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<a href="https://lightpanda.io"><img src="https://cdn.lightpanda.io/assets/images/logo/lpd-logo.png" alt="Logo" height=170></a>
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<h1 align="center">Lightpanda</h1>
<h1 align="center">Lightpanda Browser</h1>

<p align="center"><a href="https://lightpanda.io/">lightpanda.io</a></p>

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Fast scraping and web automation with minimal memory footprint:

- Ultra-low memory footprint (12x less than Chrome)
- Blazingly fast & instant startup (64x faster than Chrome)
- Ultra-low memory footprint (9x less than Chrome)
- Blazingly fast execution (11x faster than Chrome) & instant startup

<img width=500px src="https://cdn.lightpanda.io/assets/images/benchmark2.png">
<img width=500px src="https://cdn.lightpanda.io/assets/images/benchmark_2024-12-04.png">

See [benchmark details](https://github.com/lightpanda-io/demo).

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### Chrome is not the right tool

So if we need Javascript, why not use a real web browser. Let’s take a huge desktop application, hack it, and run it on the server, right? Hundreds of instance of Chrome if you use it at scale. Are you sure it’s such a good idea?
So if we need Javascript, why not use a real web browser. Let’s take a huge desktop application, hack it, and run it on the server, right? Hundreds or thousands of instances of Chrome if you use it at scale. Are you sure it’s such a good idea?

- Heavy on RAM and CPU, expensive to run
- Hard to package, deploy and maintain at scale
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- Not based on Chromium, Blink or WebKit
- Low-level system programming language (Zig) with optimisations in mind
- Opinionated, no rendering
- Opinionated, without graphical rendering

## Status

Lightpanda is still a work in progress and is currently at a Beta stage.

Here are the key features we have implemented:

- [x] Loader
- [x] HTTP loader
- [x] HTML parser and DOM tree
- [x] Javascript support
- [x] Javascript support (v8)
- [x] Basic DOM APIs
- [x] Ajax
- [x] XHR API
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