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Extends Selenium to give you the ability to inspect requests made by the browser.
Last release 4 years ago
no release in 18 months
Ships fairly regularly
a new release about every 6 weeks
Nearly every release is documented
notes for 60 of the last 60 stable releases
Nothing withdrawn
no release was ever pulled
8 years old
76 releases · first in 2018
Drop support for Selenium<4.0.0.
Drop support for Selenium<4.0.0.
Drop support for SSLv2 and SSLv3.
Fix bug where setting non-string header values would cause an interceptor to fail.
Add support for Microsoft Edge to webdriver
Add support for Microsoft Edge to webdriver
Drop support for Python 3.6
Fix compatibility issue with PyOpenSSL
Fix compatibility issue with DesiredCapabilities and older versions of the Chrome webdriver API.
One column per quarter.
Fix compatibility issue with DesiredCapabilities and older versions of the Chrome webdriver API.
Fix bug where verify_ssl would assume the inverse of the boolean passed (it was the wrong way round).
Minor update to support Python 3.10.
Minor README updates.
Fix bug where setting an interceptor would break websocket requests.
Fix bug where setting an interceptor would break websocket requests.
Fix bug with dynamic switching of upstream proxy.
Fix bug with dynamic switching of upstream proxy.
Fix import error with missing TouchActions in Selenium>4.1.0
Fix import error with missing TouchActions in Selenium>4.1.0
Fix compatibility issue with undetected_chromedriver.
Fix compatibility issue with undetected_chromedriver.
Handle occasional unpickle error when loading captured requests from disk.
Configurable root certificate and private key.
Configurable root certificate and private key.
Fix bug where it was not possible to clear a proxy once set.
Fix bug where using the chrome_options argument would prevent request capture.
Fix bug where using the chrome_options argument would prevent request capture.
Fix issue where Proxy-Connection header was being propagated.
Fix deprecation warnings with desired capabilities.
Fix issue where missing 'packaging' module prevents Selenium Wire from starting.
Fix deprecation warnings with desired capabilities.
Fix bug preventing request capture when using Firefox and Selenium >= 4.0.0
Fix bug preventing request capture when using Firefox and Selenium >= 4.0.0
Fix bug where setting a socket timeout would break the SSL handshake.
Fix bug where setting a socket timeout would break the SSL handshake.
Support for brotli and zstd content encoding.
Suppress HTTP protocol warning.
Fix bug where automatic decoding of response body would break page loading when using response interceptors.
Fix bug where automatic decoding of response body would break page loading when using response interceptors.
Fix bug where exclude_hosts had no effect when using undetected_chromedriver.v2.
Fix occasional unpickle error when stored requests are asked for before they have been fully flushed to disk.
Fix attribute error preventing undetected chromedriver from starting.
Fix attribute error preventing undetected chromedriver from starting.
Allow upstream proxy to be changed on the fly.
Allow upstream proxy to be changed on the fly.
Fix async bug that breaks Django ORM.
Fix async bug that breaks Django ORM.
Introduce in-memory request storage.
Introduce in-memory request storage.
Default request storage now uses system temp folder by default.
Remove mitmproxy backend. Selenium Wire uses mitmproxy by default so a separate mitmproxy backend is redundant.
Fix proxy authorization failures when Selenium Wire is run in multiple threads.
Fix proxy authorization failures when Selenium Wire is run in multiple threads.
Fix bug where the upstream no_proxy setting would be ignored for http hosts.
Fix bug where the upstream no_proxy setting would be ignored for http hosts.
Prevent Firefox from bypassing Selenium Wire for localhost addresses.
Fix bug where DNS wasn't being resolved through the proxy for socks5h.
Don't fold separate Set-Cookie response headers into a single header.
Don't fold separate Set-Cookie response headers into a single header.
Add additional SSL certificate properties to request.cert
Allow selection of undetected_chromedriver version.
Allow selection of undetected_chromedriver version.
Add new attribute request.host
Switch to upstream_cert=True by default, enabling HTTP/2.
Switch to upstream_cert=True by default, enabling HTTP/2.
Fix bug where disable_capture would break upstream proxy authentication.
Fix bug where disable_capture would break upstream proxy authentication.
Fix bug where it was not possible to specify socks4 in proxy configuration.
Fix bug where it was not possible to specify socks4 in proxy configuration.
Fix concurrency issue in RequestStorage that allowed partially stored requests to be retrieved.
Fix concurrency issue in RequestStorage that allowed partially stored requests to be retrieved.
Make SSL certificate metadata available via request.cert
Make SSL certificate metadata available via request.cert
Suppress connection aborted error by default.
Log error on proxy authentication failure.
Fix bug where no_proxy was being ignored in proxy configuration.
Add support for HAR format.
Add disable_capture option.
Add driver.iter_requests().
Fix bug where no_proxy was being ignored in proxy configuration.
Integration with undetected-chromedriver.
Integration with undetected-chromedriver.
Implement websocket message capture.
Implement websocket message capture.
