# jeanphix/Ghost.py

Webkit based scriptable web browser for python.

Repository: https://github.com/jeanphix/Ghost.py
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/ghostpy
Homepage: http://ghost-py.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
Language: Python
License Family: other
Last push: 2024-02-24T12:17:27+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5399, "days_push": 921, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2756, forks 369 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:18.215462+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: web-scraping, http-client, testing
- domain: web-development, crawlers
- platform: python
- tags: headless-browser, webkit, qt, pyside2, browser-automation, automation, linux, docker

## Member repositories
- jeanphix/Ghost.py (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:18.215462+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 2026-08-30T08:18:51.274825+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/jeanphix/Ghost.py (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:18.215462+00:00, sha 6239050ba6ba)
  - registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/ghost.py/json (fetched 2026-08-29T09:57:15.038918+00:00, sha ccb9c2168bd2)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.