PhantomMechanize

A Phantomjs addon for Ruby Mechanize

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'phantom_mechanize'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install phantom_mechanize

Usage

require 'phantom_mechanize'
agent = Mechanize.new
page = agent.phget 'http://www.google.com', :wait => 10000, :selector => '[name=q]'

# use some js to submit a form or interact with the dom:
page = agent.phget 'http://www.google.com', :selector => ['[name=q]', 'h3 a'], :js => "$('[name=q]').val('phantom_mechanize');$('form').submit()"

Options

  • :selector - return once this selector is located (jquery)
  • :wait - wait this many milliseconds (default 10,000)

Faq

What about cookies?

Cookies get sent to Phantomjs and reloaded into Mechanize when it returns.

What about user_agent?

Phantomjs will use the same user agent as Mechanize

What about http proxy?

Phantomjs will use the same http proxy as Mechanize

Contributing

  1. Fork it ( https://github.com/monkeysuffrage/phantom_mechanize/fork )
  2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
  3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
  4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
  5. Create a new Pull Request