# cobrateam/splinter

splinter - python test framework for web applications

Repository: https://github.com/cobrateam/splinter
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/splinter
Homepage: http://splinter.readthedocs.org/en/stable/index.html
Language: Python
License: BSD-3-Clause
License Family: permissive
Topics: python, selenium, automation, webdriver, hacktoberfest
Last push: 2025-08-16T15:08:24+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 39/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 37, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5828, "days_push": 382, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2753, forks 510 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:18.125834+00:00)

## What it is
Splinter is a Python library providing a simple, consistent API for browser automation and web application acceptance testing. It abstracts multiple drivers such as Selenium, Django, Flask, and ZopeTestBrowser, while allowing fallback to raw Selenium when needed.

## Use cases
- automate browser interactions in python
- write acceptance tests for web applications
- fill forms and click buttons programmatically
- scrape websites with a headless browser
- run end-to-end tests with selenium from python
- test django or flask apps in a browser

## When to choose
- you want a friendlier, higher-level API than raw Selenium
- you need to switch between automation drivers without rewriting tests
- you are writing pytest-based web acceptance tests

## When to avoid
- you need very low-level or exotic Selenium features not exposed by the abstraction
- you only need HTTP-level API testing without a real browser
- you need non-Python tooling

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: active
- function: testing, e2e-testing, web-scraping, http-client
- domain: testing, web-development
- platform: python, cross-platform
- tags: selenium, webdriver, browser-automation, acceptance-testing, pytest-plugin, automation

## Member repositories
- cobrateam/splinter (main) score 39

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:18.125834+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 2026-08-30T08:18:53.772774+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/cobrateam/splinter (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:18.125834+00:00, sha 80d6ee821fb8)
  - registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/splinter/json (fetched 2026-08-29T09:57:21.023240+00:00, sha e22ea464954c)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.