lexmount/moli
Best headless browser for AI agents. Lite, Fast, High-Compatibility. Built in Rust
Build with Backblaze B2
SDKs, agent skills, IDE extensions, and reference pipelines from Backblaze Labs. All open source.
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Where it stands
Rank, growth pace and release cadence relative to everything GStars tracks.
Ranks #121 of 2,503 repositories GStars tracks this week (top 5%).
This week's +5,261 stars is ahead of its 30-day pace of about +3,950 per week.
5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 3 days ago, with 17 contributors on GitHub.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Provides a production-ready headless browser optimized for AI agents with on-demand layout and rendering built in Rust.
- Delivers fast, resource-efficient browser automation by generating visual layout and paint only when explicitly required.
- Use for AI agents that need to fetch, extract, and interact with web pages efficiently without continuous rendering overhead.
- Use for automated web crawling and scraping tasks requiring real JavaScript execution and DOM inspection with minimal resource use.
- Use for integrating browser automation protocols like CDP and WebDriver in cross-platform environments supporting Linux, macOS, and Windows.
Should you depend on it?
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License
Apache 2.0
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution; includes an explicit patent grant from contributors.
Community files
- README: present
Watch-outs
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From the README
Moli is a production-ready headless browser for AI agents. Its on-demand layout and rendering design combines a complete browser runtime with a lightweight resource footprint.
Moli helps your AI agent fetch and extract web pages, search the web, and automate browser tasks.
Use it through the CLI, CDP, WebDriver Classic, or WebDriver BiDi.
Moli supports Linux, macOS, and Windows.
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
+3,136 stars over 6 days across 7 snapshot days; best day +776 on Oct 11.
Forks
498+124
Open issues
350+67
Compared with peers in AI Agents
Fastest-growing repositories GStars tracks in this cohort for the week of Oct 11, by 7-day star growth
| Repository | Stars | +7d | Health | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| morluto/rea | 270.3K | +239.5K | 60 | 1 day ago |
| stablyai/orca | 93.5K | +5.4K | 60 | 3 days ago |
| lexmount/moli | 18.7K | +5.3K | 75 | 3 days ago |
| vxcontrol/pentagi | 30.5K | +5.1K | 75 | 10 days ago |
| DietrichGebert/ponytail | 164.4K | +5.0K | 75 | 2 days ago |
| hugohe3/ppt-master | 61.7K | +3.8K | 75 | 5 days ago |
| Category median | 93.5K | +5.1K | 75 | — |
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