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A programmable, embeddable web browser driver compatible with the Selenium WebDriver spec -- headless, WebKit-based, pure Java

22 mentions on Hacker News by 2 people: 4 stories, 18 comments · first 2015-01-16 · latest 2023-04-03

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  1. …patent holder (8,326,830) for an invention at SAP in the field of federated search - Creator of https://github.com/MachinePublishers/jBrowserDriver a programmable web browser - Bachelor of Science, Computer Science (2007), University of…
    comment by logn · 2023-04-03 · in Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2023)
  2. In some contexts it might be easier to use my project https://github.com/machinepublishers/jbrowserdriver which requires Java/JavaFX (no external browser bin). Chrome Headless is a godsend though.
    comment by logn · 2017-07-14 · in Selenium with Headless Chrome on Travis CI
  3. …in Java and uses Java's embedded WebKit. If anyone has feedback this is where I'm discussing it, https://github.com/MachinePublishers/jBrowserDriver/issues/2...
    comment by logn · 2017-04-13 · in PhantomJS: Stepping down as maintainer
  4. You can also do it with my project which is based only on Java, https://github.com/machinepublishers/jbrowserdriver
    comment by logn · 2016-06-05 · in Headless Chrome is coming soon
  5. You can use my project https://github.com/machinepublishers/jbrowserdriver which can be both headless or (what's the opposite of headless?) have a full GUI. It runs on Java using Java's built-in browser and will take a second to warm up…
    comment by logn · 2016-05-12 · in RoboBrowser: Your friendly neighborhood web scraper
  6. Being that you're already on a JVM, you might like my project https://github.com/machinepublishers/jbrowserdriver
    comment by logn · 2016-01-20 · in Scrapy Tips from the Pros
  7. …(Apache v2.0 licensed) programmable web browser into your crawlers, scrapers, test frameworks, etc: https://github.com/machinepublishers/jbrowserdriver
    comment by logn · 2016-01-03 · in Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2016)
  8. …programmable, headless, renders Javascript, and has comparable features to desktop browsers. See https://github.com/machinepublishers/jbrowserdriver ... It can render about a million complete webpages, Javascript and all (including…
    comment by logn · 2015-12-02 · in Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (December 2015)
  9. Also, if you want a headless browser that uses solely a JRE, my project is https://github.com/machinepublishers/jbrowserdriver
    comment by logn · 2015-10-15 · in Deprecating our AJAX crawling scheme
  10. …and consultation related to my open source project, a pure Java WebDriver (Selenium compatible) -- https://github.com/MachinePublishers/jBrowserDriver
    comment by logn · 2015-10-01 · in Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (October 2015)
  11. …Java-only system requirement, and its ajax handling might make it useful to some people currently: https://github.com/MachinePublishers/jBrowserDriver
    comment by logn · 2015-07-22 · in How to make Selenium tests reliable, scalable, and maintainable
  12. …GNU Classpath is more permissive in that its exception applies to modified versions too [3]. [1] https://github.com/MachinePublishers/jBrowserDriver/blob/mas... [2] https://github.com/mattermost/platform/blob/master/LICENSE.t... [3]…
    comment by logn · 2015-07-03 · in Mailpile Chooses AGPL v3
  13. …a variety of projects. I'd be willing to take clients who want enhancements added to the project: https://github.com/MachinePublishers/jBrowserDriver The license is such that it's open source, and proprietary use is allowed as long as it's…
    comment by logn · 2015-07-01 · in Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (July 2015)
  14. https://github.com/MachinePublishers/jBrowserDriver is a Selenium WebDriver that runs headless, is pure Java, and runs fine on a standard JVM. And most people use these web drivers because they need to parse AJAX sites, yet most web…
    comment by logn · 2015-04-25 · in Ask HN: Brag about open-source projects you're proud of
  15. …munging, browser hackery. Java, JS, Ruby, Linux. https://github.com/MachinePublishers/ScreenSlicer https://github.com/MachinePublishers/jBrowserDriver Contact: https://github.com/hollingsworthd
    comment by logn · 2015-04-01 · in Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (April 2015)
  16. …crawling, text munging, browser hackery. https://github.com/MachinePublishers/ScreenSlicer https://github.com/MachinePublishers/jBrowserDriver Contact: https://github.com/hollingsworthd
    comment by logn · 2015-03-01 · in Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (March 2015)
  17. …lookup classnames at runtime and resolve them dynamically. Anyhow, http://i.imgur.com/ovxVHW9.png https://github.com/MachinePublishers/jBrowserDriver
    comment by logn · 2015-02-08 · in Ask HN: Screenshot Saturday
  18. I'm currently writing a Java-based headless browser, https://github.com/MachinePublishers/jBrowserDriver Beware it's Affero GPL. It implements most of the Selenium WebDriver APIs. Currently it's a work in progress especially in regard to…
    comment by logn · 2015-01-16 · in Detecting PhantomJS-based visitors