# cantino/selectorgadget

Go go CSS / DOM inspection.

Repository: https://github.com/cantino/selectorgadget
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/selectorgadget
Homepage: http://www.selectorgadget.com
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2026-05-14T04:27:53+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 69/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 82, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 6496, "days_push": 111, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1059, forks 189 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:25.563535+00:00)

## What it is
SelectorGadget is an open-source bookmarklet and Chrome extension that generates CSS selectors for page elements through point-and-click selection and rejection. It helps users discover minimal CSS selectors on complicated sites for use in scraping, styling, and testing.

## Use cases
- generate css selectors for web scraping
- find css selector for an element on a page
- inspect javascript-generated dom structures
- build selectors for beautiful soup or nokogiri scraping
- create selectors for selenium tests
- target specific elements in css styling

## When to choose
- you need to quickly derive CSS selectors for scraping or testing without hand-writing them
- you work with dynamic sites where DOM inspection is tedious
- you want a lightweight bookmarklet or browser extension

## When to avoid
- you need XPath selectors rather than CSS selectors
- you need automated headless selector generation in a CI pipeline
- you need a full browser DevTools replacement

## Facets
- artifact type: plugin
- maturity: active
- function: developer-tools, web-scraping, browser-extension
- domain: web-development, developer-tools, crawlers
- platform: browser, browser-extension
- tags: css-selectors, bookmarklet, dom-inspection, scraping-helper, chrome-extension

## Member repositories
- cantino/selectorgadget (main) score 69

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:25.563535+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 2026-08-30T06:57:12.813883+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/cantino/selectorgadget (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:25.563535+00:00, sha 7a89646e5bc7)
  - homepage: http://www.selectorgadget.com (fetched 2026-08-29T12:58:59.517473+00:00, sha 1383f65964f5)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.