Show HN: Ember – Lightweight headless browser for AI agents (17MB idle)

Category: devtools

Tags: headless-browser, ai-agents, web-scraping, python, cli-tool, rest-api, mcp-server

Score: 6.0/10 (Innovation: 5, Technical: 6, Documentation: 7, Utility: 6)

Ember is an open-source, lightweight headless browser designed specifically for AI agents, using Lightpanda (~12MB) to achieve an idle footprint of ~17MB. It offers a Python API, CLI, REST API, and MCP server for scraping, crawling, searching, and interacting with web pages, making it a practical alternative to heavier tools like Playwright or Crawl4AI for resource-constrained environments.

Target audience: backend devs, data engineers, ai engineers

Repository: https://github.com/andalabx/ember · Python · MIT · 1 stars

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