bbc/wraith
Wraith — A responsive screenshot comparison tool observed · 2026-10-08
Health v2 · maintenance only
10/100
- Activity 54
- Release rhythm 8
- Longevity 100
Flags: archived
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-10-21. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 5018
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 278
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
4819 stars · 350 forks observed · 2026-10-08
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
Wraith is a Ruby CLI tool from BBC News that takes screenshots of webpages with a headless browser across different environments or points in time, then generates image diffs highlighting changed areas. It outputs diff PNGs, a change-percentage report, and an HTML gallery, and can fail CI builds when diffs exceed a threshold.
Use cases
- compare screenshots of staging vs production sites
- visual regression testing for responsive web pages
- detect unintended CSS changes after a deploy
- compare a website against itself over time
- screenshot specific components via CSS selectors
- run screenshot comparisons in CI pipelines
When to choose
- you need automated visual diffing of web pages at multiple screen widths
- you want a simple Ruby gem for screenshot comparison with CI exit codes
- you're maintaining a legacy setup already built around Wraith
When to avoid
- starting a new project - the repo is explicitly unmaintained and issues/PRs are not monitored
- you rely on PhantomJS/CasperJS, which are themselves deprecated
- you need actively supported visual regression tooling like Percy, BackstopJS, or Playwright screenshot tests
Facets
cli-tool · maturity abandoned
testing image-processing e2e-testing web-development testing developer-tools cli cross-platform ruby visual-regression screenshot-diff responsive-design headless-browser unmaintained
2 sources
- readme: https://github.com/bbc/wraith · fetched 2026-10-08 · ab0113310a78
- homepage: http://bbc.github.io/wraith/ · fetched 2026-08-29 · c71250ec6f6f
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| bbc/wraith | main | 10 |
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