Intro
Contents
Spynner is a stateful programmatic web browser module for Python. It is based upon PyQT and WebKit. It supports Javascript, AJAX, and every other technology that !WebKit is able to handle (Flash, SVG, ...). Spynner takes advantage of JQuery. a powerful Javascript library that makes the interaction with pages and event simulation really easy.
Using Spynner you would able to simulate a web browser with no GUI (though a browsing window can be opened for debugging purposes), so it may be used to implement crawlers or acceptance testing tools.
See usage on: https://github.com/kiorky/spynner/tree/master/src/spynner/tests/spynner.rst Or below if the section is preset
Credits
Companies
Authors
- Mathieu Le Marec - Pasquet <kiorky@cryptelium.net>
- Arnau Sanchez <pyarnau@gmail.com>
Contributors
- Leo Lou <https://github.com/l4u>
Dependencies
- Python >=26
- PyQt > 443
- Libxml2 / Libxslt libraries and includes files for lxml
- autopy which in turns need xtst lib & headers on linux (aka Xtest)
Feedback
Open an Issue to report a bug or request a new feature. Other comments and suggestions can be directly emailed to the authors.
Install
Throught regular easy_install / buildout:
easy_install spynner
(In Windows, you may have to install autopy through its installer at https://pypi.python.org/pypi/autopy/)
The bleeding edge version is hosted on github:
git clone https://github.com/kiorky/spynner.git cd spynner python setup.py install
Running Spynner without X11
Spynner needs a X11 server to run. If you are running it in a server without X11. You must install the virtual Xvfb server. Debian users can use the small wrapper (xvfb-run). If you are not using Debian, you can download it here: http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-x@lists.debian.org/msg69632/x-run
xvfb-run python myscript_using_spynner.py
You can also use tightvnc, which is the solution of the actual maintainer [kiorky].