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Rust SDK for the antidetect browser

The Rust library ships the browser engine and the fingerprint library and runs without the desktop app. Use it inside a scraper, a CI job or a server-side worker.

Package: crates.io · shardx (opens in a new tab)

Install

bash
cargo add shardx

Quick start

Rust
// cargo add shardx  (illustrative; see the crate readme)
use shardx::{LaunchOptions, ShardX, ShardXOptions};

#[tokio::main]
async fn main() -> anyhow::Result<()> {
    let sdk = ShardX::new(ShardXOptions::default())?;
    let profile = sdk.create_profile(Some("win-rtx4060")).await?;
    let session = sdk.session(profile, LaunchOptions {
        proxy: Some("socks5://user:pass@host:1080".into()),
        ..Default::default()
    }).await?;
    let page = session
        .new_page("https://browserleaks.com/quic")
        .await?;
    println!("{:?}", page.get_title().await?);
    session.close().await
}

What the SDK does for you

  • Downloads the engine and the 220-profile library on first use and caches them by ETag.
  • Probes the proxy for UDP support and turns QUIC on or off accordingly.
  • Resolves timezone, locale and geolocation from the proxy exit country before launch.
  • Randomizes CPU, RAM and platform version once per saved profile so hardware stays coherent.

The Rust crate has the same surface as the Python and Node SDKs: on first use it downloads the engine, the Widevine CDM and the bundled fingerprint library into a per-user cache, then launches isolated profiles with the same spoofing flags the desktop app uses.

With the default control feature, session() launches the engine and attaches a chromiumoxide CDP browser in one call. Disable the feature for a lighter build and use launch_cdp to get a cdp_url for your own client. Supported hosts are macOS arm64, Windows x64 and Linux x64.

Read the Rust readme (opens in a new tab)

Download ShardBrowser

Native apps for macOS (Apple Silicon), Windows, and Linux.

Standalone SDKs

Python, Node and Rust libraries that ship the browser engine and run without the desktop app.

pip install shardx
Learn how to launch (opens in a new tab)