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Can PhantomJS be used an an alternative to BeautifulSoup?
I am trying to search on Etsy and visit all the links in term. In Python, I know how to do this (with BeautifulSoup) but today I want to see if I can do the same with PhantomJS. I'm not getting very far.
This script should search "hello kitty" on Etsy and return all the of products
<a class="listing-thumb" href=...></a> and print them in the console. Ideally I'd visit them later on and get the information I need. Right now it just freezes. Any ideas?
var page = require('webpage').create();
var url = 'http://www.etsy.com/search?q=hello%20kitty';
page.open(url, function(status){
// list all the a.href links in the hello kitty etsy page
var link = page.evaluate(function() {
return document.querySelectorAll('a.listing-thumb');
});
for(var i = 0; i < link.length; i++){ console.log(link[i].href); }
phantom.exit();
});
I have toyed with using CasperJS, which may be better designed for this.