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Selenium seems very heavy-weight to me (granted I have only used selenium server). If you don't need to interpret javascript after a page loads then you might

by wc- 12y ago

Selenium seems very heavy-weight to me (granted I have only used selenium server). If you don't need to interpret javascript after a page loads then you might be able to use mechanize. In my experience I've gotten better performance and a higher ease of development with mechanize over selenium or other "full" headless browsers. Different tools for different jobs I suppose, I just tend to go for the smallest tool first. edit: replace mechanize with mechanicalsoup in the above paragraph, they are aiming to solve the same problems in the same way.

dkhar 12y ago
> Selenium seems very heavy-weight to me Fair point. Perhaps try Sulfur?
- mhluongo 12y ago
  I started googling, excited about discovering a new library, only to realize what you'd done there -_-
  - mherrmann 12y ago
    Try "Helium web automation" ;-)
- MrMeker 12y ago
  Selenium and Sulfur both have a certain smell to their code, just rotten. I prefer Oxygen.
hugs 12y ago
With Selenium 2, you aren't required to use the selenium-server anymore. You can drive browsers directly from the client lib.