# antonmedv/finder

CSS Selector Generator 🗺

Repository: https://github.com/antonmedv/finder
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/antonmedv-finder
Language: HTML
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2025-11-20T21:28:49+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 58/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 53, release rhythm 40, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3116, "days_push": 286, "days_rel": 628, "gap_med": 0.0, "n_releases_24m": 3}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1485, forks 101 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:51.780194+00:00)

## What it is
finder is a tiny (1.5kb) JavaScript library that generates the shortest, unique, and robust CSS selectors for DOM elements. It is commonly used to identify clicked elements for automation, recording, and testing tools.

## Use cases
- generate a css selector for a clicked element
- record user interactions as css selectors
- build a browser extension that identifies dom elements
- create stable selectors for e2e testing tools
- find a unique selector for web scraping automation

## When to choose
- you need minimal, unique css selectors for dom elements in the browser
- bundle size matters and you want a dependency-free tiny library
- you need configurable selector generation (root, timeout, class/attr filters)

## When to avoid
- you need xpath selectors instead of css selectors
- you are working outside a DOM environment (node without jsdom)
- you need a full recording/replay automation framework rather than just selector generation

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: active
- function: developer-tools
- domain: web-development, frontend, developer-tools
- platform: browser
- tags: css-selector-generator, dom, element-identification, automation, web-development, nodejs, web-server

## Member repositories
- antonmedv/finder (main) score 58

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:51.780194+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:33:55.340464+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/antonmedv/finder (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:51.780194+00:00, sha f2380c6ba493)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.