PhantomMechanize

A Phantomjs addon for Ruby Mechanize

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'phantom_mechanize'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install phantom_mechanize

Usage

require 'phantom_mechanize'
agent = Mechanize.new
page = agent.phget 'http://www.google.com', :wait => 10000, :selector => '[name=q]'

# use some js to submit a form or interact with the dom:
page = agent.phget 'http://www.google.com', :selector => ['[name=q]', 'h3 a'], :js => "$('[name=q]').val('phantom_mechanize');$('form').submit()"

# return page after scrolling has completed
page = agent.phget 'http://www.somescrollingpage.com', :scroll => true

Options

• :selector - return once this selector is located (jquery)
• :wait - wait this many milliseconds (default 10,000)
• :scroll - scroll to the bottom until no more results show up (infinite scrolling)

Faq

What about cookies?

Cookies get sent to Phantomjs and reloaded into Mechanize when it returns.

What about user_agent?

Phantomjs will use the same user agent as Mechanize

What about http proxy?

Phantomjs will use the same http proxy as Mechanize

Contributing

1. Fork it ( https://github.com/monkeysuffrage/phantom_mechanize/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request