bouncy is a web scraper. Tiny, fast, ships as a single binary — no Node, no Chrome, no Python to install. Point it at a URL and get back the HTML, the visible text, or every link on the page. If the page only renders properly with JavaScript, bouncy will run the JavaScript too. Use it from the command line like curl, or drop it in as a Playwright backend.

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Why I built bouncy Every time I needed to scrape a JS-rendered page, the choice was: spin up Playwright (200+ MB per page, ~1s cold start, Node + Chromium) or fall back to curl + regex (fast, breaks on anything dynamic). For most jobs (fetch a page, extract a title, run one tiny snippet of JS) both felt wrong. So I built bouncy. A tiny Rust headless browser: 10-21 MB per page, ~30 ms cold start with V8, ships as a single binary. No Chromium, no Node runtime. Has its own DOM, embedded V8, HTTP client, and HTML extractor, all separately usable as crates if you only need one part. It also speaks the Chrome DevTools Protocol, so Playwright / puppeteer-core can drive it as a drop-in for the cases where you don't need real layout or paint. Plus an MCP server so Claude / Cursor / any MCP client can scrape with it natively. If you've ever wished there was a middle ground between Playwright and curl, this is it.

ElevenAgents by ElevenLabs — Scale conversations without scaling your team

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bouncy

Tiny Rust headless browser for scraping.

Tiny Rust headless browser for scraping.