scrapinghub/splash
Lightweight, scriptable browser as a service with an HTTP API observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
32/100
- Activity 0
- Release rhythm 35
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_releases
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: 4853
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 761
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
4187 stars · 510 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
Splash is a lightweight, scriptable headless browser exposed as a service with an HTTP API, implemented in Python 3 using Twisted and Qt5. It renders JavaScript-heavy web pages and is commonly paired with Scrapy via the scrapy-splash integration.
Use cases
- render javascript on pages before scraping
- get html of a page that requires js execution
- take screenshots of web pages via an http api
- run custom lua scripts in a headless browser
- integrate js rendering into scrapy spiders
- self-host a stateless rendering service
When to choose
- you need a lightweight, stateless js-rendering service with a simple http api
- you use scrapy and want javascript rendering via scrapy-splash
- you want to script browser behavior with lua over http
When to avoid
- you need full modern browser automation with devtools protocol - prefer playwright or puppeteer
- you need actively developed software with recent feature work
- you need a real interactive browser session rather than stateless rendering
Facets
service · maturity maintenance
http-server web-scraping http-client web-development crawlers developer-tools python self-hosted javascript-rendering headless-browser scrapy twisted qt5 browser-as-a-service linux docker
2 sources
- readme: https://github.com/scrapinghub/splash · fetched 2026-08-28 · b67fdf04c892
- registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/splash/json · fetched 2026-08-29 · 52adcc0b7ca1
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| scrapinghub/splash | main | 32 |
For agents
markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="scrapinghub/splash")
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