danielsht (u/danielsht)

danielsht commented on Show HN: Lightpanda, an open-source headless browser in Zig github.com/lightpanda-io/... · Posted by u/fbouvier

fbouvier · 7 months ago

Author here. The browser is made from scratch (not based on Chromium/Webkit), in Zig, using v8 as a JS engine.

Our idea is to build a lightweight browser optimized for AI use cases like LLM training and agent workflows. And more generally any type of web automation.

It's a work in progress, there are hundreds of Web APIs, and for now we just support some of them (DOM, XHR, Fetch). So expect most websites to fail or crash. The plan is to increase coverage over time.

Happy to answer any questions.

danielsht · 7 months ago

Very impressive! At Airtop.ai we looked into lightweight browsers like this one since we run a huge fleet of cloud browsers but found that anything other than a non-headless Chromium based browser would trigger bot detection pretty quickly. Even spoofing user agents triggers bot detection because fingerprinting tools like FingerprintJS will use things like JS features, canvas fingerprinting, WebGL fingerprinting, font enumeration, etc.

Can you share if you've looked into how your browser fares against bot detection tools like these?

danielsht commented on We Automated the Most Thoughtful Secret Santa in Tech History airtop.ai/blog/how-we-aut... · Posted by u/gregorymichael

danielsht · 9 months ago

It was incredible to see our CEO do this in like 15 mins. LLM based web automation is the future, but is also fun and whimsical

danielsht commented on Show HN: Intelligent Browser for Web Automation Powered by AI airtop.ai/... · Posted by u/danielsht

pants2 · 10 months ago

This is a really nice solution to web scraping and page Q&A. It doesn't seem to have much 'automation' in the sense that I can't point it to Google Flights and ask it to book me a flight to Denver. I tried that and it just gave instructions. Or perhaps I'm missing something?

danielsht · 10 months ago

Heya, Marcos from Airtop here.

You're right, it won't book your flight, but what it will do is (in your example) scrape Google Flights and return all the flights that:

1. Leave from Newark 2. After 6:30PM 3. That cost less than $200 4. Take no longer than 4 hrs 29 min 5. with only 173 kg CO2e

So you can be THAT specific and then it will tell you exactly what to book

danielsht commented on Show HN: Intelligent Browser for Web Automation Powered by AI airtop.ai/... · Posted by u/danielsht

aliabramovitz · 10 months ago

This sounds cool. How can i check it out?

danielsht · 10 months ago

You can create a free account via our website: https://www.airtop.ai ! You should check out the Studio once you create your account so you can experiment with some prompts and examples

danielsht commented on Show HN: Intelligent Browser for Web Automation Powered by AI airtop.ai/... · Posted by u/danielsht

MidhaelBollox · 10 months ago

I meant the discord server for airtop

danielsht · 10 months ago

Heya, we don't have a Discord server just yet, but it's super cool to know there's sufficient interest in having one. For now, though, I'd be happy to answer any questions here or over emails.

danielsht commented on Show HN: Intelligent Browser for Web Automation Powered by AI airtop.ai/... · Posted by u/danielsht

MidhaelBollox · 10 months ago

Discord

danielsht · 10 months ago

You can probably scrape that too! What sort of data would you be looking to get?