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24 alternatives to HeadlessTesting

Chrome as a Service - Generate Screenshots and PDFs

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. HeadlessTesting launched in 2020; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   Ready-to-use API to convert any web page to PDF using headless Chrome▲129

   Loads a web page in headless Chrome using Puppeteer and prints it to PDF. The input is a JSON object and output is a PDF file.

   2017 · apify.com · its alternatives →

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   Headless Recorder▲224

   Chrome extension that records your browser interactions and generates a Playwright or Puppeteer script. - GitHub - checkly/headless-recorder: Chrome extension that records your browser interactions and generates a Playwright or Puppeteer script.

   2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   DeploySentinel Recorder▲95

   Automatically generate Playwright & Puppeteer scripts

   2022 · hyperdx.io · its alternatives →

4. 4
   Headless Recorder v1.0, get Playwright/Puppeteer scripts without coding▲135

   2021 · chrome.google.com · its alternatives →

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   Puppet Master▲137

   Headless Chrome as a service

   2019 · its alternatives →

6. 6PS
   Puppeteer scripts in the Browser, DevTools on remote pages▲52

   2021 · pptrconsole.com · its alternatives →

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   Puppeteer Cloud Testing▲91

   Run automated Puppeteer tests in the cloud

   2023 · testingbot.com · its alternatives →

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   browserless.io▲143

   The full-code, no-ops tool for browser automation

   2023 · browserless.io · its alternatives →

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   Serverless Browser Automation▲5

   Cloud Functions to take control of a Headless Browser

   2020 · testingbot.com · its alternatives →

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    Pdf-Bot, an API/CLI for Generating PDFs Using Headless Chrome▲235

    🤖 A Node queue API for generating PDFs using headless Chrome. Comes with a CLI, S3 storage and webhooks for notifying subscribers about generated PDFs - esbenp/pdf-bot

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Chromeless – Headless Chrome Automation on AWS Lambda▲385

    🖥 Chrome automation made simple. Runs locally or headless on AWS Lambda. - schickling/chromeless

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Getting started with Puppeteer and Chrome Headless for Web Scraping▲142

    Getting started with Puppeteer and Chrome Headless for Web Scraping - emadehsan/thal

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Wizardshot▲487

    Create step-by-step tutorials automatically using AI

    2024 · wizardshot.com · its alternatives →

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    Run Puppeteer on AWS Lambda▲75

    Chromium Binary for AWS Lambda and Google Cloud Functions - alixaxel/chrome-aws-lambda

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Puppeteer and Playwright Cloud Testing▲5

    Run automated browser tests with Puppeteer and Playwright

    2021 · testingbot.com · its alternatives →

16. 16
    I made a Chrome extension that can automate any website▲707

    Automate your work on any website

    2021 · browserflow.app · its alternatives →

17. 17
    DevReports by PlayerZero▲188

    Everything you need to debug, in one shareable link

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    Owl Browser▲145

    I've been working on browser automation infrastructure for a while and kept hitting the same ceiling: Playwright and Puppeteer are great for scripting but fall apart when you need stealth at scale. Cloud-based solutions like Browserbase work but you're sending all your data to a third party and can't control the environment. So we built Owl Browser, a self-hosted Chromium-based engine that runs in a single Docker container. The core technical problem we tried to solve was fingerprint consistency. Most browser automation tools either ignore fingerprinting entirely or apply surface-level…

    Jan 2026 · owlbrowser.net · its alternatives →

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    Puppeteer API▲139

    Convert your website into an API

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    ScreenCraftAPI▲6

    Hey HN, I built a REST API for capturing screenshots and generating PDFs from URLs. Why: I got tired of managing Puppeteer/Playwright in production. Memory leaks, zombie processes, Docker issues. So I wrapped it in an API. Stack: - Node.js + Fastify - Playwright (more stable than Puppeteer in my experience) - Self-hosted on Hetzner Features: - Screenshots: PNG, JPEG, WebP - PDFs: A4, Letter, custom sizes - Full-page capture, custom viewports - Cookie consent auto-accept - Lazy-load handling API example: curl -X POST…

    Dec 2025 · screencraftapi.com · its alternatives →

21. 21AP
    Autogenerate Playwright and Puppeteer test scripts from the browser▲18

    2022 · deploysentinel.com · its alternatives →

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    Chromeless▲334

    Headless Chrome automation on AWS Lambda

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    ScreenshotOne▲493

    The screenshot API you can finally rely on

    2023 · screenshotone.com · its alternatives →

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    Generate high-res images of code samples with Chrome Headless▲93

    📸💻 Turn your source code into beautiful syntax-highlighted images. - mplewis/src2png

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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