# ultrafunkamsterdam/nodriver

Successor of Undetected-Chromedriver. Providing a blazing fast framework for web automation, webscraping, bots and any other creative ideas which are normally hindered by annoying anti bot systems like Captcha / CloudFlare / Imperva / hCaptcha

Repository: https://github.com/ultrafunkamsterdam/nodriver
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/nodriver
Language: Python
License: AGPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Last push: 2026-05-13T13:58:15+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 62/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 82, release rhythm 35, longevity 66
- inputs: {"age_days": 925, "days_push": 112, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 4699, forks 433 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:57.150778+00:00)

## What it is
Nodriver is a fully asynchronous Python browser automation and web scraping library, and the official successor to Undetected-Chromedriver. It communicates directly with Chromium-based browsers via the Chrome DevTools Protocol without Selenium or chromedriver, optimizing for evasion of anti-bot systems like Cloudflare, Captcha, and Imperva.

## Use cases
- scrape websites protected by Cloudflare or other anti-bot systems
- automate browser tasks without selenium or chromedriver
- write async python bots that control chrome
- bypass captcha and WAF checks during web scraping
- automate logins and reuse saved cookies
- find and interact with page elements by text or CSS selector
- connect to an already running chrome debug session

## When to choose
- you need undetected browser automation in Python against anti-bot-protected sites
- you want a lightweight async alternative to Selenium/Playwright for Chromium
- you are migrating from undetected-chromedriver
- you need direct CDP access with sensible defaults

## When to avoid
- you need Firefox or Safari support (Chromium-based browsers only)
- you need a synchronous API
- your project cannot comply with the AGPL-3.0 license
- you need cross-browser testing infrastructure like Playwright or Selenium Grid

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: active
- function: web-scraping, http-client, developer-tools, workflow-automation
- domain: crawlers, web-development, developer-tools
- platform: python, cross-platform
- tags: browser-automation, anti-detection, cdp, async, undetected-chromedriver-successor, chrome, botting, automation

## Member repositories
- ultrafunkamsterdam/nodriver (main) score 62

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:57.150778+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 2026-08-29T18:19:13.798690+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/ultrafunkamsterdam/nodriver (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:57.150778+00:00, sha 357cf8789f6c)
  - registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/nodriver/json (fetched 2026-08-29T09:03:07.872397+00:00, sha b23917688b2b)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.