Gathering detailed insights and metrics for wicked-good-xpath
Gathering detailed insights and metrics for wicked-good-xpath
Pure JS implementation of the DOM Level 3 XPath specification
Installations
npm install wicked-good-xpathDeveloper Guide
BETA
Typescript
No
Module System
CommonJS
Node Version
5.9.1
NPM Version
3.7.3
Releases
5
Languages
4
JavaScript
HTML
Python
Shell
JavaScript (69.86%)
HTML (28.88%)
Python (0.9%)
Shell (0.36%)
Developer
Download Statistics
Total Downloads
0
Last Day
0
Last Week
0
Last Month
0
Last Year
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GitHub Statistics
MIT License
284 Stars
50 Commits
67 Forks
25 Watchers
2 Branches
20 Contributors
Updated on Jun 16, 2025
Maintainers
1
Package Meta Information
Latest Version
1.3.0
Package Id
wicked-good-xpath@1.3.0
Size
12.30 kB
NPM Version
3.7.3
Node Version
5.9.1
Published on
Apr 01, 2016
Total Downloads
Cumulative downloads
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NaN
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0%
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Dev Dependencies
3
Wicked Good XPath
About
Wicked Good XPath is a Google-authored pure JavaScript implementation of the DOM Level 3 XPath specification. It enables XPath evaluation for HTML documents in every browser. We believe it to be the fastest XPath implementation available in JavaScript.
Instructions
Download the latest wgxpath.install.js file and include it on your webpage with a script tag. For example:
1<script src="wgxpath.install.js"></script>
Then call wgxpath.install() from your JavaScript code, which will ensure document.evaluate, the XPath evaluation function, is defined on the window object. To install the library on a different window, pass that window as an argument to the install function.
We provide an NPM package at https://www.npmjs.com/package/wicked-good-xpath. There's also another NPM package at https://www.npmjs.com/package/wgxpath.
Building it Yourself
We use Gulp:
npm install
gulp
You can also run src/compile.sh if you want to use different versions of
Closure Compiler / Closure Library.
History
Wicked Good XPath started as a Google Closure port of the JavaScript-XPath project by Cybozu Labs. At the time, JavaScript-XPath was the fastest JavaScript implementation of XPath available --- a whopping 10 times faster than Google's own AJAXSLT --- which made it a popular choice, notable for frontend web testing tools like Selenium and Web Puppeteer.
While it was fast, the code fell out of maintenance (last update was in 2007) so bugs were tough to get fixed. Also, since it wasn't written in Google Closure, it was tricky for us Googlers to integrate into our JavaScript applications. A rewrite was necessary.
However, we went beyond merely porting the library to Google Closure and fixing a couple bugs. We identified some significant additional performance improvements, such that our version runs about 30% faster than the original. On top of that, the Closure compiler was able to minify our code down to a mere 25K, 40% smaller than JavaScript-XPath's 42K (though it has grown a bit since). Finally, the code is structured and documented in a way that we believe will make future maintenance quicker and easier.
No vulnerabilities found.
Reason
no binaries found in the repo
Reason
0 existing vulnerabilities detected
Reason
license file detected
Details
- Info: project has a license file: LICENSE:0
- Info: FSF or OSI recognized license: MIT License: LICENSE:0
Reason
security policy file detected
Details
- Info: security policy file detected: github.com/google/.github/SECURITY.md:1
- Info: Found linked content: github.com/google/.github/SECURITY.md:1
- Info: Found disclosure, vulnerability, and/or timelines in security policy: github.com/google/.github/SECURITY.md:1
- Info: Found text in security policy: github.com/google/.github/SECURITY.md:1
Reason
project is archived
Details
- Warn: Repository is archived.
Reason
Found 1/29 approved changesets -- score normalized to 0
Reason
no effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected
Reason
project is not fuzzed
Details
- Warn: no fuzzer integrations found
Reason
Project has not signed or included provenance with any releases.
Details
- Warn: release artifact 1.3.0 not signed: https://api.github.com/repos/google/wicked-good-xpath/releases/2931808
- Warn: release artifact 1.2.9 not signed: https://api.github.com/repos/google/wicked-good-xpath/releases/2931728
- Warn: release artifact 1.2.8 not signed: https://api.github.com/repos/google/wicked-good-xpath/releases/2900931
- Warn: release artifact 1.2 not signed: https://api.github.com/repos/google/wicked-good-xpath/releases/2628876
- Warn: release artifact 1.1 not signed: https://api.github.com/repos/google/wicked-good-xpath/releases/1689187
- Warn: release artifact 1.3.0 does not have provenance: https://api.github.com/repos/google/wicked-good-xpath/releases/2931808
- Warn: release artifact 1.2.9 does not have provenance: https://api.github.com/repos/google/wicked-good-xpath/releases/2931728
- Warn: release artifact 1.2.8 does not have provenance: https://api.github.com/repos/google/wicked-good-xpath/releases/2900931
- Warn: release artifact 1.2 does not have provenance: https://api.github.com/repos/google/wicked-good-xpath/releases/2628876
- Warn: release artifact 1.1 does not have provenance: https://api.github.com/repos/google/wicked-good-xpath/releases/1689187
Reason
branch protection not enabled on development/release branches
Details
- Warn: branch protection not enabled for branch 'master'
Reason
SAST tool is not run on all commits -- score normalized to 0
Details
- Warn: 0 commits out of 4 are checked with a SAST tool
Score
3.5
/10
Last Scanned on 2025-07-07
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