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John
John

Reputation: 634

Selenium web-driver

I need to use selenium web-driver on a production server in order to get content generated with javascript, and parse it with nokogiri(because I already have something done with it).

On my local machine, when I try opening a page with selenium it will open the browser as well, it will behave the same on a VPS?

If it will behave the same on a VPS, do I need to close the browser?, because I have to run throw millions of pages every day.

My VPS: is using Capistrano, with ruby on rails.

Are there any better solutions to do this?

Thank you.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 354

Answers (2)

Mikhail Chuprynski
Mikhail Chuprynski

Reputation: 2493

Consider using Watir Web Driver + Headless gem which will not open any window.They both use Selenium.

Headless gem

Watir webdriver

Upvotes: 1

mikdiet
mikdiet

Reputation: 10038

We use poltergeist gem with capybara for similar task on server side. It uses headless webkit browser PhantomJS.

Upvotes: 2

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