lightpanda-io/browser
Lightpanda: the headless browser designed for AI and automation
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Lightpanda Browser The headless browser built from scratch for AI agents and automation. Not a Chromium fork. Not a WebKit patch. A new browser, written in Zig. 16x lighter and 9x faster than Chromium. [](https://github.com/lightpanda-io/browser/blob/main/LICENSE) [](https://twitter.com/lightpandaio) [](https://github.com/lightpanda-io/browser) [](https://discord.gg/K63XeymfB5)   Requesting 933 real web pages over the network on a AWS EC2 m5.large instance. See benchmark details. Package Managers Latest nightly from Homebrew: Latest nightly from Arch Linux User Repository: Download from the nightly builds You can download the last binary from the nightly builds for Linux and MacOS for both x8664 and aarch64. For Linux Verify the binary before running anything: Linux aarch64 is also available If you use Nix, you can run Lightpanda directly from the flake without downloading a binary: Or pin it as an input in your own flake: For MacOS MacOS x8664 is also available For Windows + WSL2 Lightpanda has no native Windows binary. Install…
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What this repository does
Lightpanda: the headless browser designed for AI and automation
Repository facts
- Owner
- lightpanda-io
- Primary language
- Zig
- Stars
- 39,609
- Forks
- 1,935
- Open issues + pull requests
- 99
- License
- AGPL-3.0
- Archived
- No
- Default branch
- main
- Created
- 2023-02-07T15:19:34.000Z
- Last push
- 2026-10-30T11:43:12.000Z
Topics and intended use
Owner-supplied topics: browser, browser-automation, cdp, headless, lightpanda, playwright, puppeteer, zig
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