugging of Browser Preview by installing Debugger for Chrome, and configure VS Code's debugger to either attach or launch to the browser previews by using the provided configuration options. -
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VBot
JSON based visual regression testing library
A visual regression testing library/tool, aims to quickly automate browser-based tests with minimum development overhead. To test flexibly in different testing scenarios, either testing against web UI wired with backends or just static web pages, VBot exposes API to be used with testing frameworks like mocha or ava, etc. Therefore, the test data variables can be updated according to different conditions, in order to decouple from real backends and avoid false negative results.
