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ulixee/hero

The web browser built for scraping observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/ulixee/hero · TypeScript · MIT (permissive) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

69/100

  • Activity 82
  • Release rhythm 35
  • 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: 79.5
  • age_days: 1862
  • days_rel: 359
  • days_push: 109
  • n_releases_24m: 5

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

1554 stars · 74 forks observed · 2026-08-28

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

Hero is a headless web browser built specifically for web scraping, powered by Chrome and controlled from NodeJS with a fully compliant DOM API. It includes browser emulation and full-stack anti-detection features to avoid being blocked by fingerprinting.

Use cases

  • scrape websites that block headless browsers
  • extract data from javascript-heavy pages
  • automate browser interactions without puppeteer evaluate callbacks
  • emulate different browser fingerprints to avoid detection
  • bypass TLS fingerprint blocking
  • parse and query page DOM directly from nodejs

When to avoid

  • you only need simple static HTML fetching
  • you are doing automated UI testing rather than scraping
  • you need a browser in a non-NodeJS language

Facets

library · maturity active

web-scraping http-client browser-extension crawlers web-development cross-platform headless-browser anti-detection browser-emulation chrome dom-automation typescript automation nodejs

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Member repositories

RepositoryRoleHealth v2
ulixee/heromain69

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