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Re:I Don’t Need No Stinking API: Web Scraping For Fun and Pr... by bdcravens on Sunday December 09, 2012 @01:17AM (#4894015)
Headless: Xvfb on Linux. (Virtual Framebuffer, let's you run apps that require a GUI) You can use one of the many options that include Webkit (like phantom.js, the capybara-webkit gem, or Selenium if you want a real browser like Firefox to do the work)
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Re:I Don’t Need No Stinking API: Web Scraping For Fun and Pr... by iamjustlooking on Sunday December 09, 2012 @01:53AM (#4894083)
PhantomJS doesn't need Xvfb anymore it can run headless without this dependency.
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Re:I Don’t Need No Stinking API: Web Scraping For Fun and Pr... by catch23 on Sunday December 09, 2012 @07:47PM (#4896861)
well, it wasn't due to anything in phantomjs actually -- it was because qt introduced project lighthouse & their qt platform abstraction. project lighthouse was a fork that got integrated into qt 4.8 that phantomjs includes. (you can see the entire qt source tree if you git-clone phantomjs)
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