# mkoehnke/WKZombie

WKZombie is a Swift framework for iOS/OSX to navigate within websites and collect data without the need of User Interface or API, also known as Headless browser. It can be used to run automated tests / snapshots and manipulate websites using Javascript.

Repository: https://github.com/mkoehnke/WKZombie
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/wkzombie
Language: Swift
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: swift, headless, browser, ios, osx, testing
Last push: 2020-09-28T11:16:00+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3932, "days_push": 2165, "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 1185, forks 100 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:54.946787+00:00)

## What it is
WKZombie is a Swift headless browser framework for iOS and macOS that navigates websites and collects data without a user interface or API, built on WKWebView and hpple. It supports chained asynchronous actions, JavaScript-based website manipulation, snapshots, and automated testing.

## Use cases
- scrape website data without an API
- automate interactions with websites
- take automated page snapshots
- run automated tests against web pages
- manipulate websites using JavaScript
- parse HTML and JSON content in Swift

## When to avoid
- you need a actively maintained headless browser (last release 2020)
- you are scraping on Linux servers or non-Apple platforms
- you need full modern browser automation features like those in Playwright or Puppeteer

## Facets
- artifact type: framework
- maturity: maintenance
- function: web-scraping, testing, parser, http-client
- domain: web-development, developer-tools, testing
- platform: -
- tags: headless-browser, webkit, html-parsing, functional-programming, web-automation, snapshots, automation, ios, macos, swift

## Member repositories
- mkoehnke/WKZombie (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:54.946787+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 2026-08-30T06:24:07.957265+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/mkoehnke/WKZombie (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:54.946787+00:00, sha 7079290a72a2)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.