Simon Willison reviews webframe: run web pages like programs
Understand the story
On October 27, 2026, Simon Willison published a review of the webframe tool. webframe is a tool developed by Jeff Lindsay in Go on top of the system browser, whose core feature is "running web pages like programs": it can execute pages in a hidden headless view and output the pages' console.log() to standard output. Willison tested webframe from two angles—a scraping tool and a sandbox environment—to evaluate its actual performance. This is the latest development in coverage of the story; there are no reports yet of further test results or an official response.
AI overview of reporting · Updated 2 h前
Reporting timeline
Explore different aspects of the story through its reporting.
- Simon Willisonwebframe: evaluated as a scraper and a sandbox
webframe is a tool by Jeff Lindsay, built in Go on top of the system browser, that lets you "run web pages like programs," executing pages in a hidden headless view and piping console.log() output to stdout.
Story heat trend
Not enough continuous observations to show a trend yet.