Nathan Ridley’s answer to another similar question is the most complete one I’ve found so far. Anyway, if everything fails, you could use a Python or JS alternative, expose its funcionality as a webservice inside your server, and then your Java application could use the headless browser’s funcionality through the webservice. It would be a … Read more
I doubt you will find anything that is going to work as well as phantomjs. I would just treat the rendering as an async backend process and execute phantom in a subprocess from your main node.js process and call it a day. Rendering a web page is HARD, and since phantom is based on WebKit, … Read more
If anyone need in future for the same problem. Using puppeteer-extra I have tested the code on a server. On 2nd run there is google Captcha. You can solve it your self and restart the bot or use a Captcha solving service. I did run the code more than 10 times there is no ip … Read more
chrome –headless http://localhost:8080/banana/key –run-all-compositor-stages-before-draw –print-to-pdf=C:\\tmp\\tmp.pdf –virtual-time-budget=10000 Try this, virtual-time-budget is the parameter which can delay it.
What about phantomjs?
the output code you have is correct, but there is an issue with synchronicity. The output lines that you have are being executed before the page is done loading. You can tie into the onLoadFinished Callback to find out when that happens. See full code below. var page = new WebPage() var fs = require(‘fs’); … Read more
Iterating puppeteer async methods in for loop vs. Array.map()/Array.forEach() As all puppeteer methods are asynchronous it doesn’t matter how we iterate over them. I’ve made a comparison and a rating of the most commonly recommended and used options. For this purpose, I have created a React.Js example page with a lot of React buttons here … Read more
I found it. Simply pass the –window-size command line argument to Google Chrome, for example –window-size=1920,1080. In a Protractor configuration this would look like this: capabilities: { browserName: ‘chrome’, chromeOptions: { args: [‘headless’, ‘window-size=1920,1080’] } } The cool thing is that the windows size is not limited to the current display. It is truly headless, … Read more
I use webkit as a headless browser in Python via pyqt / pyside: http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/software/pyqt/download http://developer.qt.nokia.com/wiki/Category:LanguageBindings::PySide::Downloads I particularly like webkit because it is simple to setup. For Ubuntu you just use: sudo apt-get install python-qt4 Here is an example script: http://webscraping.com/blog/Scraping-JavaScript-webpages-with-webkit/
This works for me: start chrome –enable-logging –headless –disable-gpu –print-to-pdf=c:\misc\output.pdf https://www.google.com/ … but only with “start chrome” and “–enable-logging” and with a path (for the pdf) specified – and if the folder “misc” exists on the c-directory. Addition: … the path for the pdf – “c:\misc” above – can of course be replaced with any … Read more