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browserjet

0.1.0 • Public • Published

Browserjet - headless webkit with a node.js interface

Browserjet gives you access to headless webkit which is often useful for site scraping, testing, page screenshots, saving pdfs, and more.

Installing

To install the node.js module simply use

npm install browserjet

Currently supported is Linux 32/64

Usage

Browserjet provides and easy to use API. To load, manipulate, and save a page as a png you can use:

var browserjet = require('browserjet'),
    browser = browserjet.createBrowser();
    
browser
  .chain
  .get("http://nodejs.org/")
  .run(function() {
    document.body.style.backgroundColor = '#000066';
  })
  .save('nodejs.png')
  .end(function(err) {
    if(err) { throw err; }
  });

API

browser.get(url, callback)

Fetch the given page and pass ok to callback after completely loaded

browser.get("http://google.com/", function(err, ok) {
  if(err) { throw err; }
  console.log("Page loaded");
});

Also see examples/loadspeed.js for another example

browser.setHtml(html, callback)

Set the browsers content to the given HTML and run callback when completely loaded

browser.setHtml("<html><body>Hello World</body></html>");

browser.html(callback)

Return the browsers HTML

browser.run(js, callback)

Run the supplied javascript synchronously in the context of the currently loaded page and pass the last result to the callback

browser.run("document.getElementsByTagName('p').length", function(err, count) {
  console.log("There are "+count+" paragraphs in the currently loaded page");
});

browser.runAsync(js, callback)

An advanced command to run the given javascript asynchronously in the context of the currently loaded page, browserjet.callback is exposed on the page and returns its parameter to the callback.

browser.runAsync(function() {
  // This code runs in the context of the loaded page
  setTimeout(function() {
    browserjet.callback(document.title);
  }, 1000);
}, function(err, title) {
  console.log(title);
});

After 1s, the title of the currently loaded page is printed

Also see examples/qunit.js for another example of runAsync

browser.save(filename, callback)

Saves the current page, supported file extensions are image formats (png, gif, svg, tiff) and pdf

browser.save("page.pdf");
browser.save("/tmp/page.png");

Tests

The browserjet tests use expresso, which you can install with

npm install -g expresso

Then in the module directory you can just run

expresso

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npm i browserjet

Repository

github.com/briankircho/browserjet

Homepage

github.com/briankircho/browserjet#readme

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Version

0.1.0

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