Obscura Production Deployment — Docker, Systemd, Workers, and Tuning
Docker distroless image, Systemd service unit, multi-process worker scaling, V8 heap tuning, WebSocket reverse proxy — Obscura production deployment.
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18ip Engineering Blog
Production practices for proxy reliability, anti-blocking, compliance, and cost optimization.
Obscura Architecture — 8 Crates, Single V8 Isolate, and CDP Dispatch
8 crates with clear responsibilities, single V8 Isolate serialization, CDP dispatch with lifecycle events, and DOM tree with cycle guards.
Obscura MCP Server — Give Your AI Agent a Browser
30+ MCP tools from navigation to form filling to data extraction. Configure Claude Desktop and your AI agent can drive a browser for any web task.
Obscura Stealth — Fingerprint Spoofing, TLS Fingerprint, and Anti-Detection
Browser profile pool, BoringSSL TLS fingerprints, 3500+ domain tracker blocklist. Obscura Stealth is a full-stack anti-detection system from TLS to JS APIs.
Obscura CDP Compatibility — Zero-Change Migration for Puppeteer and Playwright
Core CDP domains, direct Puppeteer/Playwright connections, full lifecycle mapping — switching from Headless Chrome to Obscura means changing one line of connection code.
Obscura CLI Guide — Seven Output Formats and Concurrent Scraping
Seven output formats, concurrent workers, JS injection, SPA wait strategies — one Obscura CLI command equals a full headless browser.
What is Obscura — An Open-Source Headless Browser Engine
30 MB memory, 85 ms page load, built-in anti-detection — Obscura is the Rust alternative to Headless Chrome for AI agents and scrapers.
AI Agent Anti-Blocking in Practice: Proxy Configuration and Engine-Level Evasion
When AI agents move from lab to production, anti-blocking isn't optional — it's survival. This article covers proxy selection, GeoIP alignment, IP rotation strategies, fingerprint consistency, error troubleshooting, and a production deployment checklist.
2026 AI Browser Agent Comparison: Token Efficiency, Anti-Detection, and Architecture Selection
As of mid-2026, AI browser agents have diverged into four distinct architectural paradigms. This article delivers a comprehensive comparison across six dimensions, with a decision tree for choosing the right tool.
Lightpanda Snapshot Crashes, Nanobrowser Hallucinates Sent Emails, Steel Fingerprint Retries All Fail — 7 Bugs That Broke My Production Pipeline
Every tool in this space looks great in a demo. Running them in production is where you find the gap between marketing claims and engineering maturity. Seven bugs I actually hit, with root causes and workarounds for each.