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Ghost.py – Webkit-based scriptable web browser for Python

66 points by avinassh 11y ago

vojiz 11y ago
Very interesting project, keep it up.
reinhardt 11y ago
Based on "scriptable" and the short example I'd guess this is a headless browser ala PhantomJS, but then it says it requires PyQt/PySide so maybe not?
- giancarlostoro 11y ago
  It probably uses WebKit from PySide / PyQT see: https://pyside.github.io/docs/pyside/PySide/QtWebKit/index.html https://pyside.github.io/docs/pyside/PySide/QtWebKit/index.h... I think it's sort of an approach towards something like nw.js but I could be wrong, a bit of more description as to the purpose and use case would help evade the confusion since I'm only speculating..
xacrucesalus 11y ago
Can someone please explain what this does? I'm a little unclear.
- andrewchambers 11y ago
  It lets you interact with a version of webkit via python. Useful for writing programs to interact with websites that normally require a user to press buttons.
  - extc 11y ago
    How does this compare to mechanize?
- sebastianavina 11y ago
  it's basically a tool for mining a web site.
voltagex_ 11y ago
How is this different from https://github.com/niklasb/dryscrape https://github.com/niklasb/dryscrape?
zkanda 11y ago
Wow, this is nice, anyone know how to take screenshot with this? Also how is this compared to Splash[0]? [0] - http://splash.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ http://splash.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
- dufferzafar 11y ago
  There is a capture_to[0] method that can be used to save a screenshot. Btw, Thanks for telling me about Splash, I needed something that has support for Ad Block Plus rules. [0] - http://ghost-py.readthedocs.org/en/latest/#ghost.Ghost.capture_to http://ghost-py.readthedocs.org/en/latest/#ghost.Ghost.captu...
- gedrap 11y ago
  Shameless plug, a while ago I wrote a micro rest api (ghost.py + flask) to take screenshots and optionally upload them to S3: http://gedrap.github.io/lightshot/ http://gedrap.github.io/lightshot/ It still needs some extra work to be production ready though, please feel free to email me or create a github issue if you think it might useful for you :)

66 points by avinassh 11y ago

vojiz 11y ago

Very interesting project, keep it up.

Based on "scriptable" and the short example I'd guess this is a headless browser ala PhantomJS, but then it says it requires PyQt/PySide so maybe not?

giancarlostoro 11y ago
It probably uses WebKit from PySide / PyQT see: https://pyside.github.io/docs/pyside/PySide/QtWebKit/index.html https://pyside.github.io/docs/pyside/PySide/QtWebKit/index.h... I think it's sort of an approach towards something like nw.js but I could be wrong, a bit of more description as to the purpose and use case would help evade the confusion since I'm only speculating..

xacrucesalus 11y ago

Can someone please explain what this does? I'm a little unclear.

andrewchambers 11y ago
It lets you interact with a version of webkit via python. Useful for writing programs to interact with websites that normally require a user to press buttons.
- extc 11y ago
  How does this compare to mechanize?
sebastianavina 11y ago
it's basically a tool for mining a web site.

voltagex_ 11y ago

How is this different from https://github.com/niklasb/dryscrape https://github.com/niklasb/dryscrape?

zkanda 11y ago

Wow, this is nice, anyone know how to take screenshot with this? Also how is this compared to Splash[0]? [0] - http://splash.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ http://splash.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

dufferzafar 11y ago
There is a capture_to[0] method that can be used to save a screenshot. Btw, Thanks for telling me about Splash, I needed something that has support for Ad Block Plus rules. [0] - http://ghost-py.readthedocs.org/en/latest/#ghost.Ghost.capture_to http://ghost-py.readthedocs.org/en/latest/#ghost.Ghost.captu...
gedrap 11y ago
Shameless plug, a while ago I wrote a micro rest api (ghost.py + flask) to take screenshots and optionally upload them to S3: http://gedrap.github.io/lightshot/ http://gedrap.github.io/lightshot/ It still needs some extra work to be production ready though, please feel free to email me or create a github issue if you think it might useful for you :)