[Baypiggies] headless javascript execution

Fri Jan 9 21:58:55 CET 2009

You actually need selenium-server-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar from the Grid release.

http://clearspace.openqa.org/thread/15077

It did the trick on my machine. Now on to serious scrapping :)

- Benjamin.

On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Benjamin Sergeant <bsergean at gmail.com>wrote:

>
>
> On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Nathan Ramella <nar at hush.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> Last night was my first meeting and I wanted to thank everyone involved
>> for organizing, as well as both of the speakers -- I learned new things and
>> have some things I need to research.
>>
>> There were a couple of things I wanted to throw out there since people
>> seem to be interested (I apologize if you've covered them before, but nobody
>> that I heard brought them up at the meeting in context)
>>
>> * jsbridge, which I've used in the past with success, I'm behind on its
>> latest versions but it does provide a fairly nifty interface ipython style,
>> allows you to tab complete and whatnot. It's easy_install-able. Good for
>> interactive mucking around.
>>
>> http://code.google.com/p/jsbridge/
>>
>> * Mozrepl, which isn't Python specific, it's basically a telnet socket
>> interface that you can get a javascript console out of -- might be useful if
>> you've got some specific task in mind that jsbridge doesn't cover. Also good
>> for interactive mucking around.
>>
>> http://wiki.github.com/bard/mozrepl/home
>>
>> * python-spidermonkey looks like it's back in development with checkins as
>> recently as October, if you need something that's completely separate from a
>> browser (unit tests, regression, build verification..)
>>
>> http://code.google.com/p/python-spidermonkey/
>>
>
>
> Lot of good links. Thanks.
>
> I was amazed by the selenium demo and just tried it. Doesn't quite work for
> me.
> I downloaded the firefox remote controll, which consist of some java code
> and some sdk for various langages.
> I started the java server. (first I add to create a symlink from
> /path/to/my/firefox/binary to /usr/bin/firefox-bin)
>
>  [bsergean at localhost selenium-server-1.0-beta-1]$ java -jar
> selenium-server.jar
> 12:38:21.688 INFO - Java: Sun Microsystems Inc. 1.6.0_0-b11
> 12:38:21.689 INFO - OS: Linux 2.6.27.5-desktop-2mnb amd64
> 12:38:21.691 INFO - v1.0-beta-1 [2201], with Core v1.0-beta-1 [1994]
> 12:38:21.773 INFO - Version Jetty/5.1.x
> 12:38:21.774 INFO - Started
> HttpContext[/selenium-server/driver,/selenium-server/driver]
> 12:38:21.775 INFO - Started HttpContext[/selenium-server,/selenium-server]
> 12:38:21.775 INFO - Started HttpContext[/,/]
> 12:38:21.780 INFO - Started SocketListener on 0.0.0.0:4444
> 12:38:21.781 INFO - Started org.mortbay.jetty.Server at 22998b08
>
> Then I try some python client code.
> [bsergean at localhost selenium-python-client-driver-1.0-beta-1]$ python
> test_google.py
> ... stuck ...
>
> On the server side:
> 12:38:47.234 INFO - Checking Resource aliases
> 12:38:47.236 INFO - Command request: getNewBrowserSession[*firefox,
> http://www.google.com/webhp/] on session null
> 12:38:47.236 INFO - creating new remote session
> 12:38:47.330 INFO - Allocated session a4d85344a2ac457994383bcf26407b1c for
> http://www.google.com/webhp/, launching...
> 12:38:47.380 INFO - Preparing Firefox profile...
>
>
> ....It takes a long time to prepare this firefox profile.
>
>
>
>
>> In relation to the coverage talk, I immediately thought of Snakefood,
>> which isn't about code coverage at all, but instead dependency graphing.
>>
>> http://furius.ca/snakefood/
>>
>
> I just give it a try and it looks pretty usefull, especially for building
> virtualenv or for packaging.
>
> $ sfood scene.py
> ...
> (('/home/bsergean/src/pyview', 'scene.py'), (None, None))
> (('/home/bsergean/src/pyview', 'scene.py'), ('/home/bsergean/src/pyview',
> 'log.py'))
> (('/home/bsergean/src/pyview', 'scene.py'), ('/home/bsergean/src/pyview',
> 'math_utils.py'))
> (('/home/bsergean/src/pyview', 'scene.py'), ('/home/bsergean/src/pyview',
> 'serialisation.py'))
> (('/home/bsergean/src/pyview', 'scene.py'), ('/home/bsergean/src/pyview',
> 'utils.py'))
> (('/home/bsergean/src/pyview', 'scene.py'), ('/usr/lib/python2.5',
> 'os.path'))
> (('/home/bsergean/src/pyview', 'scene.py'), ('/usr/lib/python2.5', 'sys'))
> (('/home/bsergean/src/pyview', 'scene.py'),
> ('/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages', 'psyco'))
> (('/home/bsergean/src/pyview', 'scene.py'), ('/usr/lib64/python2.5',
> 'copy.py'))
> (('/home/bsergean/src/pyview', 'scene.py'), ('/usr/lib64/python2.5',
> 'logging'))
> (('/home/bsergean/src/pyview', 'scene.py'), ('/usr/lib64/python2.5',
> 'optparse.py'))
> (('/home/bsergean/src/pyview', 'scene.py'), ('/usr/lib64/python2.5',
> 'os.py'))
> (('/home/bsergean/src/pyview', 'scene.py'), ('/usr/lib64/python2.5',
> 'pdb.py'))
> (('/home/bsergean/src/pyview', 'scene.py'), ('/usr/lib64/python2.5',
> 'platform.py'))
> (('/home/bsergean/src/pyview', 'scene.py'), ('/usr/lib64/python2.5',
> 'struct.py'))
> (('/home/bsergean/src/pyview', 'scene.py'), ('/usr/lib64/python2.5',
> 'urllib.py'))
> (('/home/bsergean/src/pyview', 'scene.py'),
> ('/usr/lib64/python2.5/lib-dynload', 'bz2.so'))
> (('/home/bsergean/src/pyview', 'scene.py'),
> ('/usr/lib64/python2.5/lib-dynload', 'time.so'))
> (('/home/bsergean/src/pyview', 'scene.py'),
> ('/usr/lib64/python2.5/lib-dynload', 'zlib.so'))
> (('/home/bsergean/src/pyview', 'scene.py'),
> ('/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages', 'pylzma.so'))
>
> $ sfood scene.py | sfood-copy /tmp/foobar
> $ ls /tmp/foobar/
> bz2.so   logging  math_utils.py  os.py   platform.py  pylzma.so
> serialisation.py  time.so    utils.py
> copy.py  log.py   optparse.py    pdb.py  psyco        scene.py
> struct.py         urllib.py  zlib.so
>
> Thanks for the link.
>
> For something a bit related, you can use pyreverse (integrated in pylint)
> to create an UML diagram out of your python code.
> http://www.logilab.org/blogentry/6883
>
> - Benjamin
>
>
>
>>
>> Thats it for now. If there's any OSX-using baypiggies out there I've got a
>> silly project that I'm getting ready to release involving
>> DictionaryServices.framework and could use some beta-testers. If you like
>> the Oxford English Dictionary and want access to it via Python, shoot me an
>> email and I'll send you a tarball to try out.
>>
>> -Nathan Ramella
>>
>>
>>
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