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PhantomJS vs Selenium for scraping and automated testing

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December 3, 2015

Now that I have a bit of experience with both PhantomJS and Selenium (for Selenium, mostly in its scripting contexts) here are some things I can share. All of this assumes we can use Selenium's WebDriver and script it to be comparable to PhantomJS because PhantomJS is a out-of-the-browser Javascript module (like Node.js) without a web UI shell like Selenium (in the case of Selenium IDE). WebDriver can be controlled from many scripting languages (and even compiled languages) like Python and even JavaScript. Assume that anything about PhantomJS also applies to CasperJS which is a wrapper for...

Selenium IDE vs Selenium Webdriver vs CasperJS

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November 24, 2015

Or more specifically: Selenium IDE (Firefox plugin) vs Selenium Webdriver (Python and other languages) vs CasperJS (and PhantomJS or SlimerJS)

Selenium allows you, a programmer or non-programmer, to control a web browser and make it do things that you would otherwise do manually. With that ability, you can test your website over and over (and automatically from cron), similate users, or visit any number of web pages and read data (web scraping) on them and save to a file for processing.

If you go to the Selenium website you will...