Getting started with PhantomJS / Aries Beltran.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beltran, Aries.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Browsers (Computer programs).

Web site development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (140 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Other Title:

PhantomJS

Place of Publication:

Birmingham : Packt Publishing, 2013.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

beltran Aries: Aries Beltran is a software developer located in Manila, Philippines. He works as an architect and R&D developer for financial businesses using web and enterprise technologies. He is currently developing new tools to provide real-time insights. He is interested in playing around with cutting-edge HTML5 development and mobile visualization. When he isn't coding, he likes to take photos of his daughter, Tara, who is his favorite model.

Summary:

Harness the strength and capabilities of PhantomJS to interact with the web and perform website testing with a headless browser based on WebKit Writing scripts that can interact directly with web services and pages Interacting with social media websites using PhantomJS scripts Creating web-based test scripts and running them in a headless browser In Detail PhantomJS is a headless WebKit browser with JavaScript API that allows you to create new ways to automate web testing. PhantomJS is currently being used by a large number of users to help them integrate headless web testing into their development processes. It also gives you developers a new framework to create web-based applications, from simple web manipulation to performance measurement and monitoring. A step-by-step guide that will help you develop new tools for solving web and testing problems in an effective and quick way. The book will teach you how to use and maximize PhantomJS to develop new tools for web scrapping, web performance measurement and monitoring, and headless web testing. This book will help you understand PhantomJS’ scripting API capabilities and strengths. This book starts by looking at PhantomJS’ JavaScript API, features, and basic execution of scripts. Throughout the book, you will learn details to help you write scripts to manipulate web documents and fully create a web scrapping tool. Through its practical approach, this book strives to teach you by example, where each chapter focuses on the common and practical usage of PhantomJS, and how to extract meaningful information from the web and other services. By the end of the book, you will have acquired the skills to enable you to use PhantomJS for web testing, as well as learning the basics of Jasmine, and how it can be used with PhantomJS.

Contents:

Intro

Getting Started with PhantomJS

Table of Contents

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more

Why Subscribe?

Free Access for Packt account holders

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Getting Started

Downloading PhantomJS

Building PhantomJS from source

Working with PhantomJS

PhantomJS JavaScript API

The Module API

The WebPage API

The System API

The FileSystem API

The WebServer API

The phantom object

The command-line arguments

The script argument

The debug option

The cookie-file option

Writing PhantomJS scripts

Summary

2. Manipulating Page Content

Opening a web page

Playing with DOM elements

Selecting elements

Simulating mouse clicks

PhantomJS event triggering

DOM event triggering

Working with form fields

3. Handling Events and Callbacks

Listening to page events

Page load events

When a resource is requested

Receiving a page resource

Two stages of the resource received event

Knowing when the URL changes

Capturing alert messages

Answering prompt messages

Responding to confirm pop ups - OK or Cancel

Performing user events

Keyboard events

Mouse events

4. Capturing Errors

Handling PhantomJS errors

Capturing page script errors

Anticipating the page loading error

Exiting with error codes

5. Grabbing Pages

Undocumented supported image format

Screenshot dimensions

Saving web pages as PDFs

6. Accessing Location-based Services

Checking a location based on IP address.

Getting driving directions

Looking up for pizza delivery establishments

7. Working with Files

PhantomJS FileSystem API

Reading files

Checking for file existence

Opening the file

Closing the opened files

Writing files

Character encoding

8. Cookies

Reading cookies

Baking some cookies

Deleting cookies

Keeping cookies

9. External JavaScript

Modules

Using the object-oriented modules

Using third-party JavaScript libraries

10. Testing with PhantomJS

What is unit testing?

Unit testing with Jasmine

Downloading Jasmine

Test specs with Jasmine

The PhantomJS Jasmine runner

11. Maximizing PhantomJS

CasperJS

GhostDriver

Screenshots, web metrics, and more

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF (ebrary, viewed December 30, 2013).

ISBN:

9781782164234

1782164235

OCLC:

865565054