PhantomJS works extremely well if you can deal with the occasional random segfaults, and is much faster than Selenium.
On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 5:02 AM, Alexey Petrushin < [email protected]> wrote: > Let's start with simpler question - what browser emulator works with > node.js? (I meant full emulation, not just HTML processor like cheerio) > > I know two options: > > - Zombie.js - a nice thing, simple and fast but not very stable. > - Selenium - have all possible features but slow and complex to use (can > be used from node.js via adapter) > > Any other? I heard Fantom.js also may work with node.js but not sure about > it. > > > On Thursday, 16 January 2014 06:09:48 UTC+4, Victor Hooi wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I'm wondering if anybody knows of any web-scraping frameworks in Node.JS? >> >> Previously, there was node.io (https://github.com/chriso/node.io), >> however, the project was recently discontinued. >> >> Googling for Node.JS and web scraping, most of the guides online just >> talk about using requests and cheerio - it works, but you need to handle a >> whole bunch of things yourself (throttling, distributing jobs, >> configuration, managing jobs etc.). >> >> On the Python side, I know of Scrapy (https://github.com/scrapy/scrapy), >> which is using Twisted for asynchronicity >> >> On the Ruby side, Nokogiri (http://nokogiri.org/) is meant to be good, >> although I haven't dived into it much. >> >> Is there anything equivalent in the Node world? Or what approaches are >> people using to tackle this problem? >> >> Cheers, >> Victor >> > -- > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "nodejs" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