Fix bug where closure of event loop externally would trigger exception on shutdown.
Fix bug preventing use of an empty password for an upstream proxy.
Downgrade "The client may not trust Selenium Wire's certificate" to debug.
Downgrade "The client may not trust Selenium Wire's certificate" to debug.
Introduce auto_config option.
Fix bug where Selenium Wire would attempt to close running event loop.
Fix bug where Selenium Wire would attempt to close running event loop.
Fix bug where IPv6 addresses were not being enclosed in square brackets, breaking the local proxy URL.
Fix bug where IPv6 addresses were not being enclosed in square brackets, breaking the local proxy URL.
Fix additional problems caused by IPv6 socket binding.
Fix additional problems caused by IPv6 socket binding.
Fix bug where binding to IPv6 socket would prevent Selenium Wire from starting.
Fix bug where binding to IPv6 socket would prevent Selenium Wire from starting.
improve performance when connecting to upstream proxies
improve performance when connecting to upstream proxies
remove the need for starting an openssl subprocess for certificate generation
fix issue where duplicate headers could not be proxied to the upstream server
fix issue where the response status code was being overridden by the CONNECT status
lay the groundwork for supporting websocket message capture
lay the groundwork for supporting SSL pass-through
Fix bug preventing mitmproxy backend from using custom confdir.
Fix bug preventing mitmproxy backend from using custom confdir.
Suppress upstream connection errors based on configuration.
Suppress upstream connection errors based on configuration.
Revert change to capture OPTIONS requests by default.
Revert change to capture OPTIONS requests by default.
* Decode response body on load.
Decode response body on load.
Fix issue where remote web driver client was being imported from incorrect package.
Fix issue where remote web driver client was being imported from incorrect package.
Create a new event loop if current event loop is closed.
Create a new event loop if current event loop is closed.
Deprecation of header_overrides, param_overrides, querystring_overrides, rewrite_urls, custom_response_handler
Inroduce request and response interceptors.
Run mitmproxy backend in a thread rather than subprocess.
Drop internal HTTP admin API.
Drop support for Python 3.4 and 3.5.
Add support for remote webdriver client.
Add support for duplicate request and response headers.
Fixed issue where Proxy-Connection header was being propagated.
Fixed issue where desired capabilities could not be reused outside of Selenium Wire due to addition of proxy config.
Deprecation of header_overrides, param_overrides, querystring_overrides, rewrite_urls, custom_response_handler
Prevent Chrome from bypassing Selenium Wire for localhost addresses.
Prevent Chrome from bypassing Selenium Wire for localhost addresses.
Automatic port number selection for mitmproxy backend.
Automatic port number selection for mitmproxy backend.
Support regular expressions in driver.wait_for_request().
Support regular expressions in driver.wait_for_request().
Introduce the mitmproxy backend
Introduce the mitmproxy backend
Support for modifying response headers
Support for modifying request parameters and the query string
the request.path attribute now returns the path rather than the full URL. To retrieve the URL, use request.url.
empty request and response bodies are now returned as empty bytes b'' rather than None.
Disable connection persistence by default due to side effects in certain cases.
Disable connection persistence by default due to side effects in certain cases.
Close connection on error rather than send 502 response to permit browser retry.
Close connection on error rather than send 502 response to permit browser retry.
Use SHA256 digest when creating site certificates to fix Chrome HSTS security errors.
Use SHA256 digest when creating site certificates to fix Chrome HSTS security errors.
Add properties to allow easy retrieval of the query string and request parameters.
Add properties to allow easy retrieval of the query string and request parameters.
Don't verify SSL by default.
Allow configurable number of request threads.
Use connection persistance (keep-alive) by default. Make configurable.
Fix bug where request thread would spin after websocket closure.
Fix bug where request thread would spin after websocket closure.
Handle errors occuring on websocket connections.
Handle errors occuring on websocket connections.
Allow the request storage base directory to be configurable.
Allow the request storage base directory to be configurable.
Support proxying websocket connections.
Fix bug where attempting to filter out non-existent headers would raise an error.
Handle possibility of zero byte captured request/response files.
* Support for SOCKS proxies.
Support for SOCKS proxies.
Fix duplication of content-length header when altering body content.
Fix duplication of content-length header when altering body content.
Apply header filtering on a per-URL basis.
Scope request capture.
Apply header filtering on a per-URL basis.
Add ability to provide a custom response handler method.
Add ability to provide a custom response handler method.
Remove signal handler from AdminClient to allow running in multi-threaded environment.
Remove signal handler from AdminClient to allow running in multi-threaded environment.
Make connection timeout configurable.
Fix bug where temporary storage cleanup would sometimes fail when running in a multi-threaded environment.
Fix bug where temporary storage cleanup would sometimes fail when running in a multi-threaded environment.
Don't rely on signal handlers for temporary storage cleanup. Signal handlers are not compatible with multiple threads. Use driver.quit() for explicit cleanup.
Support for disabling SSL verification when using self-signed certificates.
Support for disabling SSL verification when using self-signed certificates.
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