pytest-reporter-plus 0.3.0

Lightweight enhanced HTML reporter for Pytest

🧪 pytest-reporter-plus

A powerful, plug-and-play Pytest plugin to generate HTML + JSON reports, detect flaky tests, and optionally * send reports via email*. Works beautifully with or without xdist.

🚀 Installation

pip install pytest-reporter-plus
# or with Poetry
poetry add pytest-reporter-plus

🧾 Usage

Generate HTML + JSON reports:

pytest

If you are running with xdist

pytest -n numberOfWorkers

You’ll get:

report.html – a clean, styled HTML report

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Available Options

Option	Description	Default	Choices
--json-report	Path to save individual JSON test reports	playwright_report.json	Any valid file path
--capture-screenshots	When to capture screenshots	failed	failed, all, none
--html-output	Directory to output HTML reports	report_output	Any valid directory
--screenshots	Directory where screenshots will be stored	screenshots	Any valid directory
--send-email	Send HTML report via email after the test run	False	True, False
--should-open-report	Open your HTML report automatically post completion	failed	always, failed, never

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Keep using your regular pytest commands — just plug this in to unlock the below powerful reporting features with zero extra effort.

✨ Features

🧩 Unified Test Reports: Get a single, easy-to-read HTML report summarizing all your test results — no hassle, just clarity.

Easily track Untracked test scenarios

🔄 Flaky Test Detection: Automatically flags flaky tests so you can spot and fix inconsistent failures quickly.

📸 Screenshot Support: View screenshots directly in the report to understand failures faster.

📧 Email Test Reports: Send your reports via email effortlessly using SendGrid integration.

🐢 Spot Slow Tests: Highlights the slowest tests so you know where to optimize your suite.

📝 Comprehensive output capture: All your test logs with loggers, print() statements, and screenshots are automatically captured and embedded in the report...

🔍 Universal Test Search + Smart Link Navigation

Whether you're trying to trace coverage or track unlinked test cases — this search has your back!

Just start typing, and the dashboard will instantly filter tests by:

✅ Test name

✅ Linked issue/documentation IDs (like JIRA, Testmo, Notion, etc.)

✅ Custom URLs or keywords present in the links

AND MANY MANY MORE

Target Audience

This plugin is aimed at those who are:

• Tired of writing extra code just to generate reports or capture screenshots

• Manually attaching logs or outputs to test results

• Are frustrated with archiving folders full of assets, CSS, JS, and dashboards just to share test results.

• Don’t want to refactor existing test suites or tag everything with new decorators just to integrate with a reporting tool.

• Prefer simplicity — a zero-config, zero code, lightweight report that still looks clean, useful, and polished.

• Want “just enough” — not bare-bones plain text, not a full dashboard with database setup — just a portable HTML report that STILL supports features like links, screenshots, and markers.

Comparison with Alternatives

Most existing pytest reporter tools:

Only generate HTML reports from a single run (by making you write code for creating xmls like pytest-html) OR they generate all the JS and png files that are not the scope of test results and force you to archive it.

Heavy duty with bloated charts and other test management features(when they arent your only test management system either) increasing your archive size.

This plugin aims to fill those gaps by acting as a companion layer on top of the JSON report, focusing on:

🔄 Merge + flakiness intelligence

🔗 Traceability via metadata

🧼 HTML that’s both readable and minimal

🧼 Quickly copy test paths and run in your local

📧 Email Report (Optional)

Send the HTML report via email using --send-email. Please note you will need your own sendgrid setup to use this feature

Create an emailenv file in your project folder that has the following

sender_email=[e-mail]
recipient_email=[e-mail]
report_path=report.html
subject=Your Test Report
smtp_server=smtp.sendgrid.net
smtp_port=587
email_password=your_sendgrid_api_key

Run

pytest --send-email

🤝 Contributions

PRs, issues, and feature requests are welcome! Let's make this tool more awesome together.

Setting up the project is pretty simple

docker build -t pytest-reporter-plus .
docker run -it pytest-reporter-plus /bin/bash 
poetry install --dev

poetry run pytest tests/ 

Motivation

I’m building and maintaining this in my free time, and would really appreciate:

⭐ Stars if you find it useful

🐞 Bug reports, feedback, or PRs if you try it out

📜 License

MIT