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Developers describe jsdom as "A JavaScript implementation of the WHATWG DOM and HTML standards, for use with node.js". 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. On the other hand, Splash is detailed as "Headless browser that executes JavaScript for people crawling websites". 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.

jsdom and Splash can be primarily classified as "Headless Browsers" tools.

jsdom and Splash are both open source tools. jsdom with 12.9K GitHub stars and 1.16K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Splash with 2.6K GitHub stars and 364 GitHub forks.

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    What is 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.

    What is Splash?

    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.

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