obscura
ActiveDescription
Obscura is an AI security and red-teaming toolkit that probes LLM agents and prompts for jailbreaks, data leaks, and unsafe tool use.
Key Features
- Ultra-lightweight at 30MB memory and 70MB binary, far smaller than Headless Chrome
- Built-in anti-detection to counter scraper fingerprinting
- Full Chrome DevTools Protocol compatibility
- Puppeteer and Playwright compatible — existing scripts migrate seamlessly
- Millisecond startup time, near-zero compared to ~2s for Chrome
- 85ms page loads, much faster than traditional Headless Chrome
Use Cases
💡 Provide a low-resource web automation runtime for AI agents
💡 Run large-scale web scraping with reduced server cost
💡 Run browser-based end-to-end tests in CI pipelines
💡 Perform controlled scraping against sites with strict anti-bot measures
Strengths & Limitations
✅ Strengths
- • Actively maintained, recent updates
- • High community interest (26.5k stars)
- • Permissive open-source license (Apache-2.0)
- • Responsive to issues, low backlog
Categories
Quick Start
# Install Obscura
brew install obscura # macOS / Linux
# Control via Puppeteer-style API
import { Browser } from "obscura"
const browser = await Browser.launch()
const page = await browser.newPage()
await page.goto("https://example.com")
const title = await page.title()
console.log(title)
await browser.close()