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Well with Chrome going headless there isn't a whole lot of place for PhantomJS anyway. Or is there? What is it still good for?
Maintaining systems already built on top of PhantomJS.
Phantomjs was generally great for that type of rendering
One of the guys working on P-JS just linked from a GH issue to his open letter... He isn't very happy with the owner blah blah blah and is going to fork the master branch to make phantom great again, I'll just put this here: "Will do as advised, as I really think PhantomJS is good project, it just needs good, devoted leader."
Chrome and Firefox gaining headless modes is the ultimate goal Phantom could've achieved. So I consider it a complete success. Kudos to all contributors.
Two alternatives: Headless Chrome with Puppeteer: https://github.com/GoogleChrome/puppeteer Firefox-based Slimer.js: https://github.com/laurentj/slimerjs (same API as Phantom which is useful if using a higher level library like http://casperjs.org/ )
I maintain a puppeteer-as-a-service repo here: https://github.com/joelgriffith/browserless . It’s pretty feature rich at this point, allowing you to specify concurrency, sessions timeouts, and comes with a robust IDE (which you can play with here: https://chrome.browserless.io ). I’m working on building out a serverless model, which is the holy grail of headless workflows, but it’s a bit more challenging to operation…
Shoot, I was just planning to use this for generating PDFs out of a URL on nodejs. Does anyone know of any other library / module out there that is good at this?
[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Headless_mode
[2]: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/04/headless-c...
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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.
Shoot, I was just planning to use this for generating PDFs out of a URL on nodejs. Does anyone know of any other library / module out there that is good at this?
Shoot, I was just planning to use this for generating PDFs out of a URL on nodejs. Does anyone know of any other library / module out there that is good at this?
chromium-browser --headless --disable-gpu --print-to-pdf=output_file_name.pdf file:///path/to/your/html