On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 10:53 PM, Nevo<[email protected]> wrote: > > > 2009/8/26 Dan <[email protected]> >> >> Hi list, >> Just posted this to webkit-dev, and was advised that this is a better list >> for the question. Sorry if this is a little vague... but, does anyone have >> any general guidance as to where I'd start with webkit if I wanted to build >> a headless web client, along the lines of a crawler / bot, on top of it? >> Would I be best to use individual parts of the code, or implement a browser >> and hide the UI side of it? >> I'm not much of a C++/ObjC developer, so I can't begin to expect to be >> able to do this immediately, but any tips you can give would be greatly >> appreciated. > > You might take a look at Webkit's WebInspector, which helps you to view DOM > hierarchy in a tree style , so you could have a good sense of how WebCore > manipulates/traverses a web page . >
I have a related question on this kind of Webkit usage as well. How can we run Webkit without any display (e.g. X server on Linux)? For web crawler purpose, it does not need to display anything on screen. Is there a configure of Webkit for this kind of thing? Thank you. > Nevo > > > _______________________________________________ > webkit-help mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-help > > _______________________________________________ webkit-help mailing list [email protected] http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-help
