obscura
About
Obscura is a high-performance headless browser engine built in Rust, optimized for AI agents and web scraping. It embeds the V8 engine directly and supports the Chrome DevTools Protocol (CDP), serving as a drop-in replacement for Puppeteer and Playwright. It features a minimal footprint (~30MB memory), built-in stealth mode for anti-fingerprinting, and native Model Context Protocol (MCP) support, enabling seamless integration into AI agent ecosystems like Claude and Cursor for automated browsing tasks.
Features
- Rust-powered lightweight architecture
- Built-in stealth and anti-fingerprinting
- Native MCP protocol for AI agents
- Puppeteer/Playwright drop-in compatibility
- High-performance parallel scraping engine
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