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microlinkhq/browserless

The headless Chrome/Chromium driver on top of Puppeteer. Take screenshots, generate PDFs, extract text and HTML with a production-ready API. observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/microlinkhq/browserless · homepage · JavaScript · MIT (permissive) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

95/100

  • Activity 99
  • Release rhythm 87
  • 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: 1.0
  • age_days: 3283
  • days_rel: 8
  • days_push: 7
  • n_releases_24m: 121

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

1831 stars · 92 forks observed · 2026-08-28

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

A Node.js library that wraps Puppeteer to provide a production-ready headless Chrome/Chromium driver with built-in screenshot, PDF generation, and text/HTML extraction APIs. It includes an adblocker, automatic retries, a CLI, and optional Lighthouse integration.

Use cases

  • take screenshots of web pages programmatically
  • generate PDFs from URLs
  • extract text and HTML from websites
  • scrape pages with headless Chrome in Node.js
  • run Lighthouse audits on URLs
  • manage and respawn headless browser sessions reliably

When to choose

  • you need a robust Puppeteer wrapper with retries, pooling, and sane defaults
  • you want built-in screenshot, PDF, text, and HTML extraction without writing boilerplate
  • you want ad-blocking to speed up headless page loads

When to avoid

  • you need a hosted browser API service rather than a self-managed library
  • you are not using Node.js or Puppeteer
  • you need full low-level control over every Puppeteer API detail

Facets

library · maturity active

web-scraping http-client pdf image-processing cli developer-tools web-development crawlers developer-tools cli cross-platform headless-browser puppeteer chromium screenshot browser-automation lighthouse automation nodejs

2 sources

Member repositories

RepositoryRoleHealth v2
microlinkhq/browserlessmain95

For agents

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