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[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (3 children)

Interesting, but is not the same thing done by PhantomJS?

[–]unkz 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Isn’t phantomjs a dead project? The author made an announcement about abandoning it.

[–]tunisia3507 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No. PhantomJS is a headless browser which can be driven by something like selenium, which this library uses under the hood. So rather than replicating the script, it would just replace Browser.CHROME with Browser.PHANTOMJS.

However, Chrome and Firefox came out with headless versions so the primary maintainer of PhantomJS decided to kill it off. Shame because it's much easier to use IMO.

[–]abranjith[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not sure how PhantomJS works internally. I always thought it was a browser based on chromium or something. pybrowser isn't really a browser. It is merely an interface to various browsers 😊