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3 self-hosted Browserless alternatives

Cloud-hosted headless browser platform providing managed Chrome/Playwright/Puppeteer instances and REST/WebSocket APIs for web automation, scraping, testing, PDF/screenshot generation, CAPTCHA handling, session management, scaling, monitoring, and debugging.

Alternatives to Browserless

FlareSolverr is a proxy server with a REST API that uses a headless Chrome session to solve Cloudflare/DDoS-GUARD challenges and return HTML and cookies.

15.3k stars1.2k forksMITlast commit Actively maintained

Scraperr is a self-hosted web scraping app with a web UI, XPath extraction, job queueing, domain spidering, media downloads, and CSV/Markdown export.

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4.9k stars249 forksMITlast commit Slowing down

Self-hosted HTTP API to render web pages to PNG with configurable viewport, caching, Playwright-based parallel rendering, and S3/CouchDB/filesystem storage.

URL to PNG screenshot

251 stars38 forksMITlast commit Actively maintained

What replacing Browserless actually involves

Every option on this page is open source and free to run on your own hardware, so you own the data and there is no subscription to cancel. 2 of 3 shipped a commit in the last six months. Licences in this list: MIT. In exchange you take on hosting, backups and updates yourself.

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