> PhantomJS ... But does it works with node.js? I heard it needs to maintain its own control over the loop.
On Friday, 24 January 2014 18:26:17 UTC+4, Matt Sergeant wrote: > > 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]<javascript:> > > 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]<javascript:> >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] <javascript:> >> 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] <javascript:>. >> 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.
