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published_at: "2026-10-26T16:15:00.000Z"
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summary: "Webframe is a Go-based project by Jeff Lindsay that runs web pages in a headless browser view and outputs console logs and errors. It uses the glaze library to access system browsers like WKWebView, WebKitGTK, and WebView2. The tool was evaluated as both a web scraping utility and a sandboxing tool, with comparisons drawn to the shot-scraper JavaScript project."
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# webframe: evaluated as a scraper and a sandbox

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**Published:** 2026-10-26T16:15:00.000Z
**Category:** Open Source
**Topics:** coding, open\-source

## Summary

Webframe is a Go\-based project by Jeff Lindsay that runs web pages in a headless browser view and outputs console logs and errors\. It uses the glaze library to access system browsers like WKWebView, WebKitGTK, and WebView2\. The tool was evaluated as both a web scraping utility and a sandboxing tool, with comparisons drawn to the shot\-scraper JavaScript project\.

## Sources

- [Story source](<https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/26/webframe-evaluation/>)