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Mechanize for Perl & Ruby is quite cool. However, it's not able to execute JavaScript. The only lib I found which does so with a reasonable subset of JS is Htt

by kunley 17y ago

Mechanize for Perl & Ruby is quite cool. However, it's not able to execute JavaScript. The only lib I found which does so with a reasonable subset of JS is HttpUnit, in Java. Though it has kind of ugly interface IMO, I use it with a success. Doing it from a Clojure REPL makes it quite handy tool for web scripting.

draegtun 17y ago
To use Javascript then try the CPAN module WWW::Selenium (http://search.cpan.org/dist/Test-WWW-Selenium/ http://search.cpan.org/dist/Test-WWW-Selenium/).
- kunley 17y ago
  Yeah I considered it but Selenium uses Firefox, does it? And I needed a self-contained script without such dependencies.
  - draegtun 17y ago
    No, Selenium works with all major browsers.
regularfry 17y ago
Also available to JRuby as Celerity, which rocks.
- kunley 17y ago
  Looks cool, thanks!
geoscripting 17y ago
I used Selenium or WebDriver for that. Not bad.