headless-engine

Ultra-lightweight (<30MB RAM), detection-free pure-Rust headless browser engine for AI agents, web scraping, and MCP servers.

Installation

pip install headless-engine

The first run automatically downloads the precompiled headless-engine binary for your platform from GitHub Releases. No manual setup required.

Usage

from headless_engine import HeadlessBrowser

with HeadlessBrowser() as browser:
    report = browser.navigate("https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence")
    markdown = browser.extract_markdown()
    print(markdown)

Environment Variables

Variable	Description
`HEADLESS_ENGINE_BIN`	Override the path to the `headless-engine` binary

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