Homepage: http://nrabinowitz.github.com/pjscrape/

Overview

pjscrape is a framework for anyone who's ever wanted a command-line tool for web scraping using Javascript and jQuery. Built to run with PhantomJS, it allows you to scrape pages in a fully rendered, Javascript-enabled context from the command line, no browser required.

Dependencies

• PhantomJS (or PyPhantomJS) v.1.3+

Features

• Client-side, Javascript-based scraping environment with full access to jQuery functions
• Easy, flexible syntax for setting up one or more scrapers
• Recursive/crawl scraping
• Delay scrape until a "ready" condition occurs
• Load your own scripts on the page before scraping
• Modular architecture for logging and writing/formatting scraped items
• Client-side utilities for common tasks
• Growing set of unit tests

Please see http://nrabinowitz.github.com/pjscrape/ for usage, examples, and documentation.

Comments and questions welcomed at nick (at) nickrabinowitz (dot) com.