HeadlessChrome

What is HeadlessChrome?

About

Headless Chrome is a tool provided by Google's open source Chromium project. It gives other software the ability to render web pages in full detail. One of the most common use cases is enabling AI agents to browse the internet through libraries like Playwright and Puppeteer. You can see how often HeadlessChrome visits your website by setting up Dark Visitors agent analytics.

Expected Behavior

The behavior of headless agents generally depends who is using them and what exactly they're using them for. Patterns could vary significantly depending whether the operator is human-guided software (e.g. performance testing), or an autonomous AI agent acting like a human.

Type

Headless Agent
A code library used to automate web browsing

Detail

Last Updated 13 hours ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

0%
0% of top websites are blocking HeadlessChrome
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Country of Origin

United States
HeadlessChrome normally visits from the United States

Global Traffic

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The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Headless Agents

Top Visited Website Categories

Business and Industrial
Health
Jobs and Education
Real Estate
People and Society
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Robots.txt

Should I Block HeadlessChrome?

Probably not. Headless agents normally don't follow robots.txt rules anyway.

How Do I Block HeadlessChrome?

⚠️ Manual Robots.txt Edits Are Not Scalable
New agents are created every day. Instead, serve a continuously updating robots.txt that blocks new agents automatically.
Set Up Automatic Robots.txt

You can block HeadlessChrome or limit its access by setting user agent token rules in your website's robots.txt. Set up Dark Visitors agent analytics to check whether it's actually following them.

# robots.txt
# This should block HeadlessChrome

User-agent: HeadlessChrome
Disallow: /

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