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headzoo/surf

Stateful programmatic web browsing in Go. observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/headzoo/surf · Go · MIT (permissive) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

23/100

  • Activity 0
  • Release rhythm 8
  • Longevity 100
How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: n/a
  • age_days: 4391
  • days_rel: n/a
  • days_push: 952
  • n_releases_24m: 0

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

1544 stars · 160 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Surf is a Go library that implements a stateful virtual web browser controlled programmatically. It supports cookies, history, bookmarks, user agent spoofing, form submission, and DOM traversal via jQuery-style CSS selectors.

Use cases

  • scrape websites with session and cookie state in Go
  • programmatically log into sites and submit forms
  • download pages and extract elements with CSS selectors
  • simulate browser navigation with history and bookmarks
  • spoof user agents when fetching web content

When to choose

  • you need stateful, browser-like browsing (cookies, forms, history) rather than plain HTTP requests
  • you want jQuery-style CSS selector scraping in Go
  • you're building a crawler or automation script in Go

When to avoid

  • you need JavaScript rendering or a real browser engine
  • you only need simple HTTP requests without state
  • you need an actively developed project with frequent updates

Facets

library · maturity maintenance

http-client web-scraping parser web-development crawlers developer-tools go cross-platform virtual-browser goquery form-submission cookie-management stateful-browsing

1 source

Member repositories

RepositoryRoleHealth v2
headzoo/surfmain23

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