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PhantomJS is a headless WebKit scriptable with JavaScript. It is used by hundreds of developers and dozens of organizations for web-related development workflow. | CasperJS is a browser navigation scripting & testing utility written in Javascript for PhantomJS or SlimerJS. | The aim of this project is to provide the scaffolding for using Headless Chrome during a serverless function invocation. Serverless Chrome takes care of building and bundling the Chrome binaries and making sure Chrome is running when your serverless function executes. In addition, this project also provides a few "example" handlers for common patterns (e.g. taking a screenshot of a page, printing to PDF, some scraping, etc.) |
Multiplatform, available on major operating systems: Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and other Unices;
Fast and native implementation of web standards: DOM, CSS, JavaScript, Canvas, and SVG. No emulation;
Pure headless (no X11) on Linux, ideal for continuous integration systems. Also runs on Amazon EC2, Heroku, and Iron.io;
Easy to install: Download, unpack, and start having fun in just 5 minutes | - | - |
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GitHub Stars 29.5K | GitHub Stars 7.2K | GitHub Stars 2.9K |
GitHub Forks 5.7K | GitHub Forks 972 | GitHub Forks 280 |
Stacks 1.7K | Stacks 76 | Stacks 7 |
Followers 430 | Followers 120 | Followers 25 |
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What are some alternatives to PhantomJS, CasperJS, Serverless Chrome?
Playwright
It is a Node library to automate the Chromium, WebKit and Firefox browsers with a single API. It enables cross-browser web automation that is ever-green, capable, reliable and fast.
Puppeteer
Puppeteer is a Node library which provides a high-level API to control headless Chrome over the DevTools Protocol. It can also be configured to use full (non-headless) Chrome.
HeadlessTesting
Headless Browser Cloud for Developers. Connect your Puppeteer and Playwright scripts to our Cloud. Automated Browser Testing with Puppeteer and Playwright in the Cloud.
jsdom
It is a pure-JavaScript implementation of many web standards, notably the WHATWG DOM and HTML Standards, for use with Node.js. In general, the goal of the project is to emulate enough of a subset of a web browser to be useful for testing and scraping real-world web applications.
Splash
It is a headless browser that executes JavaScript for people crawling websites. It is open source and fully integrated with Scrapy and Portia. You can also use its API to integrate with any project that needs to render JavaScript pages.
Chromeless
Chrome automation made simple. Runs locally or headless on AWS Lambda.
SlimerJS
It allows you to manipulate a web page with an external Javascript script: opening a webpage, clicking on links, modifying the content... It is useful to do functional tests, page automation, network monitoring, screen capture etc.
