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Re:Serverless PhantomJS with IronWorker by heretohelp on Wednesday July 11, 2012 @03:31PM (#4230990)
casperjs is pretty unreliable, I wouldn't bother. Even for relatively trivial frontend testing we were using it for, it would crash ~50% of the time on Linux and Mac.
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Re:Serverless PhantomJS with IronWorker by baudehlo on Wednesday July 11, 2012 @06:03PM (#4231714)
PhantomJS 1.6 is massively unstable. Downgrade to 1.5. I'm really surprised this hasn't been fixed yet - there are bugs in their tracker related to it.
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Re:Serverless PhantomJS with IronWorker by heretohelp on Thursday July 12, 2012 @01:19PM (#4235533)
That appears to have fixed it.
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Re:Serverless PhantomJS with IronWorker by 0k1n on Friday July 13, 2012 @03:47AM (#4238679)
I'm happy to learn that (casperjs author here)
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Re:Serverless PhantomJS with IronWorker by zhodge on Wednesday July 11, 2012 @04:10PM (#4231190)
Really? I actually found it to be quite stable for a scrape project I had; it was rather trivial too though.

My only gripe is with the cryptic error messages I was receiving when executing JavaScript in a casper browser. But that could have just been my ignorance and unfamiliarity.

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Re:Serverless PhantomJS with IronWorker by jonpaul on Wednesday July 11, 2012 @04:38PM (#4231348)
That's not CasperJS that's unreliable. That's PhantomJS crashing. Which version of PhantomJS where you using?
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