Latenode’s Headless Browser

What is a Headless Browser?

Tell the Headless Browser where to go, what to find, where to click, and which text to type or copy — just like a real user.

Imagine a regular internet browser like Chrome or Firefox. Now, remove all the visible interface parts - buttons, address bar, bookmarks. What's left? The "brains" that can navigate the internet, open websites, and interact with them. This is what we call a "headless" browser. It can automate various tasks on websites without displaying visual content and can do this at breakneck speed. A script, not a human, controls the process. A crucial part of the Headless Browser is its ability to run JavaScript custom scripts. It allows you to simulate user actions like clicking buttons, filling out forms, and navigating through a site’s menu. This is crucial for tasks like automated testing, web scraping, and automating repetitive tasks on web portals.

Key Benefits

A Headless Browser can save your time, resources, and headaches.

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Render Dynamic Content

Handle JavaScript-driven SPAs (React, Vue, Angular) as if you were using a full-featured browser, ensuring accurate data capture every time. Headless Browser “sees” the site as a real user sees it, and allows you to automatically interact with interface elements that would otherwise be “hidden” to a regular script.

A Full-Fledged Puppeteer Library

Break free from no-code limitations. In Latenode’s advanced environment, you gain full access to Puppeteer: write and customize your own scripts for any automation task—including complex form operations, multi-step workflows, and data extraction. Complete control over your code, along with tight integration with a headless browser, provides maximum flexibility and efficiency for every challenge.

Built-In AI Integration

Headless Browser allows you to “pull” content from websites (texts, images, tables) ready for analysis. After parsing or interaction, you can immediately pass the results to an AI node for classification, description generation, sentiment analysis, etc. Headless Browser provides data as if a real user “saw” it, which increases the accuracy of AI analysis.

Scalable Infrastructure

For web tests, parsing large data arrays or mass scenarios, you often need not one browser, but tens/hundreds of parallel sessions. Latenode automates the management of headless browsers in the cloud. You can quickly scale the number of instances (serverless architecture) without worrying about manual deployment and configuration.

Log in & Real-Time Insights

Monitor every click, data extraction, and error in real time. Troubleshoot your automation flows quickly and effectively. An automated browser executes a sequence of actions as a human would, but without a visual shell. Latenode provides a convenient interface for viewing logs and results of each headless browser launch.

Secure & Isolated

Each browser runs as a separate process (or container), executing scripts in its own “sandbox”. When working with multiple automation flows, you need to avoid conflicts and data leaks (cookies, sessions). Isolation of headless browsers ensures security and stable operation, especially when executing different scripts in parallel.