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Jabba's headless webkit browser for scraping AJAX-powered webpages.

Jabba-Webkit

Jabba's headless webkit browser for scraping AJAX-powered webpages.

• Author: Laszlo Szathmary, 2012 ([email protected])
• Blog post: http://ubuntuincident.wordpress.com/2012/12/27/scraping-ajax-web-pages-part-4/
• GitHub: https://github.com/jabbalaci/Jabba-Webkit
• Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/15ir6x

Usage:

jabba_webkit.py <url> [<time>]

url: the page whose source you want to get

time: The application will quit after this given time (in seconds).

If the webpage is AJAX-powered and updates itself, you can tell this browser to wait X seconds. Then it fetches the generated HTML source.

You can also use it as a library:

>>> import jabba_webkit as jw
>>> html1 = jw.get_page(url1, time1)
>>> html2 = jw.get_page(url2)    # yes, you can call it several times