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lightpanda-io/browser
Lightpanda: the headless browser designed for AI and automation
Lightpanda is a headless browser written from scratch in Zig, designed for AI agents and web automation rather than being a Chromium or WebKit fork. It exposes the Chrome DevTools Protocol so it works with Playwright and Puppeteer, and claims roughly 16x lower memory use and 9x faster execution than headless Chrome on a 933-page crawl benchmark.
Why now: It is gaining attention as AI agents and scraping workloads drive demand for faster, cheaper headless browsing, with benchmarks showing large speed and memory gains over headless Chromium.
Who it is for: Developers running web scraping, testing, or AI-agent browsing at scale who want a lightweight alternative to headless Chrome.
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