casperjs/casperjs
CasperJS is no longer actively maintained. Navigation scripting and testing utility for PhantomJS and SlimerJS observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
10/100
- Activity 0
- Release rhythm 8
- Longevity 100
Flags: archived
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 5476
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 2343
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
7159 stars · 961 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
CasperJS is a navigation scripting and testing utility for the PhantomJS and SlimerJS headless browsers, providing high-level APIs for defining navigation scenarios, filling forms, capturing screenshots, and writing functional test suites. It is no longer actively maintained.
Use cases
- scrape pages with a headless browser
- write functional test suites for web pages
- fill and submit forms automatically
- capture screenshots of pages or page areas
- assert on remote DOM elements
- export test results as JUnit XML
When to choose
- you must maintain a legacy test suite already written for PhantomJS or SlimerJS
- you need to keep old production tests running on PhantomJS 1.9 or 2.x
When to avoid
- starting a new browser automation or testing project
- you need modern browser support (Chromium/Firefox via Playwright, Puppeteer, or Selenium)
- you want an actively maintained tool with security fixes
Facets
library · maturity abandoned
testing e2e-testing web-scraping http-client testing developer-tools web-development cross-platform cli phantomjs slimerjs headless-browser navigation-scripting scraping unmaintained automation nodejs
2 sources
- readme: https://github.com/casperjs/casperjs · fetched 2026-08-28 · 85fb0af14181
- registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/casperjs · fetched 2026-08-29 · 920b55a58f24
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| casperjs/casperjs | main | 10 |
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