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lightpanda-io/browser
Lightpanda: the headless browser designed for AI and automation
Our verdict
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From the listing
About lightpanda-io/browser
Lightpanda is a headless browser designed for AI and automation workloads. It is written in Zig and provides a lightweight runtime for programmatic web interactions. The project is open source and hosted on GitHub.
Best for
Developers building AI agents that need to browse and interact with web pages programmatically.
Use cases
- Running browser automation scripts without a visible UI
- Feeding web pages into AI agents for data extraction
- Executing JavaScript in a lightweight headless environment
Notes
35,603 stars on GitHub. Last updated 2026-09-27. Licensed AGPL-3.0.
Pros
- Purpose-built for AI and automation scenarios
- Written in Zig, which can offer low resource usage
- Large community with over 35,000 stars
Cons
- Headless-only, so no interactive debugging UI
- Zig ecosystem may be less familiar to many developers
- May have fewer extensions or integrations than mature browsers
Key facts
What we have checked
- Days since the last commit
- 0
- GitHub forks
- 2,041
- GitHub stars
- 41,382
- Days to a first reply on issues
- 0.9
- Open issues
- 56
- Releases in the last 90 days
- 7
Each value shows when we last confirmed it and where it came from. Values we have not confirmed are left out, never guessed.
How to use
How to set it up
As the listing publishes it. We have not run this install.
Install
brew install lightpanda-io/browser/lightpandaClients the listing names (not checked here)
ChatGPT
Install
Add lightpanda-io/browser to your client
No install recipe yet. We write one for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and ChatGPT when the server is in the official MCP registry with a package or remote address we can use.
Until then, follow the project's own README, or the setup the listing publishes under How to set it up.
Works with
What lightpanda-io/browser connects to
No confirmed connections yet. A product appears here when the server's registry name, repo, homepage or name ties it to that product, and a client appears when we have an install recipe for it.
Stars and usage
How lightpanda-io/browser is growing
37,392 to 41,382
Health and security
Is lightpanda-io/browser looked after, and what do its setup files show
Health score
80 out of 100
| Part | Points | What we saw |
|---|---|---|
| Recent activity | 30 of 30 | Last push 0 days ago |
| Releases | 15 of 15 | 7 releases in 90 days |
| Issue replies | 20 of 20 | First reply in 0.9 days (median) |
| Maintainer | 15 of 15 | Owned by an organisation |
| Official source | 0 of 20 | Community server |
Security check static checks
100 out of 100
- Note No published npm or PyPI package of this repository was found, so package advisories were not checked.
- Note The lab has not recorded this server's tool list yet, so tool permissions were not checked.
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Sources
Where this comes from
- GitHubRegistry
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Changelog
What changed
No changes recorded yet. Releases, price changes and deprecations appear here, with their dates, once we track them for this record.
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