True, you can get pretty far doing that but it gets difficult when crucial bits of information are hidden inside script tags and the like. Not to mention managing cookies for ASP.NET pages amongst others is a pain in the butt. You can avoid all that hassle with a fully resolved DOM and automatic support for cookies which Phantom JS will give you.
-- Dave Kuhn Sent with Sparrow (http://www.sparrowmailapp.com/?sig) On Tuesday, October 9, 2012 at 12:25 AM, greelgorke wrote: > why so complicated? just find out the url of the ajax request and do it > yourself with whatever lib you want... > > Am Montag, 8. Oktober 2012 18:53:27 UTC+2 schrieb Chad Engler: > > This is probably the same person who asked this question on StackOverflow: > > > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12630891/scrape-data-generated-by-javascript-on-server-side-from-webpages-aspx > > > > Where I have already answered his question, he just didn’t like it: > > > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12630891/scrape-data-generated-by-javascript-on-server-side-from-webpages-aspx#comment17032399_12630891 > > > > -Chad > > > > From: nod...@googlegroups.com [mailto:nod...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of > > Dave Kuhn > > Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2012 11:46 PM > > To: nod...@googlegroups.com > > Subject: Re: [nodejs] Dynamic content scrape with Node.js > > > > Good suggestions so far, though i highly recommend you check out > > phantomjs.org (http://phantomjs.org). Phantom is a headless version of > > WebKit which is the rendering engine behind Chrome & Safari. It's the most > > comprehensive solution to handling AJAX content when scraping in my book > > since it's technically the same as interacting with a page loaded by your > > browser. > > > > > > > > -- > > Dave Kuhn > > Sent with Sparrow (http://www.sparrowmailapp.com/?sig) > > > > > > > > > > On Saturday, October 6, 2012 at 3:04 PM, rektide wrote: > > > Only just picked it up last week, but it worked well enough-- node.io > > > (http://node.io). It exposes a > > > > > > jQuery-esque interface for querying scraped pages. Extremely high level, > > > "just works" > > > > > > scraping module, in my book! > > > > > > > > > > > > It also has a fairly sizable task-processing system built in, which I > > > have not used. > > > > > > > > > > > > Good luck: > > > > > > https://github.com/chriso/node.io > > > > > > > > > > > > -rektide > > > > > > > > > > > > On Sat, Oct 06, 2012 at 01:34:03PM -0700, Narek Musakhanyan wrote: > > > > > > > Hey guys . I tried to scrape a data from a website using PHP cURL lib > > > > but > > > > > > > > I failed since cURl allows you to scrape only static content . But the > > > > > > > > content I want to scrape changes via javascript(AJAX) since cURL cant > > > > > > > > hanfle that I couldnt handle scraping via cURL . So I heard the this > > > > type > > > > > > > > of things can be done via node . Basically I need to make my node app > > > > > > > > handle this js wait for some time until AJAX is done and the pass it to > > > > > > > > php .So is it possible to do via node.js ? I dont know node and I have > > > > to > > > > > > > > start from scratch so I am here you to point out the right node > > > > framework > > > > > > > > to use to get the result I explained . > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > > > > > > Posting guidelines: > > > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > > > > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > > > > > Groups "nodejs" group. > > > > > > To post to this group, send email to nod...@googlegroups.com > > > > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > > > > nodejs+un...@googlegroups.com > > > > > > For more options, visit this group at > > > > > > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > > Posting guidelines: > > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "nodejs" group. > > To post to this group, send email to nod...@googlegroups.com > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > nodejs+un...@googlegroups.com > > For more options, visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
