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Author here (spikebrehm). Good question. Yep, you could accomplish something similar by booting up PhantomJS or node-chimera [0] and scraping yourself, but th
by frontendbeauty 14y ago
Author here (spikebrehm). Good question. Yep, you could accomplish something similar by booting up PhantomJS or node-chimera [0] and scraping yourself, but that seems hacky and hard to scale. Justin Tulloss of Rdio talked about this approach in his Airbnb Tech Talk [1], saying that the tricky part is determining when the page is actually done rendering, especially if you have a bunch of JavaScript that's performing DOM manipulation.
[0] https://github.com/deanmao/node-chimera https://github.com/deanmao/node-chimera
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TB-l2nF67iU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TB-l2nF67iU