PhantomRubyBrowser
Wraps PhantomJS headless browser into Ruby code and provides basic DOM operations like click and get the content.
Under development
Example
Print DOM of javascript rendered page
browser = PhantomRubyBrowser.new("http://google.com/analytics")
puts browser.contentOpen page, click on a link and save DOM
browser = PhantomRubyBrowser.new("http://google.com/analytics")
puts browser.content_after_click('a.ga-button')Command line example
$ irb
1.9.3-p547 :002 > require 'phantom_ruby_browser'
=> true
1.9.3-p547 :003 > browser = PhantomRubyBrowser.new("http://google.com/analytics")
=> #<PhantomRubyBrowser:0x00000001daf0d8 @location="http://google.com/analytics", @phantomjs=Phantomjs>
1.9.3-p547 :006 > browser.content
=> "<html class=\"google-js\" lang=\"cs\"><head>\n\n ..."
How does it work
- PhantomJS binary is provided by https://github.com/colszowka/phantomjs-gem
- Ruby command is translated into javascript steps and passed to PhantomJS
- Output is returned
License
Released under MIT license