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View 14 business solutionsBrowse free open source Headless Browsers and projects for Linux below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source Headless Browsers by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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. -
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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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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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Browserless
The headless Chrome/Chromium driver on top of Puppeteer
Browserless is an open-source headless browser automation library and service built on top of Puppeteer that simplifies the process of running and scaling Chromium-based browser tasks in production environments. It provides a high-level API for interacting with headless Chrome, allowing developers to perform operations such as generating PDFs, capturing screenshots, extracting text or HTML, and automating web navigation. The project is designed to act as a production-ready abstraction layer over Puppeteer, offering improved reliability, error handling, and scalability for real-world applications. Browserless includes built-in optimizations such as request blocking, automatic retries, and sensible defaults that improve performance when processing web pages. It can be used as a standalone library, a command-line tool, or a hosted API service that scales browser instances on demand. -
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Erik
Erik is an headless browser based on WebKit
Erik is a headless browser based on WebKit, written in Swift, allowing developers to run functional tests and manipulate web pages using JavaScript. -
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Flutter Workmanager
A Flutter plugin which allows you to execute code in the background
Flutter Workmanager is an open-source Flutter plugin that enables developers to execute Dart code in the background on both Android and iOS devices, even when the application is not actively running. It acts as a wrapper around native background task systems such as Android’s WorkManager and iOS background execution APIs, providing a unified interface for scheduling and managing tasks across platforms. The plugin is designed to handle asynchronous operations that need to run independently of the app’s lifecycle, such as syncing data, uploading files, fetching notifications, or performing maintenance tasks. It supports both one-off tasks and periodic tasks, allowing developers to configure execution frequency and constraints such as network availability or device state. -
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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 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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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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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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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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generator-ngx-rocket
Extensible Angular 13+ enterprise-grade project generator
Extensible Angular 5+ enterprise-grade project generator based on angular-cli with best practices from the community. Bootstrap, Angular Material or even Ionic are available, just pick one and start to code. Save time and maintenance effort by creating Progressive Web App and mobile app with the same code base. The app template is based on HTML5, TypeScript and Sass. Optimized build and bundling process with Webpack. Development server with backend proxy and live reload. Cross-browser CSS with autoprefixer and browsers list. Internationalization managed by ngx-translate. Asset revisioning for better cache management. Unit tests using Jasmine, Karma, and headless Chrome. End-to-end tests using Protractor. Static code analysis: TSLint, Codelyzer, Stylelint and HTMLHint. Local knowledgebase server using Hads. Progressive Web App (PWA) support. -
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Bagisto Next.js Commerce
Open source headless commerce that’s fast, flexible
Next.js Commerce by Bagisto is an open-source headless eCommerce framework designed to build fast, modern storefronts using the Next.js ecosystem. The project combines the Bagisto commerce backend with a frontend built using Next.js, enabling developers to create scalable and flexible commerce experiences with a fully decoupled architecture. The framework emphasizes performance by leveraging optimized rendering strategies and layered caching, which helps storefronts achieve strong Core Web Vitals scores and deliver fast loading experiences for customers. By separating backend commerce logic from the frontend presentation layer, developers can customize the shopping interface while maintaining robust product, order, and customer management through the Bagisto platform. The architecture is API-driven, allowing developers to build custom frontends, mobile apps, or integrations without being locked into a specific interface. -
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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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HeadlessX
The undetected self-hosted browser automation platform
HeadlessX is an open-source, self-hosted browser automation platform designed to run headless browsers for tasks such as web scraping, automation, and testing. The system provides a centralized service that allows developers to programmatically control browser sessions and extract data from websites through a structured API. It is built using modern technologies including Node.js, Next.js, TypeScript, and Playwright, and uses a specialized browser engine called Camoufox based on Firefox. One of the platform’s goals is to bypass common bot-detection systems by implementing advanced fingerprint spoofing and stealth techniques. The tool can perform tasks such as HTML extraction, screenshot generation, content parsing, and search result scraping while appearing like a normal user browser. Because it is self-hosted, organizations can run the platform on their own infrastructure to maintain privacy and control over automation workflows. -
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IPFS Web UI
A frontend for an IPFS node
A web interface to IPFS, shipped with Kubo, and ipfs-desktop. Check on your node stats, explore the IPLD powered merkle forest, see peers around the world and manage your files, without needing to touch the CLI. When working on the code, run an ipfs daemon, the local dev server, the unit tests, and the storybook component viewer and see the results of your changes as you save files. If you need to run IPFS in a Docker container, you can still have Web UI available by exposing both the Gateway and Web UI ports. The end-to-end tests (E2E) test the full app in a headless Chromium browser. They spawn real IPFS node for HTTP API and a static HTTP server to serve the app. The purpose of those tests is not being comprehensible, but act as a quick regression and integration suite. -
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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.