go-rod/rod
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A Chrome DevTools Protocol driver for web automation and scraping.
11 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 2 stories, 9 comments · first 2020-07-03 · latest 2026-03-02
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Is this just devtools protocol wrapped by an MCP? I've been doing this with go-rod for two years... https://github.com/go-rod/rod
comment by dakolli · 2026-03-02 · in WebMCP is available for early preview -
nice, i love playright I use it but also https://github.com/go-rod/rod in golang world
comment by fcpguru · 2025-12-24 · in Stealthy Playwright Mode: Bypass CAPTCHAs and Bot-Detection [video] -
…it desires..Or whatever (kinda scarily). How is this different? --Shoutout to Go-Rod https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/go-rod/rod@v0.116.2#Page
comment by TechDebtDevin · 2025-07-10 · in MCP-B: A Protocol for AI Browser Automation -
This is really awesome, I do this myself with https://github.com/go-rod/rod I have hacky cli tools I've built with it that manage lots of different browser profiles for scrapers. I need some sort of API though so I'm not sure Donut will do…
comment by TechDebtDevin · 2025-05-30 · in Show HN: Donut Browser, a Browser Orchestrator -
nice, i've been using https://github.com/go-rod/rod or python playwright for this and doing the logic to clean the html into text. But this is nice 1 step solution.
comment by andrewfromx · 2025-04-01 · in Show HN: Puremd-mcp – MCP server for reliably accessing web content -
https://github.com/go-rod/rod https://go-rod.github.io/ https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-python https://playwright.dev/python/
comment by andrewfromx · 2025-03-12 · in Ask HN: Why are there no open-source Remote Browser Isolation solutions? -
…and assuming that non-docker users will already have a supported browser on their machine. 0: https://github.com/go-rod/rod
comment by nvrspyx · 2022-10-27 · in VHS: CLI home video recorder -
…overhead of running chromium browser even if its headless. [1] https://github.com/gocolly/colly [2] https://github.com/go-rod/rod
comment by Abishek_Muthian · 2021-08-12 · in Mastering Web Scraping in Python: Crawling from Scratch -
…to it, I would suggest using Python, Go with Chromedp and also rod[1] next time for same tests. [1] https://github.com/go-rod/rod
comment by Abishek_Muthian · 2020-12-03 · in Benchmark: Puppeteer vs. Selenium vs. Playwright vs. WebDriverIO