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Re:Web Scraping with Node.js and Chimera by mcantelon on Wednesday January 02, 2013 @07:53PM (#5000411)
Similar project: https://github.com/LearnBoost/tobi
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Re:Web Scraping with Node.js and Chimera by CoffeeDregs on Wednesday January 02, 2013 @08:26PM (#5000533)
Sorta. The joy of PhantomJS (and of Chimera) is that they use a real browser to run the JS/CSS/HTML/whatever. No simulated DOM; no simulated cookies; etc. Just a real [headless] WebKit browser with all of its quirks and tricks. You can even take screenshots of a real, rendered webpage (which is great for debugging).
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Re:Web Scraping with Node.js and Chimera by mcantelon on Wednesday January 02, 2013 @11:45PM (#5001064)
>You can even take screenshots of a real, rendered webpage (which is great for debugging).

That is pretty cool.

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