Ghost.py – Webkit-based scriptable web browser for Python

by avinassh • 11 years ago

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vojiz• 11 years ago

Very interesting project, keep it up.

reinhardt• 11 years ago

Based on "scriptable" and the short example I'd guess this is a headless browser ala PhantomJS, but then it says it requires PyQt/PySide so maybe not?

giancarlostoro• 11 years ago

It probably uses WebKit from PySide / PyQT see:

https://pyside.github.io/docs/pyside/PySide/QtWebKit/index.h...

I think it's sort of an approach towards something like nw.js but I could be wrong, a bit of more description as to the purpose and use case would help evade the confusion since I'm only speculating..

xacrucesalus• 11 years ago

Can someone please explain what this does? I'm a little unclear.

andrewchambers• 11 years ago

It lets you interact with a version of webkit via python. Useful for writing programs to interact with websites that normally require a user to press buttons.

extc• 11 years ago

How does this compare to mechanize?

sebastianavina• 11 years ago

it's basically a tool for mining a web site.

voltagex_• 11 years ago

How is this different from https://github.com/niklasb/dryscrape?

zkanda• 11 years ago

Wow, this is nice, anyone know how to take screenshot with this? Also how is this compared to Splash[0]?

[0] http://splash.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

dufferzafar• 11 years ago

There is a capture_to[0] method that can be used to save a screenshot.

Btw, Thanks for telling me about Splash, I needed something that has support for Ad Block Plus rules.

[0] http://ghost-py.readthedocs.org/en/latest/#ghost.Ghost.captu...

gedrap• 11 years ago

Shameless plug, a while ago I wrote a micro rest api (ghost.py + flask) to take screenshots and optionally upload them to S3: http://gedrap.github.io/lightshot/

It still needs some extra work to be production ready though, please feel free to email me or create a github issue if you think it might useful for you :)

Ghost.py – Webkit-based scriptable web browser for Python

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