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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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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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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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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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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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chromedp
A faster, simpler way to drive browsers supporting the Chrome DevTools
chromedp is an open-source Go library that provides high-level browser automation capabilities by communicating directly with the Chrome DevTools Protocol. The library allows developers to control Chrome or Chromium programmatically from Go applications without relying on external browser drivers or additional runtime dependencies. Using chromedp, developers can automate tasks such as navigating websites, filling out forms, clicking elements, capturing screenshots, and extracting structured data from pages. The library typically operates in headless mode but can also run with a visible browser window when needed for debugging or development. Because it communicates directly with Chrome’s debugging interface, chromedp offers high performance and reliable automation compared with tools that rely on intermediary drivers. It is frequently used for web scraping, automated testing, performance monitoring, and browser-based data extraction workflows. -
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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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Bits UI
The headless components for Svelte
Bits UI is an open-source headless component library designed specifically for the Svelte ecosystem, providing developers with flexible and accessible primitives for building custom user interface components. Instead of shipping with predefined styles, the library offers unstyled components that focus on behavior and accessibility, allowing developers to fully control the appearance of their UI through their own CSS or design systems. This headless architecture makes Bits UI particularly useful for teams that need reusable UI logic while maintaining consistent branding and visual customization. The project builds on concepts inspired by libraries such as Radix UI and React Spectrum and integrates builder patterns influenced by Melt UI to deliver powerful component abstractions. Developers can use Bits UI to implement complex interface patterns such as dropdowns, modals, and calendars while preserving accessibility standards and predictable interaction behaviors. -
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Reka UI
An open-source UI component library for building design systems
Reka UI is an open-source UI component library designed for building accessible and customizable web interfaces in Vue-based applications. The library provides a collection of unstyled UI primitives that developers can use as the foundation for creating fully customized design systems. Rather than forcing a predefined visual style, Reka UI focuses on accessibility, composability, and flexibility, allowing developers to implement their own visual themes and branding. The project evolved from the Radix Vue initiative and aims to bring the same accessibility-focused component patterns to the Vue ecosystem. By providing low-level building blocks instead of finished components, Reka UI allows developers to design complex interface elements while maintaining full control over styling and behavior. -
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Sanity
Rapidly configure content workspaces powered by structured content
Sanity is an open-source real-time headless content management system that allows developers to manage structured content for websites, applications, and digital platforms. At the core of the system is Sanity Studio, a customizable editing environment built with React that can be configured to match the workflows and content models of different teams. Instead of using predefined content templates, Sanity allows developers to define schemas in code that determine how content is structured and stored. The platform stores data in a real-time backend called the Content Lake, enabling collaborative editing and instant updates across connected applications. Because the system separates content management from presentation, developers can use any front-end framework to display the data. Sanity also includes APIs and query tools that allow developers to retrieve content dynamically and integrate it into websites, mobile apps, and other digital services. -
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Vendure Core
Open source headless commerce framework built with TypeScript
Vendure is an open-source headless commerce framework designed for building customizable and scalable e-commerce applications. Built with Node.js and TypeScript, the platform provides a modular architecture that allows developers to create complex commerce systems tailored to specific business requirements. Vendure separates the backend commerce engine from the front-end storefront, allowing developers to build custom user interfaces using modern frameworks such as React, Angular, or Vue. The framework includes core e-commerce functionality such as product management, order processing, payment handling, and inventory tracking. It also provides a powerful plugin system that allows developers to extend or modify functionality without altering the core platform. Because Vendure exposes its services through a flexible API layer, it can be integrated with multiple storefronts, mobile apps, or third-party services. -
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Wraith
A responsive screenshot comparison tool
Wraith is a screenshot comparison tool, created by developers at BBC News. Wraith uses a headless browser to create screenshots of webpages on different environments (or at different moments in time) and then creates a diff of the two images; the affected areas are highlighted in blue. There are two main modes for using Wraith, 'capture' mode and 'history' mode. Wraith has some built-in JavaScript and configuration file templates for you to get started with right away. If you wish to take screenshots of a component rather than the entire page, use casperjs and pass a selector along with your paths. In the 'component' example config, you can see how we specify a component name, domain path and selector we want to capture. All config options will be placed in a YAML config file. You set the headless browser, diff mode, threshold, fuzz amount and screen widths. -
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Plasmic
