What are the best headless browsers?

1•aledevv•1h ago

I'd like to understand how to use headless browsers to programmatically perform some submit actions on services that don't provide APIs.

But first of all, I'd like to understand which are the best ones out there.

The goal, on my side, will be to understand how to integrate them into an AI Agent feature.

Share you feedbacks please.

Comments

joryeugene•1h ago

The one in gstack is pretty nice, built off playwright.

vanyaland•1h ago

I’d separate “best engine” from “best developer experience”. If you want something that mostly just works, Playwright is still the easiest default.

hwartig•1h ago

I'd recommend chrome(ium) headless https://developer.chrome.com/docs/chromium/headless . It works with various drivers like puppeteer, selenium and playwright for some added convenience.

At https://checklyhq.com we and our customers use it heavily and reliably through playwright for various monitoring, testing and automation use cases.

As you want to use it from an Agent you also should take a look at https://developer.chrome.com/blog/chrome-devtools-mcp and https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-mcp

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