Splinter

Splinter is an open source tool for testing web applications using Python. It lets you automate browser actions, such as visiting URLs and interacting with their items.

Sample code

from splinter import Browser

with Browser() as browser:
    # Visit URL
    url = "http://www.google.com"
    browser.visit(url)
    browser.fill('q', 'splinter - python acceptance testing for web applications')
    # Find and click the 'search' button
    button = browser.find_by_name('btnG')
    # Interact with elements
    button.click()
    if browser.is_text_present('splinter.readthedocs.io'):
        print("Yes, the official website was found!")
    else:
        print("No, it wasn't found... We need to improve our SEO techniques")

Note: if you don’t provide any driver to the Browser function, firefox will be used.

Features

  • simple api
  • multiple webdrivers (chrome, firefox, zopetestbrowser, remote webdriver, Django, Flask)
  • css and xpath selectors
  • support for iframes and alerts
  • can execute javascript
  • works with ajax and async javascript

what’s new in splinter?

JavaScript support

Drivers

Browser based drivers

The following drivers open a browser to run your actions:

Headless drivers

The following drivers don’t open a browser to run your actions (but each has its own dependencies, check the specific docs for each driver):

Remote driver

The remote driver uses Selenium Remote to control a web browser on a remote machine.