Headless Browser and scraping - solutions [closed]

I\'m trying to put list of possible solutions for browser automatic tests suits and headless browser platforms capable of scraping.

BROWSER TESTING / SCRAPING:

Selenium - polyglot flagship in browser automation, bindings for Python, Ruby, JavaScript, C#, Haskell and more, IDE for Firefox (as an extension) for faster test deployment. Can act as a Server and has tons of features.

JAVASCRIPT

PhantomJS - JavaScript, headless testing with screen capture and automation, uses Webkit. As of version 1.8 Selenium\'s WebDriver API is implemented, so you can use any WebDriver binding and tests will be compatible with Selenium
SlimerJS - similar to PhantomJS, uses Gecko (Firefox) instead of WebKit
CasperJS - JavaScript, build on both PhantomJS and SlimerJS, has extra features
Ghost Driver - JavaScript implementation of the WebDriver Wire Protocol for PhantomJS.
new PhantomCSS - CSS regression testing. A CasperJS module for automating visual regression testing with PhantomJS and Resemble.js.
new WebdriverCSS - plugin for Webdriver.io for automating visual regression testing
new PhantomFlow - Describe and visualize user flows through tests. An experimental approach to Web user interface testing.
new trifleJS - ports the PhantomJS API to use the Internet Explorer engine.
new CasperJS IDE (commercial)

NODE.JS

Node-phantom - bridges the gap between PhantomJS and node.js
WebDriverJs - Selenium WebDriver bindings for node.js by Selenium Team
WD.js - node module for WebDriver/Selenium 2
yiewd - WD.js wrapper using latest Harmony generators! Get rid of the callback pyramid with yield
ZombieJs - Insanely fast, headless full-stack testing using node.js
NightwatchJs - Node JS based testing solution using Selenium Webdriver
Chimera - Chimera: can do everything what phantomJS does, but in a full JS environment
Dalek.js - Automated cross browser testing with JavaScript through Selenium Webdriver
Webdriver.io - better implementation of WebDriver bindings with predefined 50+ actions
Nightmare - Electron bridge with a high-level API.
jsdom - Tailored towards web scraping. A very lightweight DOM implemented in Node.js, it supports pages with javascript.

WEB SCRAPING / MINING

Scrapy - Python, mainly a scraper/miner - fast, well documented and, can be linked with Django Dynamic Scraper for nice mining deployments, or Scrapy Cloud for PaaS (server-less) deployment, works in terminal or an server stand-alone proces, can be used with Celery, built on top of Twisted
Snailer - node.js module, untested yet.
Node-Crawler - node.js module, untested yet.

ONLINE TOOLS

new Online HTTP client - Dedicated SO answer
dead CasperBox - Run CasperJS scripts online

RELATED LINKS & RESOURCES

Comparsion of Webscraping software
new Resemble.js : Image analysis and comparison

Questions:

Any pure Node.js solution or Nodejs to PhanthomJS/CasperJS module that actually works and is documented?

Answer: Chimera seems to go in that direction, checkout Chimera

Other solutions capable of easier JavaScript injection than Selenium?
Do you know any pure ruby solutions?

Answer: Checkout the list created by rjk with ruby based solutions

Do you know any related tech or solution?

Feel free to edit this question and add content as you wish! Thank you for your contributions!

回答1:

If Ruby is your thing, you may also try:

https://github.com/chriskite/anemone (dev stopped)
https://github.com/sparklemotion/mechanize
https://github.com/postmodern/spidr
https://github.com/stewartmckee/cobweb
http://watirwebdriver.com/ (Selenium)

also, Nokogiri gem can be used for scraping:

http://nokogiri.org/

there is a dedicated book about how to utilise nokogiri for scraping by packt publishing

回答2:

http://triflejs.org/ is like phantomjs but based on IE

回答3:

A kind of JS-based Selenium is Dalek.js. It not only aims for automated frontend-tests, you can also do screenshots with it. It has webdrivers for all important browsers. Unfortunately those webdrivers seem to be worth improving (just not to say \"buggy\" to Firefox).