helium vs pyleniumio

helium

Selenium-python but lighter: Helium is the best Python library for web automation. [Moved to: https://github.com/mherrmann/selenium-python-helium] (by mherrmann)

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pyleniumio

Bring the best of Selenium and Cypress into a single Python package (by ElSnoMan)

HacktoberFest Python web-automation web-automation-testing Selenium selenium-python selenium-webdriver

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helium		pyleniumio
	Project
2	Mentions	2
2,416	Stars	257
-	Growth	-
5.8	Activity	4.8
about 3 years ago	Latest Commit	5 days ago
Python	Language	Python
MIT License	License	MIT License

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helium

Posts with mentions or reviews of helium. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-14.

Playwright Test Generator
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Mar 2024

Unreasonably shameless plug for my open source Python library Helium, so you don't need a test generator. [1]
1: https://github.com/mherrmann/helium
How do I get passed an ad/popup?
1 project | /r/selenium | 19 Mar 2021

If using an extension of Selenium is an option for you, you can use (my) library Helium. It will let you do:

pyleniumio

Posts with mentions or reviews of pyleniumio. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-16.

BeautifulSoup vs Re for spidering with light scraping
2 projects | /r/learnpython | 16 Feb 2023

Pylenium (didn't use this one yet but on my todolist). Official description: Bring the best of Selenium, Cypress and Python into one package.
Hello, I’m going to job market next month. Any selenium interview questions?
1 project | /r/selenium | 10 Jul 2021

There are lots of similar projects on github like: https://github.com/ElSnoMan/pyleniumio that can aid as a starting point. But I like to keep selenium and drivers as recent as possible with the very latest browsers fresh from release automatically.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing helium and pyleniumio you can also consider the following projects:

undetected-chromedriver - Custom Selenium Chromedriver | Zero-Config | Passes ALL bot mitigation systems (like Distil / Imperva/ Datadadome / CloudFlare IUAM)

SeleniumBase - 📊 Python's all-in-one framework for web crawling, scraping, testing, and reporting. Supports pytest. UC Mode provides stealth. Includes many tools.

selenium-python-helium - Lighter web automation for Python [Moved to: https://github.com/mherrmann/helium]

webdriver_manager

Instagram-Like-Comment-Bot - 📷 An Instagram bot written in Python using Selenium on Google Chrome. It will go through posts in hashtag(s) and like and comment on them.

selenium_driver_updater - Download or update your Selenium driver binaries and their browsers automatically with this package

sillynium - Automate the creation of Python Selenium Scripts by drawing coloured boxes on webpage elements

s-tool - Selenium wrapper to make your life easy.

nextcloud-calendar-adressbook-backup-tool - The idea of the project was to save the nextcloud calendar and adressbook files for backup reasons. Personally, this was the more approbiate way of backing up my files than saving the SQL-Database and extract the calendar items from there.