Show HN: A Chromium browser you drive with HTTP requests (no Selenium)

Category: devtools

Tags: browser-automation, chromium, rest-api, cef, cloudflare-tunnel

Score: 5.0/10 (Innovation: 5, Technical: 5, Documentation: 6, Utility: 4)

NTXM Browser mini is a proprietary desktop Chromium browser with a built-in local REST API on port 9090, allowing automation via simple HTTP requests instead of Selenium or Playwright. It exposes window/tab management, navigation, and page HTML retrieval, with optional Cloudflare tunneling for remote access. While the HTTP-as-controller concept is a clean simplification for agent-driven automation, the project is closed-source, distributes only binaries, and faces strong competition from established headless browser automation stacks.

Target audience: QA engineers, automation developers, AI agent builders, backend devs

Repository: https://github.com/techxcelerate/browser-mini · NOASSERTION · 3 stars

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