Installation

Linux x86_64

curl -LO https://github.com/h4ckf0r0day/obscura/releases/latest/download/obscura-x86_64-linux.tar.gz
tar xzf obscura-x86_64-linux.tar.gz
./obscura --version

Linux ARM64

curl -LO https://github.com/h4ckf0r0day/obscura/releases/latest/download/obscura-aarch64-linux.tar.gz
tar xzf obscura-aarch64-linux.tar.gz
./obscura --version

Linux builds target Ubuntu 22.04 and require glibc 2.35+.

macOS Apple Silicon

curl -LO https://github.com/h4ckf0r0day/obscura/releases/latest/download/obscura-aarch64-macos.tar.gz
tar xzf obscura-aarch64-macos.tar.gz
./obscura --version

macOS Intel

curl -LO https://github.com/h4ckf0r0day/obscura/releases/latest/download/obscura-x86_64-macos.tar.gz
tar xzf obscura-x86_64-macos.tar.gz
./obscura --version

Windows

Download the .zip from Releases, extract, run obscura.exe --version.

Arch Linux (AUR)

yay -S obscura-browser

Docker

docker run -d --name obscura -p 127.0.0.1:9222:9222 h4ckf0r0day/obscura

Image: h4ckf0r0day/obscura. Built on distroless/cc, ~57 MB compressed.

From source

See Build from source.

What's in the archive

• obscura: CLI and CDP server.
• obscura-worker: helper for the parallel scrape command. Keep both in the same directory.

Smoke test

./obscura fetch https://example.com --eval "document.title"

Expected output: "Example Domain".

Troubleshooting

cannot execute binary file: wrong arch. Check uname -m.

GLIBC_2.35 not found: distro is older than Ubuntu 22.04. Use Docker or build from source.

macOS Gatekeeper warning: xattr -d com.apple.quarantine ./obscura.