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Unless you need to evaluate JavaScript or take screenshots of the rendered page is there any point at all in using a webdriver like that instead of building a p

Unless you need to evaluate JavaScript or take screenshots of the rendered page is there any point at all in using a webdriver like that instead of building a plain old scraper?

dmn001 12y ago
I agree, using Selenium seems like an unnecessary waste of time and cpu resources when replicating the GET/POST requests and parsing the html response using a simple Perl or Python script would have sufficed.
obstacle1 12y ago
Great point.