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The headless browser for AI agents and web scraping
16K starsJun 18, 2026 pushweb-automationRustBrowser Automation
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Playwright Rust alternatives for AI agents.
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Rust language bindings for Microsoft Playwright
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Lightpanda: the headless browser designed for AI and automation
31K starsJun 19, 2026 pushweb-automationZigBrowser Automation
$ npx skills add lightpanda-io/browser#3
🔥 The open-source no-code platform for web scraping, crawling, search and AI data extraction • Turn websites into structured APIs in minutes 🔥
16K starsJul 2, 2026 pushweb-automationTypeScriptBrowser Automation
$ npx skills add getmaxun/maxun#4
High-performance browser automation bridge and multi-instance orchestrator with advanced stealth injection and real-time dashboard.
10K starsSep 1, 2026 pushweb-automationGoBrowser Automation
$ npx skills add pinchtab/pinchtab#5
Pydoll is a library for automating chromium-based browsers without a WebDriver, offering realistic interactions.
7.1K starsSep 16, 2026 pushweb-automationPythonBrowser Automation
$ npx skills add autoscrape-labs/pydoll#6
Make AI agents interact with websites using natural language
101K starsJun 20, 2026 pushweb-automationClaudeGPT-4
$ npx skills add browser-use/browser-use#7
Control web interfaces with natural language agents
29K starsAug 12, 2026 pushweb-automationTypeScriptBrowser
$ npx skills add alibaba/page-agent#8
Build browser agents with natural language actions
24K starsJul 17, 2026 pushweb-automationTypeScriptBrowserbase
$ npx skills add browserbase/stagehand#9
Automate browser workflows with AI agents
23K starsJul 19, 2026 pushweb-automationPythonBrowser
$ npx skills add Skyvern-AI/skyvern#10
Python version of the Playwright testing and automation library.
15K starsJul 17, 2026 pushbrowser-automationPythonPlaywright
$ npx skills add microsoft/playwright-python#11
CLI for common Playwright actions. Record and generate Playwright code, inspect selectors and take screenshots.
12K starsJul 9, 2026 pushbrowser-automationTypeScriptPlaywright
$ npx skills add microsoft/playwright-cli#12
Scrapy, a fast high-level web crawling & scraping framework for Python.
63K starsJun 25, 2026 pushweb-automationPythonWeb Automation
$ npx skills add scrapy/scrapy#13
Elegant Scraper and Crawler Framework for Golang
25K starsJun 18, 2026 pushweb-automationGoCrawler
$ npx skills add gocolly/colly#14
Adaptive web scraping for agent data collection
70K starsJul 15, 2026 pushweb-automationPythonWeb Automation
$ npx skills add D4Vinci/Scrapling#15
Python ProxyPool for web spider
23K starsJun 9, 2026 pushweb-automationPythonCrawler
$ npx skills add jhao104/proxy_pool#16
newspaper3k is a news, full-text, and article metadata extraction in Python 3. Advanced docs:
15K starsJul 8, 2026 pushweb-automationPythonCrawler
$ npx skills add codelucas/newspaperHow to choose
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