Could Lightpanda be a strong browser layer for an autonomous video production workflow?

[calesthio]

I think OpenMontage is an interesting fit for Lightpanda as a browser layer.
Repo: https://github.com/calesthio/OpenMontage

OpenMontage is an agentic video production system. Before it generates anything, it often needs browser-heavy work such as:

• researching references and visual language
• checking provider docs and parameter constraints
• scouting stock footage / image sources
• validating public pages and outputs
• occasionally handling upload-oriented workflows like GitHub attachments or media handoff pages

That makes the browser layer important, not just peripheral.

What makes Lightpanda interesting here is the pitch around being designed for AI and automation. A workflow like OpenMontage would benefit from a browser that is:

• fast to spin up repeatedly
• stable under agent control
• good at structured browsing and extraction
• reliable on modern JS-heavy pages
• predictable around file uploads and media-heavy flows

So my question is: does Lightpanda feel mature for this sort of agentic pre-production / ops role yet?

More specifically:

1. How strong is Lightpanda today on modern sites that are dynamic, media-heavy, or auth-gated?
2. How reliable is file upload handling from an automation standpoint?
3. Is the project aiming more at test/automation workloads, or do you see agentic research/ops layers like this as a first-class use case?
4. Are there known gaps that would make a workflow like OpenMontage a poor fit today?

If helpful, I can turn this into a concrete evaluation checklist from the perspective of a browser-assisted media pipeline.

[krichprollsch]

Hello @calesthio,

Thanks for your issue.
Lightpanda is still under development, you can't expect having everything working.
So if you require a full compliant browser, I suggest you to use Chrome directly.

That said your use case seems very interesting and we would be more than pleased to help you if you want to make a try w/ lightpanda and give feedbacks. We can debug failing websites/use cases, but also improve the browser depending your needs.

Some important notes:

• we don't handle file upload for now, but it's something we could work on
• if you have anti-bot issues, Lightpanda will not work, the browser is easy to fingerprint and will be blocked easily

We also provide native MCP support via stdio, that could be useful.

[kaelkaram1231-bit]

Thanks for the detailed response and clarification.

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