Rod
Rod is an open-source, high-level Go driver built directly on the Chrome DevTools Protocol for web automation and scraping. It is intended to automate browser tasks such as screenshots, client-side-rendered-page scraping, form filling, end-to-end testing, and request interception.
At a Glance
- Go developers
- Software engineering and QA teams
- Web-scraping and data-collection developers
- Teams building browser automation infrastructure
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Rod
Go Library for Browser Automation
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Latest News
Rod repository recorded an update sponsors maintenance commit by ysmood.
Rod MCP received a merge adding continued browser-page control improvements; the project exposes Rod browser automation as an MCP server for LLM applications.
Rod MCP's release-binary workflow and installation documentation were updated as the project matured into a distributable MCP server.
Rod v0.116.2 released with Page.ResetNavigationHistory support and an updated Ubuntu LTS Docker runner image.
Products & Services
Open-source Go library and high-level Chrome DevTools Protocol driver for browser automation and web scraping, with access to high-level helpers and low-level CDP packages.
Model Context Protocol server built using Rod that lets LLM applications interact with web pages through tools including navigation, clicking, screenshots, PDF saving, page evaluation, and other browser actions.
A related public go-rod project described by the organization as anti-bot-detection with Rod; it extends the Rod ecosystem for browser automation scenarios where stealth characteristics matter.
Market Position
Rod positions itself as a high-level Go driver directly based on Chrome DevTools Protocol, combining convenient automation helpers with direct low-level protocol access. Its repository explicitly provides a comparison with chromedp; unlike general-purpose cross-language frameworks such as Playwright, Rod is Go-native and CDP-focused.
Leadership
Founders
Yad Smood
Creator and principal maintainer associated with the GitHub handle ysmood; GitHub identifies him as Yad Smood, based in Tokyo, and lists the go-rod organization among his organizations. The Rod repository's MIT license credits copyright to Yad Smood in 2019, and the repository history shows him as its principal release publisher.
Executive Team
Yad Smood
Creator and principal maintainer
GitHub identifies Yad Smood (ysmood), based in Tokyo, as the owner/maintainer associated with the go-rod organization and shows him publishing Rod releases and maintaining its documentation.
Founding Story
Rod began as Yad Smood's open-source implementation of a high-level browser driver directly based on Chrome DevTools Protocol. The initial vision was to provide both convenient high-level browser automation and low-level protocol access for developers building automation and scraping systems.
Business Model
Revenue Model
Rod is distributed as MIT-licensed open-source software. The official site says it is sponsored by organizations and individuals and invites sponsors to contact yad@ysmood.org; no subscription, usage, or license-fee model is published.
Pricing Tiers
Commercial use, modification, distribution, and private use are permitted under the repository's MIT license, subject to its license conditions.
Target Markets
- Go developers
- Software engineering and QA teams
- Web-scraping and data-collection developers
- Teams building browser automation infrastructure
- Developers building LLM and MCP browser tools
- Web automation
- Web scraping, including client-side-rendered sites
- Browser-based end-to-end testing
- Automated screenshots and PDF generation
- Form and UI interaction automation
- Network inspection and request/response interception