mherrmann/helium Alternatives

Choose it for Node/TypeScript projects wanting a maintained CDP-based browser automation API instead of Python+Selenium.

JavaScript API for Chrome and Firefox

Choose it for cross-language, cross-browser automation with auto-waiting and isolated contexts; it does not use Selenium's WebDriver protocol.

Playwright is a framework for Web Testing and Automation. It allows testing Chromium, Firefox and WebKit with a single API.

Choose it for Python scraping pipelines that need adaptive fetching and crawling strategies rather than Helium's label-based scripts.

🕷️ An adaptive Web Scraping framework that handles everything from a single request to a full-scale crawl!

Choose it in Node/TS for crawling at scale with built-in request queues and browser pools rather than one-off Helium sessions.

Crawlee—A web scraping and browser automation library for Node.js to build reliable crawlers. In JavaScript and TypeScript. Extract data for AI, LLMs, RAG, or GPTs. Download HTML, PDF, JPG, PNG, and other files from websites. Works with Puppeteer, Playwright, Cheerio, JSDOM, and raw HTTP. Both headful and headless mode. With proxy rotation.

Choose it when you need a broader Python Selenium test/automation library with retries, CDP mode, and anti-bot features instead of Helium's minimal API.

📊 APIs for web automation, testing, and bypassing bot-detection.

Choose it in Go for CDP-driven automation without needing a Selenium server or WebDriver setup.

A Chrome DevTools Protocol driver for web automation and scraping.

Choose it for Python anti-detect scraping workflows that benefit from built-in proxy, storage, and crawler helpers.

The All in One Framework to Build Undefeatable Scrapers

Choose it for PHP/Symfony browser automation and crawling instead of bringing Python+Helium into a PHP project.

A browser testing and web crawling library for PHP and Symfony

Choose it in Rust for high-level headless Chrome control over CDP, avoiding Python and Selenium.

A high-level API to control headless Chrome or Chromium over the DevTools Protocol. It is the Rust equivalent of Puppeteer, a Node library maintained by the Chrome DevTools team.

Choose it for Ruby applications that want a headless Chrome/CDP API rather than a Python Selenium wrapper.

Headless Chrome Ruby API

Choose it when bot-detection evasion and a Playwright-compatible stealth API matter more than Helium's Selenium label-based approach.

Stealth Chromium that passes every bot detection test. Drop-in Playwright replacement with source-level fingerprint patches. 30/30 tests passed.

Choose it in Go for a lightweight, idiomatic CDP driver instead of using Selenium bindings.

A faster, simpler way to drive browsers supporting the Chrome DevTools Protocol.

Choose it in Python when you want CDP-based automation without a WebDriver binary and need realistic browser interactions.

Pydoll is a library for automating chromium-based browsers without a WebDriver, offering realistic interactions.

Choose it for a Playwright-compatible API running on a Rust CDP engine without a driver subprocess, available for Python and Node.

Playwright's API on a Rust CDP engine — Chromium browser automation for Python & Node, no driver subprocess. (Alpha)

Choose it when your main problem is scraping blocked by bot detection and you want a stealth Chromium engine that plugs into existing automation code.

Stealth Chromium engine that stops scrapers and browser agents from getting blocked, with one line of code change.

Choose it for Python Selenium page-object and user-oriented UI tests where composable selectors and test style fit better than Helium.

User-oriented Web UI browser tests in Python

Choose it for async Python automation with anti-detect features, built on nodriver instead of Selenium.

A blazing fast, async-first, undetectable webscraping/web automation framework based on ultrafunkamsterdam/nodriver. Now with Docker support!

Choose it for Python Selenium-based web testing with a simple driver-agnostic API instead of Helium's label-centric DSL.

splinter - python test framework for web applications

Narrower Selenium+Requests wrapper for mixed HTTP/browser sessions; it lacks Helium's broad label-based automation model.

Integration layer between Requests and Selenium for automation of web actions.

Older low-level Go WebDriver client for users who need raw Selenium in Go without high-level helpers.

Selenium/Webdriver client for Go

Rust Selenium WebDriver client lower in abstraction than Helium; choose it only if you want raw WebDriver control in Rust.

Selenium WebDriver client for Rust, for automated testing of websites

Older stealthy no-WebDriver automation framework that is less maintained and has a narrower following than current CDP options.

a stealthy browser automation framework