Lightpanda Headless Browser for AI Automation
Lightpanda is a headless browser built from scratch in Zig, purpose-designed for AI agents and web automation. It delivers 11x faster page rendering and 9x lower memory usage than Chrome while maintaining full CDP compatibility with Playwright, Puppeteer, and chromedp.
Installation
Use the upstream install or setup path that matches your environment:
- brew install lightpanda-io/browser/lightpanda
- docker run -d --name lightpanda -p 127.0.0.1:9222:9222 lightpanda/browser:nightly
- brew install cmake
- make test # Run all tests
Requirements and caveats from upstream:
- Install from Docker
- Lightpanda provides [official Docker
- images](https://hub.docker.com/r/lightpanda/browser) for both Linux amd64 and
Basic usage or getting-started notes:
Package Managers
Latest nightly from Homebrew:
console
Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lightpanda-io/browser/HEAD/README.md