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webframe: evaluated as a scraper and a sandbox.

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webframe, a project by Jeff Lindsay, runs a web page like a program by loading a URL or file in a hidden headless web view and outputting console.log.

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“Research: webframe: evaluated as a scraper and a sandbox webframe is a neat little project from Jeff Lindsay which lets you "run a web page like a program" - you point it at a URL or file and it executes it in a hidden headless web view and outputs…”
Simon Willison's Weblog, 26 Oct 2026, 16:15.

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