Best Headless Browsers for Python
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This a list of Headless Browsers that integrate with Python. Use the filters on the left to add additional filters for products that have integrations with Python. View the products that work with Python in the table below.
What are Headless Browsers for Python?
A headless browser is a web browser that operates without a graphical user interface (GUI), allowing tasks to be performed programmatically instead of through direct user interaction. It processes web pages, including rendering and executing JavaScript, just like a standard browser but works entirely in the background. This makes it a valuable tool for tasks such as web scraping, automated testing, and performance analysis. By running without a visual interface, headless browsers are faster and more resource-efficient than traditional browsers. They are widely used in automation workflows to interact with and analyze web content seamlessly. Compare and read user reviews of the best Headless Browsers for Python currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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Google Chrome
Google
Connect to the world on the browser built by Google. Google builds powerful tools that help you connect, play, work and get things done. And all of it works on Chrome. With Google apps like Gmail, Google Pay, and Google Assistant, Chrome can help you stay productive and get more out of your browser. -
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Mozilla Firefox
Mozilla
Mozilla Firefox is a free, open-source web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to internet health and privacy. Designed to prioritize user privacy and security, Firefox offers features like Total Cookie Protection, which provides outstanding privacy by default. The browser includes tools such as Firefox View, allowing users to see tabs open on other devices and access recent history, and built-in PDF editing capabilities, enabling form edits directly within the browser. Available across various platforms, including Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS, Firefox ensures a consistent and secure browsing experience. Its commitment to user-centric development and transparency makes it a preferred choice for those seeking a trustworthy alternative to proprietary browsers.Starting Price: Free -
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Selenium
Software Freedom Conservancy
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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Bright Data
Bright Data
Bright Data is the world's #1 web data, proxies, & data scraping solutions platform. Fortune 500 companies, academic institutions and small businesses all rely on Bright Data's products, network and solutions to retrieve crucial public web data in the most efficient, reliable and flexible manner, so they can research, monitor, analyze data and make better informed decisions. Bright Data is used worldwide by 20,000+ customers in nearly every industry. Its products range from no-code data solutions utilized by business owners, to a robust proxy and scraping infrastructure used by developers and IT professionals. Bright Data products stand out because they provide a cost-effective way to perform fast and stable public web data collection at scale, effortless conversion of unstructured data into structured data and superior customer experience, while being fully transparent and compliant.Starting Price: $0.066/GB -
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Steel.dev
Steel.dev
Steel is an open source browser API that lets you control fleets of browsers in the cloud. From large-scale scrape jobs to fully autonomous web agents, Steel makes it easy to run browser automation in the cloud. Spin up on-demand browser sessions with a simple API call. Built-in CAPTCHA solving that keeps your automation flowing. Simple controls to never worry about getting flagged as a bot again. The average session starts in less than 1s when the client is in the same region. Run for a minute or several hours, each session can run up to 24 hours. Save and inject cookies and local storage to pick up where you left off. Easily run your Puppeteer, Playwright, or Selenium in the cloud. Session Viewer lets you view and debug live or recorded sessions.Starting Price: $99 per month -
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Puppeteer
Puppeteer
Most things that you can do manually in the browser can be done using Puppeteer! Puppeteer-core is intended to be a lightweight version of Puppeteer for launching an existing browser installation or for connecting to a remote one. Be sure that the version of puppeteer-core you install is compatible with the browser you intend to connect to. Puppeteer will be familiar to people using other browser testing frameworks. You create an instance of Browser, open pages, and then manipulate them with Puppeteer's API. By default, Puppeteer downloads and uses a specific version of Chromium so its API is guaranteed to work out of the box. To use Puppeteer with a different version of Chrome or Chromium, pass in the executable's path when creating a Browser instance.Starting Price: Free -
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Playwright
Playwright
Playwright supports all modern rendering engines including Chromium, WebKit, and Firefox. Test on Windows, Linux, and macOS, locally or on CI, headless or headed. 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. Playwright assertions are created specifically for the dynamic web. Checks are automatically retried until the necessary conditions are met. Configure test retry strategy, capture execution trace, videos, screenshots to eliminate flakes. Browsers run web content belonging to different origins in different processes. Playwright is aligned with the modern browsers architecture and runs tests out-of-process. This makes Playwright free of the typical in-process test runner limitations.Starting Price: Free -
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Hyperbrowser
Hyperbrowser
Hyperbrowser is a platform for running and scaling headless browsers in secure, isolated containers, built for web automation and AI-driven use cases. It enables users to automate tasks like web scraping, testing, and form filling, and to scrape and structure web data at scale for analysis and insights. Hyperbrowser integrates with AI agents to facilitate browsing, data collection, and interaction with web applications. It offers features such as automatic captcha solving to streamline automation workflows, stealth mode to bypass bot detection, and session management with logging, debugging, and secure resource isolation. The platform supports over 10,000 concurrent browsers with sub-millisecond latency, ensuring scalable and reliable browsing with a 99.9% uptime guarantee. Hyperbrowser is compatible with various tech stacks, including Python and Node.js, and provides both synchronous and asynchronous clients for seamless integration.Starting Price: $30 per month -
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ScrapFly
ScrapFly
Scrapfly offers a suite of APIs designed to streamline web data collection for developers. Their web scraping API enables efficient extraction of web pages, handling challenges like anti-scraping measures and JavaScript rendering. The Extraction API utilizes AI and large language models to parse documents and extract structured data, while the screenshot API allows for capturing high-quality visuals of web pages. These tools are built to scale, ensuring reliability and performance as data needs grow. Scrapfly also provides comprehensive documentation, SDKs in Python and TypeScript, and integrations with platforms like Zapier and Make to facilitate seamless integration into various workflows.Starting Price: $30 per month -
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Zyte
Zyte
Hi, we’re Zyte (formerly Scrapinghub)! We are the leader in web data extraction technology and services. We’re obsessed with data. And what it can do for businesses. We help thousands of companies and millions of developers to get their hands on clean, accurate data. Quickly, reliably and at scale. Every day, for more than a decade. From price intelligence, news and media, job listings and entertainment trends, brand monitoring, and more, our customers rely on us to obtain dependable data from over 13 billion web pages each month. We led the way with open source projects like Scrapy, products like our Smart Proxy Manager (formerly Crawlera), and our end-to-end data extraction services. Our fully remote team of nearly two hundred developers and extraction experts set out to remove the barriers to data and change the game. -
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Browserbase
Browserbase
Headless browsers that work everywhere, every time. Control fleets of stealth browsers to build reliable browser automation. Focus on your code with autoscaled browser instances, and best-in-class stealth features. Run hundreds of browsers with powerful resources to power uninterrupted long-running sessions. Work with headless browsers as you do with your browser with live access, replay, and full tools featuring logs and networks. Build and run undetectable automation with configurable fingerprinting, automatic captcha solving, and proxies. The best AI agents are built with Browserbase, navigating the most complex web pages, undetected. With a few lines of code, enable your AI agent to interact with any web pages, undetected and at scale. At any time, leverage the live session view feature to let humans help in completing complex tasks. Leverage Browserbase’s infrastructure to power your web scraping, automation, and LLM applications.Starting Price: $39 per month
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