# wkeeling/selenium-wire

Extends Selenium's Python bindings to give you the ability to inspect requests made by the browser.

Repository: https://github.com/wkeeling/selenium-wire
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/selenium-wire
Language: Python
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: testing-tools, testing, testing-library, testing-framework, python, web-testing
Archived: true
Last push: 2024-01-03T15:34:32+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2997, "days_push": 973, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1965, forks 278 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:59.885210+00:00)

## What it is
Selenium Wire extends Selenium's Python bindings to expose the HTTP/HTTPS requests and responses made by the browser, with APIs to inspect and modify them on the fly. It supports header/body modification, websocket message capture, HAR export, and proxy support, but is no longer maintained.

## Use cases
- inspect network requests made by a browser during selenium tests
- capture ajax requests from a web page with python
- modify request headers on the fly in selenium
- export browser traffic as HAR files
- capture websocket messages during browser automation
- assert on api calls triggered by frontend interactions

## When to choose
- you need to inspect or modify browser network traffic within existing Selenium Python tests
- you want HAR capture or websocket message capture alongside browser automation

## When to avoid
- starting a new project - the project is explicitly unmaintained
- you only need network capture without browser automation (use a proxy or devtools-based tool instead)
- you need support for the latest Selenium or Python versions

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: abandoned
- function: testing, http-client, web-scraping
- domain: testing, web-development, developer-tools
- platform: python, cross-platform
- tags: selenium, browser-automation, network-capture, har, request-inspection, proxy

## Member repositories
- wkeeling/selenium-wire (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:59.885210+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 2026-08-30T03:05:29.646775+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/wkeeling/selenium-wire (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:59.885210+00:00, sha f3489911c11f)
  - registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/selenium-wire/json (fetched 2026-08-29T10:45:07.364386+00:00, sha edf1634a4936)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.