headless — independent software & tools

25 independent headless listings the big search engines bury.

• AstroCrawl

  github · Free · by Etoileint

  Async web crawler powered by Playwright headless Chromium — JavaScript rendering, AI-powered extraction (OpenAI / Anthropic / Google), CSS rule engine with visual preview, and a full PySide6 desktop GUI. SQLite WAL crash recovery, proxy circuit breaker, RFC 9309 robots.txt, ReDoS-immune regex, 3,822 tests. pip install astrocrawl[full,gui,fast].

• gissen

  github · Free · by gissen-dev

  The headless visual editor for Vue 3. Agent-native, self-hostable, MIT.

• agent-browser

  npm · Free · by GitHub Actions

  Browser automation CLI for AI agents

• apify

  npm · Free · by GitHub Actions

  The scalable web crawling and scraping library for JavaScript/Node.js. Enables development of data extraction and web automation jobs (not only) with headless Chrome and Puppeteer.

• @askjo/camofox-browser

  npm · Free · by GitHub Actions

  Headless browser automation server and OpenClaw plugin for AI agents - anti-detection, element refs, and session isolation

• @cloudflare/puppeteer

  npm · Free · by celso

  A high-level API to control headless Chrome over the DevTools Protocol

• @crawlee/core

  npm · Free · by GitHub Actions

  The scalable web crawling and scraping library for JavaScript/Node.js. Enables development of data extraction and web automation jobs (not only) with headless Chrome and Puppeteer.

• @openuidev/react-headless

  npm · Free · by GitHub Actions

  Headless React primitives for AI chat — state management, streaming adapters for OpenAI and AG-UI, message format converters, and thread management for OpenUI generative UI apps

• payload

  npm · Free · by elliotpayload

  Node, React, Headless CMS and Application Framework built on Next.js

• @puckeditor/core

  npm · Free · by chrisvxd

  The open-source visual editor for React

• puppeteer-core

  npm · Free · by GitHub Actions

  A high-level API to control headless Chrome over the DevTools Protocol

• @sanity/cli

  npm · Free · by GitHub Actions

  Sanity CLI tool for managing Sanity projects and organizations

• @sanity/client

  npm · Free · by sanity-svc.npm

  Client for retrieving, creating and patching data from Sanity.io

• @sanity/code-input

  npm · Free · by GitHub Actions

  Sanity input component for code, powered by CodeMirror

• @sanity/color-input

  npm · Free · by GitHub Actions

  Color input

• sanity-plugin-media

  npm · Free · by GitHub Actions

  This version of `sanity-plugin-media` is for Sanity Studio V3.

• @sanity/sdk

  npm · Free · by sanity-svc.npm

  Sanity SDK

• termless

  github · Free · by beorn

  Like Playwright, but for terminal apps — headless testing across xterm.js, Ghostty, Alacritty, WezTerm, and more

• ink-enhanced-select-input

  github · Free · by gfargo

  Feature-rich select input for Ink — multi-select, live search, headless hook, vim keys, scroll indicators, and more.

• page-agent

  github · Free · by rotss2

  Control web pages using natural language commands through a lightweight, TypeScript-based GUI agent integrated into your webpage.

• streamlib

  github · Free · by tatolab

  Control runtime for building things in the Physical AI space. Everything from self piloting vehicles to humanoid robots. Purposefully built to fuse LLM / AI control policies with your code

• pa11y

  npm · Free · by GitHub Actions

  Pa11y is your automated accessibility testing pal

• @portabletext/toolkit

  npm · Free · by GitHub Actions

  Toolkit of handy utility functions for dealing with Portable Text

• rebrowser-puppeteer-core

  npm · Free · by nwebson

  A drop-in replacement for puppeteer-core patched with rebrowser-patches. It allows to pass modern automation detection tests.

• @sanity/generate-help-url

  npm · Free · by sanity-svc.npm

  Generates URLs to specific sections of the Sanity documentation