Browserless
Headless browser automation as a self-hosted service
Browserless runs headless Chrome and Firefox as a managed service, exposing APIs for screenshots, PDFs, scraping, and automation. It connects to Puppeteer and Playwright over WebSocket.
Key features
- Headless browser pool
- Puppeteer and Playwright support
- Screenshot and PDF APIs
- Session management
Strengths
- Released under the SSPL-1.0 license
- First-class Docker support for quick deployment
- Mature project with 13.7k GitHub stars
- Written in TypeScript
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