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Really? It's right there on the main Github page, a 3 sentence description and 6 code examples.

PhasmaFelis 10y ago
I know, I read it. It's for "browsing the web without a standalone web browser," and I'm sure that if that was something I had needed, I would have said "Oh! How lovely!" But, since I didn't have that need already, I'm not clear why someone would want that. And I'd like to know! So could you give me a couple of practical use cases? "User stories," if you're into that?
- mathheaven 10y ago
  automation: go to this page, fill in the form, push submit, receive the result, process the result, send the processed result to another program for further analysis, finally emit and alert when attention is needed.
- aavotins 10y ago
  A dead simple example - scrape data from a webpage that doesn't have an API. You could down the wrong route of trying to parse the HTML and end up implementing a lot of logic manually OR you could use this wonderful library.
- simula67 10y ago
  Here are a couple of use cases : * Lets say you are Google and you want to test if the site is working correctly every day. You could code up a Python script that opens up www.google.com, searches for "facebook" and makes sure that the first result points to www.facebook.com. This script can be configured to run everyday and if someone accidentally pushes an update to the site that causes www.facebook.com to not show up as the top result, the script automatically reverts the site back to its original state. This means users continue to get best search results even if an engineer made a mistake with the ranking algorithm. * Lets say you are Ebay and you want to make sure that the prices for products on your site is competitive with those at Amazon. You can code up a Python script which searches for some products that customers regularly buy, like an iPhone, and extract the lowest offered price at Amazon. It can then compare them with the lowest offered price of an iPhone on Ebay. If the lowest offered price on Ebay is much larger than that at Amazon, you can offer a discount. This convinces the customer that they are getting competitive offers from Ebay and stops them from writing off Ebay when they want to shop online.

I know, I read it. It's for "browsing the web without a standalone web browser," and I'm sure that if that was something I had needed, I would have said "Oh! How lovely!" But, since I didn't have that need already, I'm not clear why someone would want that. And I'd like to know! So could you give me a couple of practical use cases? "User stories," if you're into that?

mathheaven 10y ago
automation: go to this page, fill in the form, push submit, receive the result, process the result, send the processed result to another program for further analysis, finally emit and alert when attention is needed.
aavotins 10y ago
A dead simple example - scrape data from a webpage that doesn't have an API. You could down the wrong route of trying to parse the HTML and end up implementing a lot of logic manually OR you could use this wonderful library.
simula67 10y ago
Here are a couple of use cases : * Lets say you are Google and you want to test if the site is working correctly every day. You could code up a Python script that opens up www.google.com, searches for "facebook" and makes sure that the first result points to www.facebook.com. This script can be configured to run everyday and if someone accidentally pushes an update to the site that causes www.facebook.com to not show up as the top result, the script automatically reverts the site back to its original state. This means users continue to get best search results even if an engineer made a mistake with the ranking algorithm. * Lets say you are Ebay and you want to make sure that the prices for products on your site is competitive with those at Amazon. You can code up a Python script which searches for some products that customers regularly buy, like an iPhone, and extract the lowest offered price at Amazon. It can then compare them with the lowest offered price of an iPhone on Ebay. If the lowest offered price on Ebay is much larger than that at Amazon, you can offer a discount. This convinces the customer that they are getting competitive offers from Ebay and stops them from writing off Ebay when they want to shop online.