Phantom-crowbar

Extract the raw SVG (and styles) from a webpage, from the command line!

Motivated by the desire to use d3 to make figures automatically.

Built on top of the wonderful, and more versatile, svg-crowbar.

I'm testing it on hedonometer.org, and remaining issues are converting to a PDF correctly. But this is likely a result of haphazard use of CSS styles in the page design.

Dependencies

• phantomjs

brew install phantomjs

Usage

Clone this repository.

Run the phantom-crowbar.js with phantomjs, passing the webpage, the id of the svg element to grab, and the output filename. Here's the first line of test/run.sh:

phantomjs phantom-crowbar.js http://hedonometer.org timeseries test1.svg

Testing

Uses

• inkscape
• CairoSVG

brew install inkscape
pip install CairoSVG

Run tests with

cd test
. run.sh

Inkscape will throw a lot of warnings. As mentioned above, there are still plenty of kinks to work out.