is this project going to be high priority?

[randomgambit]

Hi harbourmaster,

I noticed that phantomJs is pretty much dead. Is this the opportunity to boost splashr? What are your plans?

Thanks

[hrbrmstr]

Well, "it works", so I'm not sure what the full intent of the question is. I've also recently released https://rud.is/b/2018/08/23/introducing-gepetto-a-splash-like-rest-api-to-headless-chrome/

Plus RSelenium recently got some 💙 from ropensci.

So, lots of options IMO.

[randomgambit]

I see, indeed. My issue is that I want so scrape some javascript chart (the ones where the value of the time series pops up when you hover on a dot with your mouse). The difficulty is that I have to do that offline. That is, I can render the javascript chart no problem, but then I must save the html page somewhere and the scraping will have to be done on that saved html copy. I was wondering if splashr is the right solution here. Sorry if this is not the right place to ask these usage questions.

[randomgambit]

like these kinds of charts... https://opensignal.com/reports/2016/11/state-of-lte or https://plot.ly/javascript/line-and-scatter/ (I actually do not care about these websites explicitely, this is just to explain the kind of charts I am interested in)
would gepetto be the right tool for that?

[randomgambit]

alternatively, do you know where can I learn more in order to parse SVG graphs with splashr or gepetto? I usually like your tools, they are fast and user-friendly

Thanks!

[randomgambit]

@hrbrmstr no ideas? :) where can I lean some good Javascript skills? thanks!