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Re:Phantompy - Headless WebKit engine for Python, like phant... by arikfr on Tuesday May 21, 2013 @10:28AM (#5743820)
Just to give another perspective: I'm not sure on which OS you had those issues, but I'm successfully using Ghost.py on Ubuntu and OS/X. On OS/X it was harder to install PyQT and sometimes there were weird issues, but on Ubuntu it all went smooth.

By now I've ran it on thousands of different websites with little issues. It's true that I'm "recycling" the processes after ~10 sites, but that's mainly because of memory leaks.

EDIT: and to clarify on Ubuntu installing either PyQT or PySide (Ghost.py now supports both) was as easy as apt-get install...

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Re:Phantompy - Headless WebKit engine for Python, like phant... by killahpriest on Tuesday May 21, 2013 @10:39AM (#5743897)
I tried (but failed to) get it to run at all on OS X. We were able to get it to run on Ubuntu, but thats where it crashed after every three to four scrapes.
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Re:Phantompy - Headless WebKit engine for Python, like phant... by arikfr on Tuesday May 21, 2013 @10:46AM (#5743953)
When was it?
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Re:Phantompy - Headless WebKit engine for Python, like phant... by killahpriest on Tuesday May 21, 2013 @11:29AM (#5744309)
About three weeks ago.
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