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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.
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.
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About bouncy on Product Hunt
“Tiny Rust headless browser for scraping.”
bouncy was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 6 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #26 on the daily leaderboard. 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.
bouncy was featured in Productivity (651.8k followers), Developer Tools (512.5k followers), Artificial Intelligence (468.6k followers) and GitHub (41.2k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 316k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted bouncy?
bouncy was hunted by Maziar Zamani. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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