# saifyxpro/HeadlessX

The undetected self-hosted browser automation platform. Powered by Camoufox (Firefox) for 0% detection rates. Built for speed, privacy, and scalability.

Repository: https://github.com/saifyxpro/HeadlessX
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/headlessx
Homepage: https://headlessx.saify.me
Language: TypeScript
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: automation, browser-automation, browserless, chromedriver, headless, automation-api, automation-platform, browser-testing, chrome-headless, data-extraction, headless-chrome, headless-service, playwright, playwright-automation, puppeteer, scraping-service, web-automation, web-scraping, container-automation
Last push: 2026-08-26T10:08:00+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 76/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 76, longevity 25
- inputs: {"age_days": 355, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 161, "gap_med": 6, "n_releases_24m": 10}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2268, forks 271 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:32.637754+00:00)

## What it is
HeadlessX is a self-hosted browser automation and web scraping platform powered by Camoufox (a C++-patched Firefox) to bypass anti-bot systems like Cloudflare, Akamai, and Datadome. It exposes a TypeScript REST/SSE API, a Next.js operator dashboard, a CLI, queued crawl jobs, and a remote MCP endpoint for AI agents, covering website extraction, Google/Tavily/Exa search, and YouTube workflows.

## Use cases
- scrape websites without getting blocked by cloudflare
- self-hosted browserless scraping api
- extract js-rendered html and screenshots from pages
- crawl a site and convert pages to markdown
- get google search results programmatically
- extract youtube metadata and subtitles
- give ai agents browser automation via mcp
- bypass datadome and akamai anti-bot protection

## When to choose
- you need undetected headless scraping at scale with fingerprint spoofing
- you want a self-hosted alternative to browserless or Firecrawl-style APIs
- you need one API for web extraction, SERP data, and YouTube metadata
- you want to expose browser automation to LLM agents over MCP

## When to avoid
- you only need simple scraping of sites without anti-bot protection
- you cannot self-host Docker-based infrastructure
- you need a fully managed cloud service
- you require a permissive license (AGPL-3.0)

## Facets
- artifact type: service
- maturity: active
- function: web-scraping, http-server, api-framework, search-engine, mcp, cli, pdf, data-science
- domain: crawlers, web-development, self-hosted, developer-tools, artificial-intelligence
- platform: self-hosted, cli, windows
- tags: anti-detect, camoufox, playwright, browser-automation, scraping-api, anti-bot-bypass, fingerprint-spoofing, youtube-extraction, serp-scraping, mcp-server, nextjs-dashboard, agpl, search, automation, docker, nodejs, web-server, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- saifyxpro/HeadlessX (main) score 76

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:32.637754+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:42:02.758030+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/saifyxpro/HeadlessX (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:32.637754+00:00, sha 3b76c688c600)
  - homepage: https://headlessx.saify.me (fetched 2026-08-29T10:22:52.738722+00:00, sha 6754fd1aaf35)
  - site_page: https://headlessx.saify.me/docs/get-started/introduction (fetched 2026-08-29T10:22:52.741117+00:00, sha 85cc7b6658c6)
  - site_page: https://headlessx.saify.me/docs/get-started/quick-start (fetched 2026-08-29T10:22:52.742898+00:00, sha 309c9a8b61f7)
  - site_page: https://headlessx.saify.me/docs/api-reference/overview (fetched 2026-08-29T10:22:52.744513+00:00, sha 464ca1a89a97)
  - site_page: https://headlessx.saify.me/docs/developers/monorepo-structure (fetched 2026-08-29T10:22:52.746527+00:00, sha 00422c40435a)
  - site_page: https://headlessx.saify.me/docs/get-started/integrations (fetched 2026-08-29T10:22:52.748731+00:00, sha fc66c829228e)
  - site_page: https://headlessx.saify.me/docs/get-started/resources (fetched 2026-08-29T10:22:52.750447+00:00, sha 126a4a934f1c)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.