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Camoufox at a glance

Checked 21 Oct 2026

Anti-detect browser. Added from the trending feed (owner) on 2026-10-17 with 12,587 GitHub stars. So far only the licence comes from GitHub; the other facts are unknown until someone checks them.

Cite this pageRepoQuarry. “Camoufox.” Checked 21 Oct 2026. https://repoquarry.dev/projects/camoufox

How much of Firecrawl Cloud does it replace?

Use it instead of paying for Firecrawl Cloud?
Personal use
Confirmed: Yes
For a business
Confirmed: Yes

1 of 4 jobs. Draft: which jobs it covers is not checked yet.

No: Crawl a site to Markdown Not covered
Partial: Scrape pages (JS-heavy and bot-protected) Partial replacement
No: Structured data extraction Not covered
No: Web search with page content Not covered

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Facts, with sources

Every answer links to where we found it. We read the documentation; we did not install it.

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QuestionAnswerSourceChecked
Runs on my machine? Confirmed: Yes, Python or Node.js library that runs a local Firefox build Camoufox is a Firefox build for web scraping and AI agents. github.com · camoufox#readme ↗ today
Code licence Partial: MPL-2.0 github.com · camoufox#license ↗ 4d ago
Model weights licence Confirmed: No separate model weights github.com · camoufox#readme ↗ today
Commercial use Confirmed: Yes; MPL-2.0 allows commercial use, changes to MPL files must stay open Mozilla Public License Version 2.0 github.com · LICENSE ↗ today
Paid services needed? Partial: A local package/browser installation is documented without a paid API key. Paid proxy services are optional integrations, not a verified universal requirement. Evidence summary (paraphrase): A local package/browser installation is documented without a paid API key. Paid proxy services are optional integrations, not a verified universal requirement. raw.githubusercontent.com · README.md ↗ 2d ago
Hardware Partial: Linux virtual/Xvfb mode supports software rendering without a GPU. No numerical RAM minimum verified. Evidence summary (paraphrase): Linux virtual/Xvfb mode supports software rendering without a GPU. No numerical RAM minimum verified. raw.githubusercontent.com · README.md ↗ 2d ago
Operating systems Confirmed: Windows, macOS and Linux browser builds (x86_64; ARM64 on macOS and Linux) github.com · latest ↗ today
Setup effort Confirmed: Easy; pip install or npm install pip install -U "camoufox[geoip]" github.com · camoufox#readme ↗ today

No licence changes since we started watching. Licence watch: follow Camoufox and we email you if its licence terms change.

Growth and activity in detail

Is it popular, and is anyone still working on it? From GitHub.

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  • Actively maintained32 people committing, active 12 of the last 12 weeks.

32 people committing in the last 12 months · 32 pull requests merged in 30 days · 59 issues opened, 60 closed in 30 days

Stars over time

Building history

+97 stars since 17 Oct 2026. The 7-day comparison and the trend label start once there is a full week of daily counts.

  • Camoufox
12,68412,577 2026-10-172026-10-21 Tracked daily begins 2026-10-17Camoufox, 2026-10-17: 12,587 stars, trackedCamoufox, 2026-10-18: 12,632 stars, trackedCamoufox, 2026-10-19: 12,645 stars, trackedCamoufox, 2026-10-20: 12,674 stars, trackedCamoufox, 2026-10-21: 12,684 stars, tracked
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Tracked daily since 17 Oct 2026. Dashed history: estimated from public records of when people starred the repo. Lines connect observations only; gaps contain no measured points.

Commits per week, last 52 weeks

active 12 of the last 12 weeks

Up 16% on the 12 weeks before.

Week of 26 Oct 2025: 0 commitsWeek of 2 Nov 2025: 0 commitsWeek of 9 Nov 2025: 0 commitsWeek of 16 Nov 2025: 0 commitsWeek of 23 Nov 2025: 0 commitsWeek of 30 Nov 2025: 0 commitsWeek of 7 Dec 2025: 0 commitsWeek of 14 Dec 2025: 2 commitsWeek of 21 Dec 2025: 87 commitsWeek of 28 Dec 2025: 33 commitsWeek of 4 Jan 2026: 11 commitsWeek of 11 Jan 2026: 1 commitWeek of 18 Jan 2026: 2 commitsWeek of 25 Jan 2026: 1 commitWeek of 1 Feb 2026: 16 commitsWeek of 8 Feb 2026: 1 commitWeek of 15 Feb 2026: 2 commitsWeek of 22 Feb 2026: 4 commitsWeek of 1 Mar 2026: 7 commitsWeek of 8 Mar 2026: 2 commitsWeek of 15 Mar 2026: 1 commitWeek of 22 Mar 2026: 0 commitsWeek of 29 Mar 2026: 1 commitWeek of 5 Apr 2026: 3 commitsWeek of 12 Apr 2026: 7 commitsWeek of 19 Apr 2026: 4 commitsWeek of 26 Apr 2026: 2 commitsWeek of 3 May 2026: 5 commitsWeek of 10 May 2026: 3 commitsWeek of 17 May 2026: 2 commitsWeek of 24 May 2026: 3 commitsWeek of 31 May 2026: 1 commitWeek of 7 Jun 2026: 6 commitsWeek of 14 Jun 2026: 2 commitsWeek of 21 Jun 2026: 5 commitsWeek of 28 Jun 2026: 4 commitsWeek of 5 Jul 2026: 3 commitsWeek of 12 Jul 2026: 35 commitsWeek of 19 Jul 2026: 11 commitsWeek of 26 Jul 2026: 30 commitsWeek of 2 Aug 2026: 5 commitsWeek of 9 Aug 2026: 4 commitsWeek of 16 Aug 2026: 4 commitsWeek of 23 Aug 2026: 8 commitsWeek of 30 Aug 2026: 23 commitsWeek of 6 Sept 2026: 4 commitsWeek of 13 Sept 2026: 1 commitWeek of 20 Sept 2026: 4 commitsWeek of 27 Sept 2026: 25 commitsWeek of 4 Oct 2026: 26 commitsWeek of 11 Oct 2026: 12 commitsWeek of 18 Oct 2026: 6 commits OctDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSeptOct Busiest week: 87 commits. Focus or tap a bar for its week.
Where these numbers come from
  • Stars, forks, releases: GitHub's public API, fetched every night (last fetch today).
  • Star history: counted every night since 17 Oct 2026.
  • Commits and people committing: GitHub's repository statistics, counted weekly. Names are never stored.
  • Pull requests and issues: counted from GitHub for the last 30 days.
  • Stars show popularity, not quality. The facts below are checked separately, by reading the project's own documentation. How we check.

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