Configure Mute Firefox with MozRepl

Question

I would like to run a search robot that can process the generated javascript html in an environment without an X server. I know that I can run Firefox headless in xvfb, and I know how to install MozRepl in Firefox and interact with it using WWW :: Mechanize when I have an actual browser and you can download and configure the module.

What I don’t know how to do is install MozRepl in Firefox in an environment where I don’t have an X server to simplify the installation of the module. Any help is appreciated.

Answer 1

There are many options for html + javascript without a title (thanks, first of all, for the google new toy Node.js game used in the Chrome browser) depending on the language you want to use, but, unfortunately, none of them which I know is not based on firefox - there was a crowbar , but it has not been updated since 2008.

The founding of such software on firefox has become less feasible now that firefox has begun integrating gecko more closely with the browser interface.

As for node.js, I know little about Perl suggestions, but here are some of the others:

• zombie (javascript)
• mink (PHP 5.3) (uses zombies as a back-end)

And then there are a few node options:

• phantomjs (javascript) (uses a webkit server, which may require X)
• htmlunit (java)
• akephalos (ruby) (uses back-end htmlunit)

I also believe that the python interface is for node.js (although if it implements a browser environment, I don’t know), and probably the work continues both in the perl space and also using node.