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h4ckf0r0day/obscura

The headless browser for AI agents and web scraping

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Stars, forks and merged pull requests each day or month, lined up with the repository's rank on Trendshift Trending

Aug 26 – Oct 25, 2026

Stars +6,998 in 61 days

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Forks +598 in 61 days

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Merged PRs 265 in 61 days

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    • Mentions and achievements

    Where people are talking about h4ckf0r0day/obscura, and every badge it has earned
    1. Oct 151 post

      • Let's go through lightweight browser engines that you can use today to speed up your testing and development I tried all them and I would like to share my experience Save this list of agentic…

        Read full on X, posted by @davert

        @davert · x.com

    2. 11 days earlier
    3. Oct 41 post

      • If you run browser agents in parallel, headless Chrome's RAM bill is probably your real scaling limit. Obscura is a headless browser in Rust with V8 and CDP, so your existing Puppeteer/Playwright…

        Read full on X, posted by @lifeisameeme

        @lifeisameeme · x.com

    4. 28 days earlier
    5. Sep 62 posts

      • Obscura runs browser automation without launching Chromium. It is an open-source headless browser written in Rust for AI agents and web scraping. It runs JavaScript through V8 and works with…

        Read full on X, posted by @agenticgirl

        @agenticgirl · x.com

      • I Changed My License (

        Read full on X, posted by @betterhn20

        @betterhn20 · x.com

    6. Sep 51 post

      • Obscura: Native rendering is here. No Chromium required

        Read full on Hacker News

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    7. Sep 41 post

      • You can now scrape the web with AI agents in 85ms. Someone built in Rust what Chrome engineers couldn't optimize in years. Obscura is an open-source headless browser engine for web scraping and AI…

        Read full on X, posted by @itsharmanjot

        @itsharmanjot · x.com

    8. Aug 314 posts

      • And its 4 sponsors? All residential-proxy resellers — the exact infrastructure used to make bot traffic look like real people's home networks.

        Read full on X, posted by @nineshoot

        @nineshoot · x.com

      • It's still v0.1.x. Rendering doesn't match Chrome on every weird site, and the stealth build needs CMake and Clang to compile from source. Text and data extraction? Excellent. Full Chrome…

        Read full on X, posted by @charliejhills

        @charliejhills · x.com

      • It's still v0.1.x. Rendering doesn't match Chrome on every weird site, and the stealth build needs CMake and Clang to compile from source. Text and data extraction? Excellent. Full Chrome…

        Read full on X, posted by @charliejhills

        @charliejhills · x.com

      • 比较适合agent 的轻量级浏览器

        Read full on X, posted by @xidianwlc

        @xidianwlc · x.com

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