Open source alternatives to Headless Chrome
One project on starwire does the same job. Ranked by how much of what Headless Chrome does each one covers, read from its README and website. Ties go to the most active.
What Headless Chrome does
- Browser automationcore
- Web scrapingcore
- Automated testing
- Screenshots and PDFs of pages
- DevTools protocol control
Each dot in the table is one job, in this order. Square dots are core jobs and count double. Full means yes, half means partly. "See the evidence" under a project shows the line behind each one. Coverage is what a project documents, not how well it works or how hard it is to move to. How we score this
| Project | Covers | Stars | Commits, 12 weeks | Last release | Closed vs opened | Setup | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 browserHeadless browser in Zig that speaks the Chrome DevTools protocol |
Replaces it86% | 42k+446 | yesterday | 100% | Uses the terminal | AGPL-3.0 | |
Covers all 2 core jobs. Partly: Automated testing; Screenshots and PDFs of pages.See the evidence
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