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lightpanda-io/browser

AI agentsZig#browser#cdp#headless#playwright#puppeteer
Total stars
37,878
Today
+48since 10:49 UTC
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Lightpanda: the headless browser designed for AI and automation

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About the project

Lightpanda is a headless browser written from scratch in Zig, designed for AI agents and automation. It is not a Chromium fork and uses ~16x less memory and runs ~9x faster than headless Chrome.

Useful for
  • Run Puppeteer or Playwright scripts against Lightpanda's CDP server to scrape pages with less memory.
  • Dump a URL to HTML, Markdown, PNG, PDF or structured JSON-LD data from the command line.
  • Drive the browser with the built-in agent mode and export a deterministic PandaScript for replay.

README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate. Read the original README →

6.2 Breakout Magnitude out of 10 — how fast interest is growing, not a quality score.

Star growth looks organic. Data as of October 30, 2026, 12:29 UTC.

The star-growth assessment does not verify whether the project is safe to run.

Stars per day

0400800August 2, 2026October 30, 2026

Bars show stars per UTC day; the line is a moving average of available history. Gaps mean missing data, not zero growth. Today's bar is incomplete. Red marks spike days.

Why it’s trending

  • Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-30 (UTC), 10:49–12:16: 37830 → 37878 stars (+48). This is the change over that interval.
  • Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +215 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
  • Over the last two days the pace is 9× that of the previous week and a half.
  • GitHub Trending today: #15, +559 stars.
  • About 29 forks a day — people are taking the code.

Measured growth: the last 7 completed days

New stars over 7 days: 920. +170% versus the preceding 7 days.

Daily measurements · UTC
October 23, 2026
45
October 24, 2026
41
October 25, 2026
50
October 26, 2026
26
October 27, 2026
52
October 28, 2026
80
October 29, 2026
626

Largest measured day in the last 30 days: 626 · October 29, 2026. Days with data: 30.

Completed days come from GitHub star history; today and forecasts are excluded from this comparison. History checked: October 30, 2026, 12:28 UTC. Sources and measurement limits →

Three GitHub discoveries in each edition

What they do, why they are gaining interest, and what to check before using them.

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Numbers

Total stars
37,878
Today
+48 stars measured 2026-10-30, 10:49–12:16 UTC, ≈ 215 by evening
Forks
1,849
Issues and pull requests
4,288
Watchers
95
Language
Zig
License
AGPL-3.0
Latest release
1.0.2 · October 23, 2026
Created
February 7, 2023
Last push
October 30, 2026

Star trust

Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.

These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.

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