cloudscraper VS rust-headless-chrome

Compare cloudscraper vs rust-headless-chrome and see what are their differences.

rust-headless-chrome

A high-level API to control headless Chrome or Chromium over the DevTools Protocol. It is the Rust equivalent of Puppeteer, a Node library maintained by the Chrome DevTools team. (by rust-headless-chrome)
Our great sponsors
  • InfluxDB - Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale
  • WorkOS - The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS
  • SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews
cloudscraper rust-headless-chrome
19 7
3,974 2,076
- 3.9%
1.5 7.2
2 months ago 18 days ago
Python Rust
MIT License MIT License
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

cloudscraper

Posts with mentions or reviews of cloudscraper. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-13.

rust-headless-chrome

Posts with mentions or reviews of rust-headless-chrome. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-27.
  • Recent 'MFA Bombing' Attacks Targeting Apple Users
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Mar 2024
    I'm using this to fill forms interactively and emulate a user. https://github.com/rust-headless-chrome/rust-headless-chrome

    Afaict, it drives a stock Chromium instance. I'm not sure how Fidelity is detecting it, but they detect it even in normal headful mode. Idk if there's some JS that notices there's no mouse-move movements.

    It's just not worth the headache. I despise bending over backwards for companies like this. But obviously I have no choice since they're my 401k plan facilitator.

  • Web scraping with Playwright?
    3 projects | /r/rust | 9 Dec 2023
    Thanks, I was looking into that as well and got their example up and running. I also saw that chromiumoxide mentions rust-headless-chrome in its references section in the README, which is also updated recently, any differences between the two? Seems like chromiumoxide is async with code gen whereas rust-headless-chrome is not, is that right?
  • headless_chrome v1.0.x is now released!
    1 project | /r/rust | 14 Feb 2023
  • mdbook-pdf: A mdBook backend for generating PDF files
    9 projects | dev.to | 29 Jan 2022
    mdBook allows you to create book from markdown files. It's pretty much alike Gitbook but implemented in Rust. However, unlike Gitbook that supports using calibre for generating PDF, for a long time, mdBook doesn't support generating PDF files natively, and supporting that is also not in their roadmap. Existing plugins (backends) such as mdbook-latex that utilize Tectonic as well as pandoc solutions will generate a PDF page that doesn't unify with the existing mdBook generated HTML version. Considering these facts, I created a mdBook backend named mdbook-pdf for generating PDF based on headless chrome and Chrome DevTools Protocol Page.printToPDF.
  • Is Rust really only good for larger-scale projects?
    5 projects | /r/rust | 5 Oct 2021
  • What libraries do you miss from other languages?
    29 projects | /r/rust | 11 Sep 2021
    There's https://github.com/stevepryde/thirtyfour for Selenium, and https://github.com/atroche/rust-headless-chrome for Chromium.
  • Looking for maintainers: Headless Chrome crate
    1 project | /r/rust | 3 Jun 2021
    I published headless-chrome a few years ago, but I haven't cut a new release in almost two years now — despite the issues and pull requests piling up. I'm not relying on it for my work like I was previously, and I just don't have the spare energy to be a good maintainer.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing cloudscraper and rust-headless-chrome you can also consider the following projects:

cloudflare-scrape - A Python module to bypass Cloudflare's anti-bot page.

Ink - 🌈 React for interactive command-line apps

FlareSolverr - Proxy server to bypass Cloudflare protection

tiny-skia - A tiny Skia subset ported to Rust

vouch-proxy - an SSO and OAuth / OIDC login solution for Nginx using the auth_request module

zeal - Offline documentation browser inspired by Dash

aws-sdk-rust - AWS SDK for the Rust Programming Language

fantoccini - A high-level API for programmatically interacting with web pages through WebDriver.

SaintCoinach - A .NET library written in C# for extracting game assets and reading game assets from Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn.

crates.io - The Rust package registry

thirtyfour - Selenium WebDriver client for Rust, for automated testing of websites

Trex - Package Manager for deno 🦕