{"data":{"slug":"lightpanda","name":"Lightpanda","tagline":"AGPL-3.0 headless browser written in Zig for agents and scraping","category":"agents","categoryName":"AI Agents","url":"https://lightpanda.io","github":"https://github.com/lightpanda-io/browser","pricing":"open-source","hook":"Lightpanda is a headless browser written from scratch in Zig for AI agents and scraping. It speaks the Chrome DevTools Protocol (CDP), so Puppeteer- and Playwright-style clients can drive it, and it is much lighter than headless Chrome.","whatsGood":"AGPL-3.0 (lightpanda-io/browser), release 1.0.1 (2026-10-15), commit on 2026-10-20. Useful when you run many headless sessions and Chrome's memory and startup cost is the bottleneck.","theCatch":"AGPL-3.0, and it is not full Chrome: pages that rely on Web APIs it has not implemented yet will break, so test your target sites first. ★~36.8k in about 193 weeks (~190 a week) with 99 watchers: judge it on the engine, not the star count.","verdict":"A real, lightweight CDP browser for agent fleets; keep Chrome around for the sites it cannot render.","addedAt":"2026-10-20","featured":false,"domain":"AI Agents","subSpecialty":"Agents","subcategory":"Browser Automation","tags":["self-host","copyleft","browser-automation","scraping","active"],"capabilities":["browser"],"surfaces":["Self-host"],"ecosystem":["Multi-platform"],"licenseModel":"AGPL-3.0","githubStars":36760,"starsPerWeek":190,"access":"free","archived":false,"repo":{"createdAt":"2023-02-07","pushedAt":"2026-10-20","license":"AGPL-3.0","archived":false,"checkedAt":"2026-10-20"}},"related":[{"slug":"claude-code","name":"Claude Code","tagline":"Terminal-first coding agent with deep repository context"},{"slug":"cursor","name":"Cursor","tagline":"The AI-first code editor that understands your codebase"},{"slug":"devin","name":"Devin","tagline":"Autonomous AI engineer for defined engineering tasks"},{"slug":"stagehand","name":"Stagehand","tagline":"AI-native browser automation that mixes code and natural language"},{"slug":"browser-use","name":"Browser Use","tagline":"Open-source framework for LLM-driven browser agents"}],"links":{"self":"/api/gems/lightpanda","html":"/gems/lightpanda","markdown":"/gems/lightpanda.md","category":"/api/gems?category=agents","categoryPage":"/stacks/agents"}}