skyvern-ai/rustwright

Rustwright is a browser automation library for Python and Node.js that lets a developer control a Chromium browser, such as clicking buttons, filling forms, and reading page content, using the same API style as the popular Playwright library. The difference is what happens under the hood: instead of piping commands through a separate Node.js driver process, Rustwright talks to Chromium directly through a native Rust engine speaking the Chrome DevTools Protocol. The project reports this makes it about 2.5 times faster and uses 70 percent less memory than standard Playwright. Because it aims to be a drop-in replacement, switching an existing Playwright project often means changing a single import line rather than rewriting the automation code. Python support is the most complete, while the Node.js binding is still experimental and only bridges part of the full API. Since there is no separate driver process loading in the background, the library also avoids leaving behind the detectable signatures that some websites use to spot Playwright-driven traffic. Beyond direct code integration, the project includes an MCP server called rustwright-mcp, which lets AI agents such as Claude Code or Claude Desktop control a browser through simple tool calls, seeing the page as a compact list of clickable elements rather than raw HTML or a screenshot. There is also a command line tool for driving a single browser session straight from the terminal, useful for quick scripts or manual testing without writing any application code. The project is explicitly labeled alpha and currently supports Chromium only, not Firefox or Safari. It is built by the team behind Skyvern, which also offers a separate paid hosted browser service with persistent cloud sessions, proxies, and live viewing, and that paid product is what funds ongoing development of this open-source library. The project is released under the MIT license.