jamezpolley / example_ruby_chrome_headless_scraper

Example scraper showing how to use Chrome headless from a ruby scraper

README.md

This is a simple scraper showing you how to use Chrome headless with Ruby. Here's what it does:

  1. Visits the morph.io home page
  2. Because the headless browser is a small window it now has to click the button to open the navigation menu so we can see the search box
  3. It enters a search for "planningalerts" into the search box and clicks the submit button
  4. After waiting for the results to appear (see the important gotcha in the code comments!) it outputs the full names of all the scrapers on the search results page

Any questions? Hit up the help forum.

Contributors mlandauer jamezpolley

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Console output of last run

Injecting configuration and compiling... Injecting scraper and running... henare/planningalerts_scraperwiki_scrapers openaustralia/PlanningAlerts_vanity_stats planningalerts-scrapers/sorell openaustralia/planningalerts_coverage planningalerts-scrapers/nsw_planning_major_projects planningalerts-scrapers/northern_territory planningalerts-scrapers/townsville planningalerts-scrapers/launceston planningalerts-scrapers/melbourne planningalerts-scrapers/victorian_liquor

Statistics

Average successful run time: less than 20 seconds

Total run time: about 8 hours

Total cpu time used: about 1 hour

Total disk space used: 35.9 KB

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