Python and webkitdriver

[Paul]

I've used pywebkit, webkit and xvfb to test javascript in the recent past. However, I'd prefer to use webkitdriver in place of the webkit/xvfb combination. Does this seem reasonable and if so, any suggestions about how to proceed?

[Baran Ozgul]

Hi Paul,

Unfortunately the webkitdriver project is no longer active. 

You can try out other webdriver implementations.

http://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/GettingStarted

Alternatively, you can check out the webkit-based PhantomJS, I believe there is a WebDriver implementation work for this library currently in progress.

http://phantomjs.org/

- Baran

- Baran

On 28 August 2012 23:04, Paul <pgs...@gmail.com> wrote:

I've used pywebkit, webkit and xvfb to test javascript in the recent past. However, I'd prefer to use webkitdriver in place of the webkit/xvfb combination. Does this seem reasonable and if so, any suggestions about how to proceed?

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[Paul Sery]

Hello Baran,

Ah, that's too bad. It was a good idea and interesting project.

I tried a couple of JS-based web scraping systems this spring. One was ZombieJS and I think the other was PhantomJS. They were lightweight and gave me the ability to scrape web pages containing javascript. My goal was to deobfuscate javascript by instrumenting WebKit's JavaScript Core and I was able to do so. The problem was that they are written in js and so the embedded scripts were hidden by the javascript-based tools and browser. Perhaps I missed some simple way of doing it but I couldn't see it and gave up after a while.

I can deobfuscate using instrumented Firefox/spidermonkey and Chrome/jsc and Xvfb but would prefer to use something like webkitdriver. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Paul