What are Headless Browsers?

A headless browser is a web browser that operates without a graphical user interface (GUI), allowing tasks to be performed programmatically instead of through direct user interaction. It processes web pages, including rendering and executing JavaScript, just like a standard browser but works entirely in the background. This makes it a valuable tool for tasks such as web scraping, automated testing, and performance analysis. By running without a visual interface, headless browsers are faster and more resource-efficient than traditional browsers. They are widely used in automation workflows to interact with and analyze web content seamlessly. Compare and read user reviews of the best Headless Browsers currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    ScrapFly

    ScrapFly

    ScrapFly

    Scrapfly offers a suite of APIs designed to streamline web data collection for developers. Their web scraping API enables efficient extraction of web pages, handling challenges like anti-scraping measures and JavaScript rendering. The Extraction API utilizes AI and large language models to parse documents and extract structured data, while the screenshot API allows for capturing high-quality visuals of web pages. These tools are built to scale, ensuring reliability and performance as data needs grow. Scrapfly also provides comprehensive documentation, SDKs in Python and TypeScript, and integrations with platforms like Zapier and Make to facilitate seamless integration into various workflows.
    Starting Price: $30 per month
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    Zyte

    Zyte

    Zyte

    Hi, we’re Zyte (formerly Scrapinghub)! We are the leader in web data extraction technology and services. We’re obsessed with data. And what it can do for businesses. We help thousands of companies and millions of developers to get their hands on clean, accurate data. Quickly, reliably and at scale. Every day, for more than a decade. From price intelligence, news and media, job listings and entertainment trends, brand monitoring, and more, our customers rely on us to obtain dependable data from over 13 billion web pages each month. We led the way with open source projects like Scrapy, products like our Smart Proxy Manager (formerly Crawlera), and our end-to-end data extraction services. Our fully remote team of nearly two hundred developers and extraction experts set out to remove the barriers to data and change the game.
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    Ujeebu

    Ujeebu

    Ujeebu

    Ujeebu is a set of APIs for web scraping and content extraction at scale. Ujeebu provides a full featured API that uses proxies and headless browsers to circumvent blocks, execute JavaScript and extract data from within any web page using a simple API call. Ujeebu also features an AI powered automatic content extractor that removes boilerplate and identifies key data written in human language allowing developers to harvest the data they want online with minimal programming, or model training.
    Starting Price: $39.99 per month
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