Build apps, websites, and content. Integrate with your codebase
Plasmic is a visual development platform designed to help teams design, build, and manage websites and web applications through a combination of visual editing tools and code integration. The platform provides a drag-and-drop design environment that allows designers, developers, and product teams to collaborate on building user interfaces while maintaining compatibility with modern front-end frameworks. Instead of requiring developers to manually code every layout, Plasmic allows visual designs to be converted directly into production-ready React components and integrated into existing codebases. This approach enables non-developers such as designers or marketers to create and modify content without breaking application logic. Plasmic also functions as a headless CMS and page builder that can deliver content and components to multiple types of 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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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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Browserless
Deploy headless browsers in Docker
Browserless is an open-source browser automation platform for running headless browsers in Docker or through Browserless-hosted cloud infrastructure. It lets developers connect existing Puppeteer and Playwright code to remote browser sessions over WebSocket, which helps move heavy browser work away from local machines or application servers. The project also provides REST APIs for common automation tasks such as screenshots, PDF generation, scraping, crawling, and content export. Browserless is useful for teams that need scalable browser execution for testing, data collection, rendering, or AI-agent browsing workflows. Its deployment model supports self-hosting, private infrastructure, queues, concurrency controls, and enterprise-oriented configuration. The project’s main value is turning browser automation into a managed service layer that can be reused across applications and workflows. -
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Factorio
Factorio headless server in a Docker container
Factorio is an open-source project that provides a Docker container for running a headless Factorio game server. Factorio is a factory-building simulation game in which players automate production lines, research technologies, and manage complex industrial systems, and the repository focuses specifically on hosting the game server in a containerized environment. By packaging the server into a Docker image, the project simplifies the process of deploying and maintaining multiplayer servers across different operating systems and cloud environments. The container automatically handles dependencies, configuration, and updates, making it easier for system administrators and hobbyists to run dedicated Factorio servers. Users can configure server settings, maps, mods, and saved games through mounted volumes and environment variables within the container. -
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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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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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builder.io
Visual Development for React, Vue, Svelte, Qwik, and more
Builder is an open-source visual development platform and headless content management system designed to help teams build and manage digital experiences more efficiently. The platform combines a drag-and-drop visual editor with an API-driven content system that can deliver structured content to any front-end framework or application. Builder allows developers to integrate their existing components and design systems while enabling designers and marketers to modify layouts and publish content without writing code. Through its headless architecture, content and layouts can be delivered across websites, mobile applications, and other digital channels. The system also includes optimization tools that allow teams to experiment with layouts, personalize content, and iterate on user experiences quickly. -
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gl
Windowless WebGL for node.js
headless-gl is an open-source Node.js library that provides a WebGL rendering context without requiring a browser window or graphical user interface. It enables developers to create and manipulate WebGL contexts directly within server-side JavaScript environments, making it possible to perform GPU-accelerated rendering tasks without launching a full browser. The project aims to conform closely to the WebGL specification so that standard WebGL APIs and shaders can be used in Node.js applications. Because the library runs without a DOM or canvas element, it is particularly useful for headless environments such as servers, automated testing pipelines, or cloud rendering systems. Developers commonly use headless-gl for tasks such as generating images, performing GPU-based computations, or rendering 3D scenes in server-side workflows. -
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Social Browser
Profiles, AI & MCP in One Browser
Social Browser is a Windows desktop browser for managing multiple accounts from one place without mixing sessions. Each Profile keeps its own login session, cookies, storage, and settings isolated. AI automation in Automation Studio runs repeat browser work inside persistent Profiles. MCP AI-compatible clients can search, read, automate, and control the browser. Organize Profiles with groups, tags, search, and filtering; add your own proxy per Profile when needed. It also includes workflows, browser and JavaScript automation, bulk actions, alerts, privacy protection, ad blocking, User Scripts, extensions, and Free and VIP Social Tools. Latest release: v26.09.16 for Windows x64. -
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Aimeos headless distribution
Aimeos cloud-native, API-first ecommerce headless distribution
Aimeos Headless is an open-source headless eCommerce distribution built on top of the Laravel framework, designed to provide a fast and scalable API-driven commerce backend. The project exposes a comprehensive REST and GraphQL API that allows developers to build custom storefronts or commerce applications using any frontend technology. Because the platform follows a headless architecture, it separates the commerce logic from the presentation layer, enabling developers to build web, mobile, or progressive web applications while relying on Aimeos for backend functionality. The framework includes a full set of commerce features such as product catalog management, order processing, and customer management while remaining highly customizable. It is designed to scale from small online shops to very large marketplaces and enterprise-level commerce platforms handling massive product catalogs.
