YAPC|10

WWW::HtmlUnit - Scrape and Test Javascript-Using Sites

By Brock Wilcox (‎awwaiid‎) from DC.pm
Date: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 10:45 AM
Duration: 20 minutes
Target audience: Any
Tags: javascript jquery testing web

The mightly WWW::Mechanize is fantastic... right up until you have to deal with some javascript. The HtmlUnit project has build on the Mozilla Rhino engine to create a browser agent that works even against complex javascript. It passes the JQuery test suite, as an example of it's powers.

We will present the Perl interface to the HtmlUnit library, setting you on the path to scraping and testing those javascript-dependent sites that you've being eyeing for so long.

• Barbie
• Michael Graham (‎magog‎)
• Jesse Vincent
• Christopher Madsen (‎cjm‎)
• Karsten Dahms
• Brock Wilcox (‎awwaiid‎)
• Dave Rolsky (‎autarch‎)
• Mike Fragassi (‎frag‎)
• Mark Stosberg
• Stevan Little (‎stevan‎)
• Brad Oaks
• Adam Foxson (‎Fhoxh‎)
• Kenneth Power
• michael shomsky
• John Anderson (‎genehack‎)
• Seth Viebrock
• Jonathan Swartz
• Hildo Biersma
• Timothy Appnel (‎tima‎)
• Stephen Scaffidi (‎Hercynium‎)
• Karen Hoofnagle
• Joakim Lagerqvist
• Duane Brown (‎duaneb‎)
• Chris Muench (‎blasto333‎)
• Sean McCune (‎pghcoder‎)
• Nick Patch (‎patch‎)
• Darian Patrick (‎dapatrick‎)
• mark stout
• Clinton Wolfe
• Erik Sturcke
• Jaldhar Vyas (‎jaldhar‎)
• Liam Echlin