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PhantomJS: Archiving the project, suspending development
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Re: PhantomJS: Archiving the project, suspending development
#42I would think PhantomJS is still quite heavily used so having some kind of migrator to puppeteer would be useful. I’m sure people would pay $$$ for it.
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#43Some people are mentioning headless Chromium, so I wanna mention another tool I've used to replace some of phantomjs' functionality: jsdom [0]. It's much more lightweight than a real browser, and it doesn't require large extra binaries. I don't do any complex scrapping, but occasionally I want to pull down and aggregate a site's data. For most pages, it's as simple as making a request and passing the response into a…
Cheerio [0] is fantastic for this as well... [0]: https://www.npmjs.com/package/cheerio
Using Cheerio with TypeScript types to parse data from tables in downloaded HTML files. Great tool.
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#44Chrome and Firefox gaining headless modes is the ultimate goal Phantom could've achieved. So I consider it a complete success. Kudos to all contributors.
I really hope Microsoft offers a headless IE / Edge at some point. It would be amazing to be able to use all 3 major browsers like this. Heck, get Safari in there too (though I feel like it should be doable with WebKit already).
they have webdriver support. Is that enough? I'm not sure what's the difference between headless and webdriver (if any) https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2015/07/23/bringing-auto...
Re: PhantomJS: Archiving the project, suspending development
#45Drupal dropped PhantomJS too https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/2775653
Re: PhantomJS: Archiving the project, suspending development
#46Chrome and Firefox gaining headless modes is the ultimate goal Phantom could've achieved. So I consider it a complete success. Kudos to all contributors.
I really hope Microsoft offers a headless IE / Edge at some point. It would be amazing to be able to use all 3 major browsers like this. Heck, get Safari in there too (though I feel like it should be doable with WebKit already).
Huh? They have had the WebBrowser ActiveX control since IE3 I think. That works as headless as you get on Windows.
Re: PhantomJS: Archiving the project, suspending development
#47Somehow I am having issue to use both headless FireFox|Chrome. Unlike PhantomJS where all I had to do is to drop the binary and set the path, both FF and Chrome are not following same route thus I am happy to use PhantomJS for a while
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'd say Puppeteer is on-par with Phantom for ease of basic use. It has a richer, deeper API, of course, but at its core it's modern Javascript.
+1 on Puppeteer. Using it for something now. For small projects, the ability to have the JS you want to run within the context of the page itself live side by side with your browser instrumentation code feels magical. Head and shoulders nicer experience than in cases where half of your logic is second class code-as-a-string (e.g. trying to work directly with Gremlin Server from a non-JVM language by POSTing Groovy-as…
Thanks for the info.
Re: PhantomJS: Archiving the project, suspending development
#49Does anyone here know if there's a way to set SSL client certs with Headless Chrome? With PhantomJS I could use
--ssl-client-certificate-file and --ssl-client-key-fileRe: PhantomJS: Archiving the project, suspending development
#50Some people are mentioning headless Chromium, so I wanna mention another tool I've used to replace some of phantomjs' functionality: jsdom [0]. It's much more lightweight than a real browser, and it doesn't require large extra binaries. I don't do any complex scrapping, but occasionally I want to pull down and aggregate a site's data. For most pages, it's as simple as making a request and passing the response into a…
Cheerio [0] is fantastic for this as well... [0]: https://www.npmjs.com/package/cheerio
I've tried Cheerio as well, but I prefer JSDOM since it exposes the DOM APIs. What I'll normally do is interactively test things out in the browser's console, and then transfer em over to my script. Browser dev tools are just super amazing.