Camoufox
Hacker ApprovedRanked 2 of 3 headless browsers by recommenders
A free, Firefox-based browser that people use to get past bot detection and Cloudflare for scraping and automation, often on a VPS.
A free, Firefox-based browser that people use to get past bot detection and Cloudflare for scraping and automation, often on a VPS.
11 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 10
- criticize it
- 1
- approval share
- 91%
Recommended in 5 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it carries the badge
- 10 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 10 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 5 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Gets past bot detection and Cloudflare
“it tries to hide the fact that it is an AI running a bot and seems to be fairly successful”
Comment from 22 Oct 2026 in “Claude Duet” “The Camoufox scraper cuts through Cloudflare, Bloomberg and paywalls with 0% detection.”
Comment from 31 Jan 2026 in “I Build a Open Source Deep Research Engine Wich Beats Google and Open AI” “usually a combination of something like camoufox and a residential ip address”
Comment from 18 Oct 2026 in “DeepSeek search and fetch – $0.75 per 1000 successful requests” - Comment from 2 Oct 2026 in “Meta's Muse is fantastic for web scraping”
Often called a great option
“Camoufox is great for running browser instances on a VPS”
Comment from 9 Aug 2026 in “My server is a phone now” “Camoufox is a great option to test out”
Comment from 8 Jun 2026 in “Launch HN: Intuned (YC S22) – Build and run reliable browser automations as code”
Other headless browsers people recommend
The two most recommended other headless browsers, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lightpanda headless browser | 16 | 8 | 67% | 6 | — | Approved |
| CamoufoxThis page | 10 | 1 | 91% | 5 | — | Approved |
| Kitesurf | 6 | 0 | 100% | 1 | — | — |
What people said
All 11 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“it tries to hide the fact that it is an AI running a bot and seems to be fairly successful”
“usually a combination of something like camoufox and a residential ip address”
“It uses the latest commits so it may be even better than what is on release.”
“bypasses most blocks with no problems”
“Camoufox is great for running browser instances on a VPS”
“Really happy for you that you managed to run ten of those. Not a nuisance at all.”
“the results are pretty good”
“plug a vision llm to that bad boy and you can defeat any google / cloudflare captcha”
“Camoufox is a great option to test out”
“CamuFox will fix it easy peasy.”
“The Camoufox scraper cuts through Cloudflare, Bloomberg and paywalls with 0% detection.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.