Getting it into your agent
One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.
npx agentmods add skills/xberg-io/crawlberg/headless-fallbacknpx skills add xberg-io/crawlberg --skill headless-fallbackgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/xberg-io/crawlbergWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/xberg-io/crawlberg/headless-fallback)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/xberg-io/crawlberg/headless-fallback"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/xberg-io/crawlberg/headless-fallback.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>What it costs to keep this loaded
Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5 | $0.00057 | $0.01128 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00028 | $0.00564 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00011 | $0.00226 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00006 | $0.00113 |
Grade A, and why
headless-fallback scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 5d ago.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Nothing flagged
None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 143 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Headless fallback
Some pages are unscrapable without a real browser — SPA shells, infinite scroll, Cloudflare interstitials, JS-rendered article bodies. Crawlberg ships with an optional headless-Chrome backend driven by chromiumoxide.
Modes
--browser-mode auto # default — try static first, fall back to browser on JS/WAF
--browser-mode always # skip static, go straight to browser
--browser-mode never # static only, fail closed
auto (default)
The engine fetches statically, then inspects the response. It launches headless Chrome and re-fetches when it sees:
- WAF responses from one of 8 detected vendor fingerprints (Cloudflare, Akamai, AWS WAF, Imperva, DataDome, PerimeterX, F5, plus a generic catch-all).
- SPA shells:
<noscript>warnings, near-empty<body>with heavy JS. - Heuristic JS-render-required signals.
This is the right default. The browser only spins up when needed.
always
Skip the static probe entirely. Use when:
- The user already told you the page needs JS.
- You are scraping a site you know is React/Vue/Svelte SPA.
- You need
<script>-emitted state that never lands in static HTML.
crawlberg scrape https://spa.example.com --browser-mode always --format markdown
never
Static only — the browser path is disabled. Use when:
- You are in a hot loop where a stray Chrome launch would blow the budget.
- You are running in a sandbox without a Chrome binary.
- The user explicitly wants only static fetches.
In never mode, JS-only pages return empty/stub content. Inspect
markdown.content and markdown.warnings before treating the result as
final.
Symptoms that point to headless
In --browser-mode never or when you suspect the auto detector missed a
signal:
markdown.contentis short, nav-only, or just a loading message.status_codeis 200 butmetadata.headingsis empty on a page that clearly has headings.markdown.warningsmentions JS-render-required or WAF detection.- 403/406/503 with WAF response headers (
server: cloudflare,cf-mitigated,x-amz-cf-id,set-cookie: __cf_bm=…).
What this file has done since we first saw it
Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.
- 5d ago First seen · 143 lines · 57 tokens per session scan A af665e644ead
headless-fallback is a skill published in the GitHub repository xberg-io/crawlberg (168 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 57 tokens to every session and 1,128 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.
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