# h4ckf0r0day/obscura

The headless browser for AI agents and web scraping

Repository: https://github.com/h4ckf0r0day/obscura
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/obscura
Homepage: https://obscura.sh
Language: Rust
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: antidetect, antidetect-browser, browser, browser-automation, cdp, headless, playwright, puppeteer, rust
Last push: 2026-08-24T09:28:00+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 81/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 99, longevity 10
- inputs: {"age_days": 142, "days_push": 9, "days_rel": 10, "gap_med": 12, "n_releases_24m": 14}
- flags: young
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 22334, forks 1657 (observed 2026-08-28T04:11:32.540133+00:00)

## What it is
Obscura is an open-source headless browser engine written in Rust that runs JavaScript via V8 and speaks the Chrome DevTools Protocol, acting as a drop-in replacement for headless Chrome with Puppeteer and Playwright. It offers built-in anti-detect/stealth features, isolated zero-state sessions, fast startup, low memory usage, and an MCP server for AI agents.

## Use cases
- scrape websites without getting blocked by bot detection
- give AI agents isolated browser sessions
- replace headless Chrome with a lighter faster alternative
- run thousands of concurrent browser sessions cheaply
- extract markdown or structured data from web pages
- connect existing Playwright or Puppeteer scripts over CDP

## When to choose
- you need anti-detect stealth browsing out of the box
- memory footprint and startup time of Chrome are bottlenecks at scale
- you want reproducible, stateless browser sessions for agents or scraping pipelines
- you want to keep existing Puppeteer/Playwright code without rewrites

## When to avoid
- you need full Chrome feature parity including extensions and devtools UI
- your automation depends on Chrome-specific APIs or behaviors not implemented in the engine
- you need a mature battle-tested engine for complex real-user-like browsing

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: active
- function: http-client, web-scraping, browser-extension, mcp, parser
- domain: web-development, artificial-intelligence, crawlers, developer-tools
- platform: rust, windows, self-hosted, cli
- tags: headless-browser, antidetect, cdp, playwright, puppeteer, stealth, browser-automation, ai-agents, automation, linux, macos, docker

## Member repositories
- h4ckf0r0day/obscura (main) score 81

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:32.540133+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 2026-08-29T16:57:21.132519+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/h4ckf0r0day/obscura (fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:32.540133+00:00, sha f9500b795fd5)
  - homepage: https://obscura.sh (fetched 2026-08-29T07:55:39.748899+00:00, sha b34bcd65db52)
  - site_page: https://docs.obscura.sh/ (fetched 2026-08-29T07:55:39.758017+00:00, sha 4409968178a9)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.