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Re:Lightpanda: The headless browser designed for AI and auto... by nwienert on Friday January 24, 2025 @04:07PM (#42816943)
Playwright can run webkit very easily and it's dramatically less resource-intensive than Chrome.
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Re:Lightpanda: The headless browser designed for AI and auto... by fbouvier on Friday January 24, 2025 @06:16PM (#42817875)
Yes but WebKit is not a browser per se, it's a rendering engine.

It's less resource-intensive than Chrome, but here we are talking orders of magnitude between Lightpanda and Chrome. If you are ~10x faster while using ~10x less RAM you are using ~100x less resources.

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Re:Lightpanda: The headless browser designed for AI and auto... by bdhcuidbebe on Friday January 24, 2025 @08:13PM (#42818518)
How well does it compare to specialized headless scraper browsers, like camoufox (firefox based) or secret agent (chrome based)?

Either should reduce your ram usage compared to stock chrome by a lot.

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Re:Lightpanda: The headless browser designed for AI and auto... by whatevaa on Saturday January 25, 2025 @05:31AM (#42820785)
Careful, as you implement misssing features your RAM usage might grow too. Happened to many projects, lean at the beggining, get's just as slow when dealing with real world mesiness.
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Re:Lightpanda: The headless browser designed for AI and auto... by msoad on Saturday January 25, 2025 @07:19AM (#42821198)
Does it work nicely on Linux? I'm very curious about this
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