[GTALUG] [browser bitching] Re: Programming languages (in comparison?) - -was Learn Swift for Apple/iOS. Learn ??? for Google/Android.

Myles Braithwaite 👾 me at mylesb.ca
Fri Dec 15 11:46:28 EST 2017


Steve Petrie, P.Eng. via talk wrote:
> Headless Chrome and the Puppeteer Library for Scraping and Testing the
> Web   Wednesday 29 November
> http://www.i-programmer.info/news/87/11344.html
> 
> With the advent of Single Page Applications, scraping pages for
> information as well as running automated user interaction tests has
> become much harder due to its highly dynamic nature. The solution?
> Headless Chrome and the Puppeteer library.
> ...
> There's just one caveat. Since CDP only works with Chromium, Chrome and
> other Blink-based browsers, so does Puppeteer. If you require more than
> that, then sticking to Selenium and its WebDriver API still remains the
> best option..
> ===
> 
> The Selenium WebDriver API might be a useful code base to be considered,
> in the design of the p'n'c "subversive incremental load" browser ...
> 
> My 2 cents worth.

Thought this was a interesting idea so I prototyped it in Jupyter:

<https://github.com/myles/notebooks/blob/master/Random/2017-12-15-better-web-browser/notebook.ipynb>

My 2 cents worth of programming :-).


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