Top 9 Go Headless Projects

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1. katana

   1 10 13,587 9.0 Go

   A next-generation crawling and spidering framework.

   

   Project mention: Ask HN: How to find subdomains and paths for a website | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-06-01

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3. chromedp

   2 30 11,716 6.8 Go

   A faster, simpler way to drive browsers supporting the Chrome DevTools Protocol.

   

   Project mention: Practical Ways to Generate PDFs in Go: Libraries, LaTeX, Pandoc, Chrome | dev.to | 2025-04-27

   chromedp lets you programmatically control Chrome.

4. rod

   3 22 5,861 7.7 Go

   A Chrome DevTools Protocol driver for web automation and scraping.

   

   Project mention: Show HN: Puremd-mcp – MCP server for reliably accessing web content | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-04-01

   nice, i've been using https://github.com/go-rod/rod or python playwright for this and doing the logic to clean the html into text. But this is nice 1 step solution.

5. gowitness

   4 7 3,693 9.1 Go

   🔍 gowitness - a golang, web screenshot utility using Chrome Headless

   

   Project mention: Gowitness – a CLI screenshot utility that uses Chrome headless | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-09-17

   v3 just released with plenty of new features, optimizations and more! https://github.com/sensepost/gowitness/releases/tag/3.0.0

6. crawlergo

   5 1 2,909 0.5 Go

   A powerful browser crawler for web vulnerability scanners

   

7. playwright-go

   6 8 2,621 6.6 Go

   Playwright for Go a browser automation library to control Chromium, Firefox and WebKit with a single API.

   

8. gocommerce

   7 1 1,566 0.0 Go

   A headless e-commerce for JAMstack sites.

   

9. InfluxDB

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   InfluxDB high-performance time series database. Collect, organize, and act on massive volumes of high-resolution data to power real-time intelligent systems.

   

10. Dataflow kit

    8 0 678 0.0 Go

    Extract structured data from web sites. Web sites scraping.

    

11. bartender

    9 2 22 7.2 Go

    A service to make web crawlers consume webpages easier (by go-rod)

    

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