Lightpanda Browser

Official Docker image for Lightpanda browser.

Lightpanda is the open-source browser made for headless usage:

• Javascript execution
• Support of Web APIs
• Compatible with CDP clients like Playwright, Puppeteer or Chromedp.

Fast web automation for AI agents, LLM training, scraping and testing:

• Ultra-low memory footprint (9x less than Chrome)
• Exceptionally fast execution (11x faster than Chrome)
• Instant startup

Usage

Using docker run.

$ docker run -d --name lightpanda -p 127.0.0.1:9222:9222 lightpanda/browser:nightly

Using docker compose.

services:
    lightpanda:
        image: lightpanda/browser:nightly
        restart: unless-stopped
        ports:
            - '127.0.0.1:9222:9222'

Fetch command

$ docker run -rm lightpanda/browser:nightly lightpanda fetch --dump html https://lightpanda.io

CDP server

$ docker run -d --name lightpanda -p 127.0.0.1:9222:9222 lightpanda/browser:nightly lightpanda serve --host 0.0.0.0 --port 9222 --log_level debug

Program version

$ docker run -d --name lightpanda -p 127.0.0.1:9222:9222 lightpanda/browser:nightly lightpanda version

Environment variables

The image sets LIGHTPANDA_DISABLE_CORE_DUMP=1 by default to disable core dumps.

To re-enable core dumps, unset the variable at run time by passing -e with the variable name only (and no value set in your shell):

$ docker run -d --name lightpanda -p 127.0.0.1:9222:9222 -e LIGHTPANDA_DISABLE_CORE_DUMP lightpanda/browser:nightly