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JavaScript support? #8

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mgiagante opened this issue Jul 22, 2016 · 2 comments
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JavaScript support? #8

mgiagante opened this issue Jul 22, 2016 · 2 comments

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@mgiagante
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Hello all,
I just took a look at spidey and it sounds very handy to me. Still, since it relies on Mechanize, as far as I know, it doesn't support JavaScript execution. Are there any plans on supporting other drivers? If so, please count with my fork.
@joeyAghion
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I'm not actively working on spidey at the moment, but future work could certainly take it in this direction. Specifically, to:

  1. refactor the internals to support multiple crawling "providers," and
  2. implement a javascript-enabled provider

Pull requests welcome!

@mgiagante
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That's good to know. I will do my best to send one.
For now, just to leave a short insight, the only candidate project I know of that standardized a protocol for all of its drivers is Capybara.
One of these drivers is Poltergeist (which uses PhantomJs) and it's javascript-enabled.

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