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#32Cool, comes in quite handy! You may want to up your security-game though. Check the ~/FIXME file on your sever for more info :-)
Yeah, know it, but didn't spent that much time on it and it suddenly attract so much traction.
Will definitely do something serious about it.
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interesting but seems like just a selenium in the cloud. wouldn't it make more sense for someone to host automation scripts on their own servers?
It's actually more than that, our API doesn't only provide access to the Browser module. We provide an SDK that can help people build real-time applications that can connect with almost anything. We're getting ready to release our Raspberry Pi integration. We are also going to be going open source fairly soon.
how does the real time application benefit from automately?
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's actually more than that, our API doesn't only provide access to the Browser module. We provide an SDK that can help people build real-time applications that can connect with almost anything. We're getting ready to release our Raspberry Pi integration. We are also going to be going open source fairly soon.
how does the real time application benefit from automately?
We've basically created a connected platform that makes it very easy to connect things. You can have your web application talk to your server-side automately scripts. We've made it as simple as including some JavaScript on your web page. Our server-side APIs make it very easy to communicate with APIs and WebSites. Your Automately scripts can store data via the DataBus and they can talk to other execution jobs via the MessageBus.
Edit: Here's a very simple example http://searchproxy.automate.ly/
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#35Since the formal semantic failed to become massively used, everyone is trying to make sense of the Web using scraping. It's something most viable sites should want to get behind, from ecommerce where you can find the best price faster to education. But I suspect if a very good shared scraping system were created we'd see countermeasures pretty fast, from timid content producers, as well as the Googles who want to hav…
You are spot on with this. Data acquisition is the foundation of data science which in turn is the foundation of [fill in the blank]
Re: Show HN: Phantom JS interactive editor
#36Cool, comes in quite handy! You may want to up your security-game though. Check the ~/FIXME file on your sever for more info :-)
Yeah, know it, but didn't spent that much time on it and it suddenly attract so much traction. Will definitely do something serious about it.
Fixed. More security related improvements are coming.
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#37phantomjs is great for rastering svgs (d3.js visualizations)
That's exactly what I've used it for. My only complaint is that the documentation is not as nice as it could be.
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#38would love to write the script using http://www.nightmarejs.org instead ;)
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
how does the real time application benefit from automately?
We've basically created a connected platform that makes it very easy to connect things. You can have your web application talk to your server-side automately scripts. We've made it as simple as including some JavaScript on your web page. Our server-side APIs make it very easy to communicate with APIs and WebSites. Your Automately scripts can store data via the DataBus and they can talk to other execution jobs via the…
interesting idea! however, I am struggling to see when and how someone could use this, because almost always a developer such as myself would simply create an endpoint for something like this directly on the server.
It would be interesting to see what type of customers or use cases your solution might be of use.
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#40I tried with typekit with no success: http://phantomjs-pad.ozaur.com/DrDvxMADoP2TdF652 I was curious with this example, as I have had zero luck getting webfonts to render using PhantomJS so far. Have you had any success rendering webfonts?
The thing with phantomjs and webfonts is that it has an old webkit version which has some bugs with webfont support. Theres a branch from a phantomjs contributor on github that has bugfixes for webfonts support backported: https://github.com/Vitallium/phantomjs/tree/fix-WOFF-file-su... I use phantomjs for html to image rendering and I managed to get webfont support working with a custom build from that branch (workin…
PhantomJS is falling further and further behind. It also doesn't, for example, support scripts triggered DOM events.
The more time goes by, the more I'm considering removing it from our testing suite.