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Kloakt

Cloaked headless browser for AI agents.
Lightweight, stealthy, built in Rust. Based on Obscura.


Kloakt is a headless browser built for AI agents. It runs JavaScript via V8, extracts clean markdown from any page (including SPAs), and exposes tools via MCP for Claude Code and other AI systems.

Why Kloakt?

Metric Kloakt Headless Chrome
Memory 30 MB 200+ MB
Binary size 70 MB 300+ MB
Anti-detect Built-in None
Page load 85 ms ~500 ms
Startup Instant ~2s
SPA extract Yes Manual

Install

Build from source

git clone https://github.com/KultMember6Banger/kloakt.git
cd kloakt
cargo build --release

# With stealth mode (anti-detection + tracker blocking)
cargo build --release --features stealth

Requires Rust 1.75+ (rustup.rs). First build takes ~5 min (V8 compiles from source, cached after).

Quick Start

Extract content (AI agent use)

# Clean markdown from any page
kloakt extract https://example.com --main

# Structured JSON with metadata
kloakt extract https://example.com --main --json

# Cap output for agent context windows
kloakt extract https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rust --main --json --max-chars 3000

# Wait for SPA hydration
kloakt extract https://example.com --delay 2000 --json

Fetch a page

# Get the page title
kloakt fetch https://example.com --eval "document.title"

# Extract all links
kloakt fetch https://example.com --dump links

# Render JavaScript and dump markdown
kloakt fetch https://news.ycombinator.com --dump markdown

# Wait for dynamic content
kloakt fetch https://example.com --wait-until networkidle0

Start the CDP server

kloakt serve --port 9222

# With stealth mode
kloakt serve --port 9222 --stealth

Scrape in parallel

kloakt scrape url1 url2 url3 ... \
  --concurrency 25 \
  --eval "document.querySelector('h1').textContent" \
  --format json

Smart Extraction

The extract command uses a multi-phase pipeline optimized for AI agents:

  1. Noise removal — strips cookie banners, ads, popups, nav, social widgets
  2. Content scoring — text-density algorithm (Readability-like) finds the main content block
  3. Markdown conversion — DOM-to-markdown with absolute URL resolution
  4. SPA fallback — when JS rendering fails, extracts from meta tags, Open Graph, JSON-LD, and noscript content

Works on static HTML, server-rendered pages, and pure client-side SPAs (React, Vue, etc.).

Python API

from kloakt import extract, fetch, scrape

# Extract clean markdown
page = extract("https://example.com")
print(page.title, page.content, page.meta)

# Cap output length
page = extract("https://example.com", max_chars=3000)

# Wait for SPA content
page = extract("https://example.com", delay=2000)

# Raw fetch
html = fetch("https://example.com", dump="html")
title = fetch("https://example.com", eval_js="document.title")

# Parallel scrape
results = scrape(["https://a.com", "https://b.com"], concurrency=5)

MCP Server (Claude Code)

Kloakt includes an MCP server for use as a Claude Code tool:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "kloakt": {
      "command": "python3",
      "args": ["/path/to/kloakt/mcp_server.py"]
    }
  }
}

Exposes kloakt_extract and kloakt_fetch as native tools.

Puppeteer / Playwright

Puppeteer

import puppeteer from 'puppeteer-core';

const browser = await puppeteer.connect({
  browserWSEndpoint: 'ws://127.0.0.1:9222/devtools/browser',
});

const page = await browser.newPage();
await page.goto('https://news.ycombinator.com');
const stories = await page.evaluate(() =>
  Array.from(document.querySelectorAll('.titleline > a'))
    .map(a => ({ title: a.textContent, url: a.href }))
);
await browser.disconnect();

Playwright

import { chromium } from 'playwright-core';

const browser = await chromium.connectOverCDP({
  endpointURL: 'ws://127.0.0.1:9222',
});

const page = await browser.newContext().then(ctx => ctx.newPage());
await page.goto('https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_scraping');
console.log(await page.title());
await browser.close();

Stealth Mode

Enable with --features stealth.

  • Per-session fingerprint randomization (GPU, screen, canvas, audio, battery)
  • Realistic navigator.userAgentData (Chrome 145, high-entropy values)
  • event.isTrusted = true for dispatched events
  • Native function masking (Function.prototype.toString()[native code])
  • navigator.webdriver = undefined
  • 3,520 tracker domains blocked

CLI Reference

kloakt extract <URL>

Flag Default Description
--format markdown Output: markdown, text, or links
--main off Strip nav, header, footer, sidebar
--json off Structured JSON: title, URL, content, meta
--max-chars unlimited Truncate content to N characters
--delay 0 Extra ms to wait after load
--stealth off Anti-detection mode
--selector Wait for CSS selector
--wait-until load load, domcontentloaded, networkidle0

kloakt fetch <URL>

Flag Default Description
--dump html Output: html, text, links, markdown
--eval JavaScript expression to evaluate
--wait-until load Wait condition
--selector Wait for CSS selector
--stealth off Anti-detection mode
--quiet off Suppress banner

kloakt serve

Flag Default Description
--port 9222 WebSocket port
--proxy HTTP/SOCKS5 proxy URL
--stealth off Anti-detection + tracker blocking
--workers 1 Parallel workers

kloakt scrape <URL...>

Flag Default Description
--concurrency 10 Parallel workers
--eval JS expression per page
--format json Output: json or text

CDP API

Full Chrome DevTools Protocol support for Puppeteer/Playwright compatibility.

Domain Methods
Target createTarget, closeTarget, attachToTarget, createBrowserContext, disposeBrowserContext
Page navigate, getFrameTree, addScriptToEvaluateOnNewDocument, lifecycleEvents
Runtime evaluate, callFunctionOn, getProperties, addBinding
DOM getDocument, querySelector, querySelectorAll, getOuterHTML, resolveNode
Network enable, setCookies, getCookies, setExtraHTTPHeaders, setUserAgentOverride
Fetch enable, continueRequest, fulfillRequest, failRequest
Storage getCookies, setCookies, deleteCookies
Input dispatchMouseEvent, dispatchKeyEvent

License

Apache 2.0 — Based on Obscura by h4ckf0r0day.

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