Phantompy - Headless WebKit engine for Python, like phantomjs

Re:Phantompy - Headless WebKit engine for Python, like phant... by fauigerzigerk on Tuesday May 21, 2013 @07:36AM (#5742973)

I wonder if Phantompy is truly headless so it works on servers without GUI libraries and without xvfb.

QtWebKit needs access to some GUI features out of the box, but phantomjs includes platform abstraction code that avoids the dependency on an X server. That's the feature that made me migrate my own C++ crawler code to phantomjs.

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Re:Phantompy - Headless WebKit engine for Python, like phant... by kanzure on Tuesday May 21, 2013 @12:56PM (#5744968)

Actually, you don't even need xvfb these days (and I have no idea why anyone is telling people that they do). You could use something like xserver-xorg-video-dummy. Of course, as you have pointed out, PhantomJS doesn't require an X server (as opposed to these other projects, wtf) so that it is "really really truly headless".

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