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A list of (almost) all headless web browsers in existence

Headless Browsers

A list of (almost) all headless web browsers in existence

A web browser without a graphical user interface, controlled programmatically. Used for automation, testing, and other purposes.

Name	About	Supported Languages	License
Awesomium	Chromium-based headless browser engine	C++, .NET	Free/Commerical
benv	Stub a browser environment in node.js and headlessly test your client-side code.	JavaScript	MIT
browser-launcher	Detect and launch browser versions, headlessly or otherwise	JavaScript	MIT
browser.rb	Headless Ruby browser on top of Nokogiri and TheRubyRacer	Ruby	Not specified
Browserjet	Headless webkit browser with node.js interface.	JavaScript	Not specified
BrowserKit	BrowserKit simulates the behavior of a web browser.	PHP	MIT
CasperJS	CasperJS is an open source navigation scripting & testing utility written in Javascript for the PhantomJS WebKit headless browser and SlimerJS (Gecko).	JavaScript	MIT
Chromium Embedded Framework	CEF is a open source project based on the Google Chromium project.	JavaScript	BSD
DalekJS	Automated cross browser testing with JavaScript.	JavaScript	MIT
Erik	Headless browser on top of Kanna and WebKit.	Swift	MIT
Geb	Geb is a browser automation solution.	Groovy	Apache
ghost.py	ghost.py is a webkit web client written in python.	Python	MIT
Ghostbuster	Automated browser testing via phantom.js, with all of the pain taken out! That means you get a real browser, with a real DOM, and can do real testing!	JavaScript	Not specified
grope	A non-GUI library to represent browser environment using WebKit Framework + RubyCocoa	Ruby	MIT
Headless	Headless browser support for fast web acceptance testing in .Net	.NET	MIT
headless_browser	Headless browser based on WebKit written in C++.	C++	Not Specified
Headless Chromium	Headless Chromium is a library for running Chromium in a headless/server environment.	C++	Not Specified
HeadlessBrowser	A very miniature headless browser, for testing the DOM on Node.js	JavaScript	Not specified
HtmlUnit	HtmlUnit is a "GUI-Less browser for Java programs".	Java	Apache
Jabba-Webkit	Jabba's headless webkit browser for scraping AJAX-powered webpages.	Python	Not specified
Jasmine-Headless-Webkit	jasmine-headless-webkit uses the QtWebKit widget to run your specs without needing to render a pixel.	Python, JavaScript, Ruby	Free
Jaunt	Java Web Scraping & Automation API	Java	Not specified
jBrowserDriver	A Selenium-compatible headless browser which is written in pure Java. WebKit-based. Works with any of the Selenium Server bindings.	Java	Not specified
jedi-crawler	Lightsabing Node/PhantomJS crawler; scrape dynamic content : without the hassle	JavaScript	Not specified
Lotte	Lotte is a headless, automated testing framework built on top of PhantomJS and inspired by Ghostbuster.	JavaScript	MIT
MechanicalSoup	A Python library for automating interaction with websites.	Python	MIT
mechanize	Stateful programmatic web browsing.	Python	BSD-3 clause, ZPL 2.1
Nightmare	Nightmare is a high-level browser automation library built as an easier alternative to PhantomJS.	JavaScript	MIT
PhantomJS	PhantomJS is a headless WebKit scriptable with a JavaScript API. It has fast and native support for various web standards: DOM handling, CSS selector, JSON, Canvas, and SVG.	JavaScript, Python, Ruby, Java, C#, Haskell, Objective-C, Perl, PHP, R(via Selenium)	BSD-3 Clause
phantompy	Phantompy is a headless WebKit engine with powerful pythonic api build on top of Qt5 Webkit	Python	LGPL-2.1
Python-Webkit	Python-Webkit is a python extension to Webkit to add full, complete access to Webkit's DOM	Python	GNU
RoboBrowser	A simple, Pythonic library for browsing the web without a standalone web browser.	Python	BSD-3 clause
Selenium	Selenium is a suite of tools to automate web browsers across many platforms.	JavaScript, Python, Ruby, Java, C#, Haskell, Objective-C, Perl, PHP, R	Apache
SimpleBrowser	A flexible and intuitive web browser engine designed for automation tasks. Built on the .Net 4 framework.	.NET	BSD-3 Clause
SlimerJS	SlimerJS is similar to PhantomJs, except that it runs Gecko, the browser engine of Mozilla Firefox, instead of Webkit (And it is not yet truly headless).	JavaScript	Mozilla 2.0
Splash	Splash is a javascript rendering service with an HTTP API. It's a lightweight browser with an HTTP API, implemented in Python using Twisted and QT.	Any	BSD-3 Clause
Splinter	Splinter is an open source tool for testing web applications using Python. It lets you automate browser actions, such as visiting URLs and interacting with their items.	Python	-
Spynner	Programmatic web browsing module with AJAX support for Python	Python	Not specified
SST	SST (selenium-simple-test) is a web test framework that uses Python to generate functional browser-based tests.	Python	-
stanislaw	Python headless browser testing	Python	Not specified
trifleJS	A headless Internet Explorer browser using the .NET WebBrowser Class with a Javascript API running on the V8 engine.	JavaScript	MIT
twill	Twill is a simple language that allows users to browse the Web from a command-line interface.	Python	MIT
WatiN	Web Application Testing In .Net	.NET	Apache 2.0
Watir	The most elegant way to use Selenium WebDriver with ruby.	Ruby	MIT
Webloop	Scriptable, headless WebKit with a Go API.	Go	BSD-3 Clause
WKZombie	Functional headless browser (with JSON support) for iOS using WebKit and hpple/libxml2.	Swift	MIT
WWW::Mechanize	Headless browser for Perl with many plugins and extensions, notably Test::WWW:Mechanize for testing	Perl	Perl 5
X-RAY	Supports strings, arrays, arrays of objects, nested object structures, selector API, pagination, crawler, concurrency, throttles, delays, timeouts, and pluggable drivers (PhantomJS, HTTP)	JavaScript	MIT
Zombie.js	Zombie.js is a lightweight framework for testing client-side JavaScript code in a simulated environment. No browser required.	JavaScript	MIT