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- Thread starter mattseh
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I have used PhantomJS with Ruby for simple automation tasks using the Poltergeist driver: https://github.com/jonleighton/poltergeist . Pretty good stuff.
I tried to use phantom.js with casper.js to bot craigslist, couldn't figure out a workaround for the HTTPS tunnel problem. Anybody that's successfully done it and want's to share let me know, I'll send you a 12 pack of your favorite beer 
Just woke up, time to contribute.
This script will setup a fresh ubuntu 12.10 64 bit box (vagrant for local stuff, yo) to be able to run splinter + phantomjs stuff:
save it to somewhere wget can get to it, then
This script will setup a fresh ubuntu 12.10 64 bit box (vagrant for local stuff, yo) to be able to run splinter + phantomjs stuff:
Code:
apt-get update; apt-get upgrade -y
apt-get install python-dev build-essential python-pip libxml2-dev libxslt-dev libfontconfig -y
pip install splinter selenium ipython
wget http://phantomjs.googlecode.com/files/phantomjs-1.8.2-linux-x86_64.tar.bz2
tar xvf phantomjs-1.8.2-linux-x86_64.tar.bz2
export PATH=$PATH:phantomjs-1.8.2-linux-x86_64/bin
Code:
wget -O http://domain.com/install.sh | bash