Dash vs Splash
Overview
Share your Stack
Help developers discover the tools you use. Get visibility for your team's tech choices and contribute to the community's knowledge.
CLI (Node.js)
Manual
Detailed Comparison
Dash is an API Documentation Browser and Code Snippet Manager. Dash stores snippets of code and instantly searches offline documentation sets for 150+ APIs. You can even generate your own docsets or request docsets to be included. | It is a headless browser that executes JavaScript for people crawling websites. It is open source and fully integrated with Scrapy and Portia. You can also use its API to integrate with any project that needs to render JavaScript pages. |
150+ offline docsets;Instant, fuzzy search;Great integration with other apps;Easily download docsets;Easily generate docsets:;Supports AppleDoc docsets;Supports Doxygen docsets;Supports CocoaDocs docsets;Supports Python / Sphinx docsets;Supports Ruby / RDoc docsets;Supports Javadoc docsets;Supports Scaladoc docsets;Supports Any HTML docsets;Easily switch between docsets:;Smart search profiles;Docset keywords;Documentation bookmarks;Convenient, filterable table of contents;Highlighted in-page search | Executes and renders JavaScript to scrape dynamic content; Its HTTP API receives URLs and responses with HTML contents |
Statistics | |
GitHub Stars - | GitHub Stars 4.2K |
GitHub Forks - | GitHub Forks 516 |
Stacks 314 | Stacks 29 |
Followers 408 | Followers 36 |
Votes 63 | Votes 0 |
Pros & Cons | |
Pros
| No community feedback yet |
Integrations | |
| No integrations available | |
What are some alternatives to Dash, Splash?
Playwright
It is a Node library to automate the Chromium, WebKit and Firefox browsers with a single API. It enables cross-browser web automation that is ever-green, capable, reliable and fast.
Puppeteer
Puppeteer is a Node library which provides a high-level API to control headless Chrome over the DevTools Protocol. It can also be configured to use full (non-headless) Chrome.
PhantomJS
PhantomJS is a headless WebKit scriptable with JavaScript. It is used by hundreds of developers and dozens of organizations for web-related development workflow.
DevDocs
DevDocs is an API documentation browser that combines multiple docs in a single web UI with instant fuzzy search, offline mode, keyboard shortcuts, and more.
HeadlessTesting
Headless Browser Cloud for Developers. Connect your Puppeteer and Playwright scripts to our Cloud. Automated Browser Testing with Puppeteer and Playwright in the Cloud.
AnyAPI
AnyAPI is a curated list of publicly available APIs. APIs Guru provides Swagger specifications for over 100 APIs, which are then passed to LucyBot to generate the documentation and API consoles.
jsdom
It is a pure-JavaScript implementation of many web standards, notably the WHATWG DOM and HTML Standards, for use with Node.js. In general, the goal of the project is to emulate enough of a subset of a web browser to be useful for testing and scraping real-world web applications.
CasperJS
CasperJS is a browser navigation scripting & testing utility written in Javascript for PhantomJS or SlimerJS.
Chromeless
Chrome automation made simple. Runs locally or headless on AWS Lambda.
SlimerJS
It allows you to manipulate a web page with an external Javascript script: opening a webpage, clicking on links, modifying the content... It is useful to do functional tests, page automation, network monitoring, screen capture etc.
