Elinks? It has some javascript support that calls Mozilla's engine. It has a text interface. I've used lynx -dump in the past, but that doesn't have java script.
I've seen OpenOffice automated. A kluge would be to fire up selenium, print/save to PDF, compare PDFs. FWIW I have a postscript differ. Powerschool also has an API and there are tools that hook into it. For example: https://github.com/powerapi/powerapi-php On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 8:29 AM, David Rysdam <da...@rysdam.org> wrote: > David Rysdam <da...@rysdam.org> writes: > > I had this problem with htmlunit too. It wanted to fire up a browser > > GUI. No, bad tool! > > > > Probably there are no GUI-less, javascript-capable, scriptable tools out > > there. There's probably some way to cobble one together now that guile > > supports javascript, but like I said: time. > > It's also making me depressed how terrible the internet has > become. We've made a thing to run on computer that computers themselves > can't use. Why does an extremely simple, automatable task like "check if > posted grades have changed" require a human being to spend valuable time > poking buttons (or programming a very faithful simulation thereof)? > > We used to be a tool-making species. Then a tool-using species. Now > we're a tool-used species. >
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