Is pyppeteer still maintained?

[laike9m]

First I want to give credit to @miyakogi for making Headless Chrome easy to use in Python. I'm just a bit concerned about its maintenance. There are a lot of open issues and PRs(including some critical usability issues), last commit was on 2019 May, and Python 3.8 hasn't been tested and supported(though it may still work). It's always sad to see great projects left unmaintained, then people gradually stopped using it. I don't want pyppeteer to go along this way.

Any ideas?

[Granitosaurus]

I've started a github organization and a fork: https://github.com/pyppeteer/pyppeteer
Looking for maintainers and contributors!

I'm just starting to familiarize with the codebase but it's quite a bit to chew through though it's quite accessible so I invite anyone interested to join us!

I've also emailed the original author but never got a reply, I hope they are ok.

Call for contributors thread: pyppeteer/pyppeteer#1
Matrix dev channel: https://matrix.to/#/!ScehqfCSdMAUhZoeDC:matrix.org?via=matrix.org (#pyppeteer@matrix.org)

[laike9m]

@Granitosaurus That is good to hear, thank you. I have one concern though: you don't have pypi ownership, which means you cannot publish new versions under the name pyppeteer.

It seems only the current owners are able to add new collaboraters: pypi/warehouse#1745

The only way left seems to be registering a new pypi package, with a different name.

[Granitosaurus]

Thanks @laike9m
Unfortunately you're right. I couldn't get a hold of the maintainer for this so I went ahead with pyppeteer2 name on pypi.

[Mattwmaster58]

To add to this: the last I could find of the developer was a commit in the early fall of 2019. Everything seems to have gone dark since then. I found a twitter account by the same name, however, it was private.