Headless Python Packages

xvfbwrapper

Manage headless displays with Xvfb (X virtual framebuffer)

crawlee

Crawlee—A web scraping and browser automation library for Python to build reliable crawlers. Extract data for AI, LLMs, RAG, or GPTs. Download HTML, PDF, JPG, PNG, and other files from websites. Works with Parsel, BeautifulSoup, Playwright, and raw HTTP. Both headful and headless mode. With proxy rotation.

pychrome

A Python Package for the Google Chrome Dev Protocol [threading base]

abx-dl

⬇️ A simple all-in-one CLI tool to download EVERYTHING from a URL (like youtube-dl/yt-dlp, forum-dl, gallery-dl, simpler ArchiveBox). 🎭 Uses headless Chrome to get HTML, JS, CSS, images/video/audio/subtitles, PDFs, screenshots, article text, git repos, and more...

rebrowser-playwright

A drop-in replacement for playwright-python patched with rebrowser-patches. It allows to pass modern automation detection tests.

wagtail-headless-preview

Previews for headless Wagtail setups

gda

Godot AI agent CLI, Skill, and MCP server with structured JSON/schema output — headless scene/script/export automation plus live runtime control.

minihost

A headless, JUCE-based audio plugin host that supports VST3, AudioUnit, and LV2 plugins. It provides a C/C++ API for integration and a Python API powered by nanobind.

django-admin-rest-api

Make your Django admin headless in two lines: add it to INSTALLED_APPS, include the URLs. Every ModelAdmin you've already registered becomes a JSON REST endpoint — same permissions, same forms, same audit log. No parallel auth, no parallel validation, no rewrites. A drop-in API surface for React frontends, MCP servers, and any other JSON client.

pyload-ng

The free and open-source Download Manager written in pure Python

screaming-frog-mcp

Headless MCP server for Screaming Frog SEO Spider – run crawls, export and analyze crawl data via the CLI. Small locked-down tool surface for scheduled audits, CI, and unattended AI agents.

ichrome

Chrome controller for Humans, based on Chrome Devtools Protocol(CDP) and python3.7+.

cproto

Chrome Debugging client for Python

backpropagate

Headless LLM fine-tuning in 3 lines — smart defaults, VRAM-aware batch sizing, multi-run SLAO, GGUF export for Ollama.

headless-kivy

Headless renderer and test helper for Kivy framework

mach-composer

MACH composer is an orchestration tool for modern MACH ecosystems, powered by Terraform infrastructure-as-code underneath.

xhs-cli-headless

Headless-friendly Xiaohongshu CLI fork focused on QR login, session tooling, and agent-safe automation

headless-ida

Run IDA scripts headlessly.

webcap

An ultra lightweight web screenshot tool with advanced DOM analysis features.

django-salesman

Headless e-commerce framework for Django and Wagtail.

headless-kivy-pi

Headless renderer for Kivy framework

filechooser-portal-mock

Mock xdg-desktop-portal FileChooser D-Bus service for automating native file dialogs in headless/CI GUI and browser tests

headless-driver

Lightweight Python library to manage Selenium Chrome WebDriver in headless mode with proxy, stealth, auto-driver installation, multi-driver management, download handling, and advanced search scraping utilities.

formulon

Headless Excel 365 calculation engine (C++17) — WASM, Python, and native CLI.