# lightpanda-io/browser

> 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.

- Magnitude: 6.3 out of 10 — Breakout
- Stars: 37,908 total · +78 stars measured 2026-10-30, 10:49–13:01 UTC, ≈ 238 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: AI agents · Language: Zig · License: AGPL-3.0 · Created: 2023-02-07 · Last push: 2026-10-30
- GitHub: https://github.com/lightpanda-io/browser · Homepage: https://lightpanda.io · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/lightpanda-io/browser

## 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.

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-30 (UTC), 10:49–13:01: 37830 → 37908 stars (+78). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +238 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- Over the last two days the pace is 9.3× that of the previous week and a half.
- GitHub Trending today: #15, +559 stars.
- About 29 forks a day — people are taking the code.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 1,849
- Issues and pull requests: 4,289
- Watchers: 95
- Average over the last week: 159 per day
- Usual pace: 52 per day
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 36
- Latest release: 1.0.2 (2026-10-23)

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-10-01 … 2026-10-30: 15, 190, 84, 49, 24, 41, 58, 52, 43, 58, 65, 81, 74, 72, 52, 43, 50, 48, 65, 43, 44, 48, 45, 41, 50, 26, 52, 80, 626, 78

## Spotted in now

- GitHub Trending today: #15, +559 stars

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   A framework for web automation and testing that drives Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit through a single API. Suited for end-to-end tests, automation scripts, and AI agents controlling browsers.
   Full card: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/microsoft/playwright.md

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-10-30 13:16 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.