dryscrape Alternatives

dryscrape is described as 'A lightweight Python library that uses Webkit to enable easy scraping of dynamic, Javascript-heavy web pages' and is a Web Testing tool. There are six alternatives to dryscrape for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, Web-based and Self-Hosted apps. The best dryscrape alternative is Selenium, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like dryscrape are CasperJS, SlimerJS, DalekJS and Screenster.

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  1. Selenium icon

    Selenium

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    Selenium is a suite of tools specifically for testing web applications. It provides a playback tool for authoring functional tests across most modern web browsers, without the need to learn a test scripting language (Selenium IDE).

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    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • JavaScript
    • Java
    • Ruby
    • Python
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    Selenium is very slow, and does everything a web browser does (even if not necessary for scraping)

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    • Selenium is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to dryscrape.

    • Selenium is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to dryscrape.

    • Selenium is Free and Open Sourcedryscrape is also Free and Open Source
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    CasperJS

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    CasperJS is an open source navigation scripting & testing utility written in Javascript for the PhantomJS WebKit headless browser and SlimerJS (Gecko).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    SlimerJS

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    SlimerJS is a scriptable browser. It allows you to manipulate a web page with a Javascript script: opening a webpage, clicking on links, modifying the content... It is useful to do functional tests, page automaton, network monitoring, screen capture etc.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    DalekJS

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    DalekJS is an open source UI testing tool.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    Screenster

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    10x faster UI testing without a line of code. Screenster is a web-based platform that records a visual baseline of the application screens and then automatically detects changes.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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    • Screenster is the most popular Web-based, SaaS & Self-Hosted alternative to dryscrape.

    • Screenster is Freemium and Proprietarydryscrape is Free and Open Source
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    PhearJS

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    PhearJS renders dynamic webpages using PhantomJS: fetch a page, render it and return a pretty JSON object. PhearJS is offered as a hosted API as well as an open source solution that you can host yourself.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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