HashNuke/hound

Hound is a browser automation library for Elixir that provides a high-level API for controlling web browsers via WebDriver. It supports multiple browser backends, including Chrome, Firefox, and PhantomJS, and offers comprehensive helpers for managing sessions, interacting with page elements, and handling browser events. The system includes robust test coverage and automated WebDriver startup scripts to facilitate reliable end-to-end testing.

The Hound library introduces a comprehensive set of new helper modules to interact with the browser, including Hound.Helpers.Cookie for managing cookies, Hound.Helpers.Dialog for handling JavaScript alerts and prompts, and Hound.Helpers.Element for element inspection and interaction. Additional helpers have been added for navigation (Hound.Helpers.Navigation), page source and title retrieval (Hound.Helpers.Page), mouse events (Hound.Helpers.Mouse), browser orientation (Hound.Helpers.Orientation), saving pages (Hound.Helpers.SavePage), taking screenshots (Hound.Helpers.Screenshot), executing JavaScript (Hound.Helpers.ScriptExecution), managing browser sessions (Hound.Helpers.Session), and controlling browser windows and frames (Hound.Helpers.Window).

lib/hound/helpers · high confidence

The library now uses a new \Hound.Browser\ behaviour to define browser-specific capabilities and user agents, with dedicated modules for Chrome, Chrome Headless, Firefox, PhantomJS, and a default fallback. Session management has been refactored to use a GenServer (\Hound.SessionServer\) backed by ETS for tracking sessions per process, replacing the previous protocol-based approach. This change simplifies session creation and cleanup, and allows for configurable retry logic and browser-specific capabilities.

lib/hound · high confidence

Session management functions (start\_session, end\_session, current\_session\_id) are now delegated to the Hound.Helpers.Session module, providing a cleaner public API for users to manage browser sessions.

lib · medium confidence

Added comprehensive test coverage for Hound components; Added comprehensive test coverage for browser automation helpers; Added sample HTML pages for testing; Added test coverage for browser implementations; Automated WebDriver startup script for tests.

Hound is updated to version 1.1.1, requiring Elixir 1.4.0 or higher. The library now uses \hackney\ for HTTP requests and \jason\ for JSON parsing, replacing previous dependencies like \httpoison\ and \poison\. Documentation tooling is updated to use \ex\_doc\ 0.16+ and \earmark\ 1.2+.

(dependencies) · high confidence

Written by watchdog.canine.dev from the codebase's own history, inside the signed delivery this page is composed from.

• CAI 65 → 58 (-6.9)
• Rubric changed (rubric-2026.08.19 → rubric-2026.09.15) — scores are not directly comparable.

• Code Health 100 → 100 (-0.1)
• Architecture 100 → 100 (+0.0)
• Maturity 50 → 50 (+0.0)
• Readiness 57 → 45 (-11.9)
• Security 98 → 79 (-19.2)

• Coverage not included — suite not readable by the collector
• Dependency hygiene not measured — no supported dependency manifest was read
• Duplicated block (8 lines × 2) (lib/hound/helpers/page.ex)
• High CVE: [GHSA redacted] (mix.lock)
• No exposed public API
• Test reliability not included
• dormant codebase — no living knowledge left to concentrate

• Documentation: no installation or build instructions (README.md)
• Documentation: no usage examples (README.md)
• Duplicated block (8 lines × 2) (lib/hound/helpers/page.ex)
• High CVE: [GHSA redacted] (mix.lock)
• No SBOM
• No artifact signing
• No build provenance
• No dependency advisory monitoring
• Outdated: ex_doc
• Outdated: jason
• Retired release: earmark
• TodoComment (lib/hound/helpers/window.ex)

Written by watchdog.canine.dev from the codebase's own history, inside the signed delivery this page is composed from.

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