Author: Peter Boraros (based on Niklas Baumstark's webkit-server)

A standalone version of the Webkit server included in capybara-webkit. It is rewritten by pborky with PySide QT bindings and the following improvements over the original version from thoughtbot:

• Wait command to wait for the current page to load
• SetAttribute command to configure certain QWebkit settings
• SetHtml command to load custom HTML into the browser (e.g. to execute scripts on web pages scraped by a static scraper)
• SetViewportSize command to set the viewport size of the in-memory browser

If you are interested in web scraping using this server, have a look at dryscrape.

It is recomended to used distribution version of PySide, e.g. for Ubuntu you should install at least python-pyside.qtwebkit package. Then invoke pip install --process-dependency-links git+https://github.com/pborky/webkit-scraper.git to install the server.

If you have any problems with this software, don't hesitate to open an issue on Github or open a pull request.

This software is based on capybara-webkit. capybara-webkit is Copyright (c) 2011 thoughtbot, inc. It is free software, and may be redistributed under the terms specified in the LICENSE file.