helium

Why we included this project

Raw Selenium works, but it makes you chase elements by XPaths, CSS selectors, and HTML IDs, which gets painful fast. Helium sits on top of Selenium and lets you target elements by the text a user actually sees, so scripts come out shorter and hold up better when a page's markup shifts. Because it is a wrapper rather than a replacement, you can still drop down to plain driver calls when you need low-level control. The library also handles nested iFrames, popups, and implicit waits for you, cutting out a lot of boilerplate from scrapers, browser-based data collection, and repeatable UI tasks. A cheatsheet and fuller documentation make it quick to get productive.