Re:Portia, an open-source visual web scraper
by e1g on Tuesday April 01, 2014 @12:54PM
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>Is it also a webscraper that can pull data out of a page for me?
No, Phantom will only recreate the page as it would look like to a human user (i.e. after all javascript is parsed and executed). It will not help you parse or slice the page - you would have to do that part programatically with other dom-parsing tools.
No, Phantom will only recreate the page as it would look like to a human user (i.e. after all javascript is parsed and executed). It will not help you parse or slice the page - you would have to do that part programatically with other dom-parsing tools.