GitHub - firecrawl/firecrawl: The context API to search, scrape, and interact with the web at scale. 🔥
The context API to search, scrape, and interact with the web at scale. 🔥 - firecrawl/firecrawl
Open Source Software
Summary
Obscura is a lightweight, open-source headless browser engine written in Rust, specifically optimized for web scraping and AI agent automation. It serves as a high-performance, low-resource alternative to headless Chrome, offering built-in anti-detection and seamless compatibility with Puppeteer and Playwright.
Highlights
- Significantly lower resource footprint, consuming only 30 MB of memory compared to 200+ MB for headless Chrome.
- Features built-in anti-detection capabilities to improve stealth during automated web tasks.
- Acts as a drop-in replacement for Puppeteer and Playwright via support for the Chrome DevTools Protocol.
- Provides native rendering and JavaScript execution via V8 without requiring Chromium or Node.js.
- Offers both a fully featured Apache-2.0 open-source engine and a managed 'Obscura Cloud' service.
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Audience
Software Developers, Web Scrapers, and AI Engineers
DomainWeb Automation and Scraping
FormatSoftware Repository
AccessOpen source
Source Overview
Obscura is an open-source headless browser engine written in Rust that runs JavaScript via V8, supports the Chrome DevTools Protocol, and serves as a Puppeteer and Playwright drop-in replacement.
It consumes 30 MB of memory in a 70 MB binary with built-in anti-detect, versus 200+ MB and 300+ MB for headless Chrome. The Apache-2.0 project captures screenshots, live screencasts, and PDF exports without requiring Chromium or Node.js.
Topics
Related
PuppeteerPlaywrightChrome DevTools ProtocolV8 EngineWeb ScrapingAI Agents
