Show HN: Obscura – V8-powered headless browser for scraping and AI agents

Category: infrastructure

Tags: headless-browser, web-scraping, ai-agents, rust, v8

Score: 8.0/10 (Innovation: 7, Technical: 9, Documentation: 8, Utility: 8)

Obscura is an open-source headless browser written in Rust that uses V8 to provide a lightweight, stealthy alternative to headless Chrome for web scraping and AI agent automation. It offers significant performance improvements (30MB memory, 85ms page load) and built-in anti-detection features while maintaining full compatibility with Puppeteer and Playwright via the Chrome DevTools Protocol, making it a compelling tool for large-scale automation tasks.

Target audience: backend devs, data engineers, devops

Repository: https://github.com/h4ckf0r0day/obscura · Rust · Apache-2.0 · 7105 stars

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