Comparison with PhantomJS

[dandv]

How does mechanize-js compare to PhantomJS?

[braco]

Examples & documentation are lacking!

[drahmel]

Mechanize-js is very lightweight -- it does the equivalent of CURL to pages and processes them which using JavaScript execution of code on the page. That means it can execute much faster than PhantomJS, but loses the ability to execute JavaScript that is included on the page.

[srveit]

Dan,

That is an important point about not being able to execute JavaScript
included on the page. Some modern front-end frameworks like AngularJS rely
on the browser to create the HTML (DOM) from templates loaded from the
server. If you want to scrape these types of sites you can use PhantomJS or
determine what API calls are made to the backend server and use those.
AngularJS generally works with JSON APIs so you may be able to access those
APIs directly and not need to "scrape" to get access to the data a webapp
presents.

On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 4:20 PM, Dan Rahmel notifications@github.com
wrote:

Mechanize-js is very lightweight -- it does the equivalent of CURL to
pages and processes them which using JavaScript execution of code on the
page. That means it can execute much faster than PhantomJS, but loses the
ability to execute JavaScript that is included on the page.

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