jeanphix/Ghost.py
Webkit based scriptable web browser for python. observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
32/100
- Activity 0
- Release rhythm 35
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_releases no_license
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: 5399
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 921
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
2756 stars · 369 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
Ghost.py is a scriptable WebKit-based web client library for Python, built on PySide2/Qt5, allowing programmatic page loading and content inspection. It is essentially a lightweight headless browser for automating and testing web pages.
Use cases
- scrape javascript-rendered web pages in python
- headless browser automation with webkit
- test web pages programmatically
- fetch page content and http status from python
- automate interactions with dynamic websites
When to choose
- you need a lightweight webkit-based scriptable browser in python
- you want to render javascript-heavy pages without selenium
- you prefer a simple session-based API for opening pages
When to avoid
- you need an actively maintained project with modern browser support
- you need full browser automation like selenium or playwright
- you require a permissive license for redistribution (no license file in repo)
Facets
library · maturity maintenance
web-scraping http-client testing web-development crawlers python headless-browser webkit qt pyside2 browser-automation automation linux docker
2 sources
- readme: https://github.com/jeanphix/Ghost.py · fetched 2026-08-28 · 6239050ba6ba
- registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/ghost.py/json · fetched 2026-08-29 · ccb9c2168bd2
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| jeanphix/Ghost.py | main | 32 |
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