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Getting Started with PhantomJS

By : Aries beltran
Book Image

Getting Started with PhantomJS

By: Aries beltran

Overview of this book

PhantomJS is a headless WebKit browser with JavaScript API that allows you to create new ways to automate web testing. PhantomJS is currently being used by a large number of users to help them integrate headless web testing into their development processes. It also gives you developers a new framework to create web-based applications, from simple web manipulation to performance measurement and monitoring.A step step-by by-step guide that will help you develop new tools for solving web and testing problems in an effective and quick way. The book will teach you how to use and maximize PhantomJS to develop new tools for web scrapping, web performance measurement and monitoring, and headless web testing. This book will help you understand PhantomJS’ scripting API capabilities and strengths.This book starts by looking at PhantomJS’ JavaScript API, features, and basic execution of scripts. Throughout the book, you will learn details to help you write scripts to manipulate web documents and fully create a web scrapping tool.Through its practical approach, this book strives to teach you by example, where each chapter focuses on the common and practical usage of PhantomJS, and how to extract meaningful information from the web and other services.By the end of the book, you will have acquired the skills to enable you to use PhantomJS for web testing, as well as learning the basics of Jasmine, and how it can be used with PhantomJS.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
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Index

Looking up for pizza delivery establishments

With these location-based services, not only can we get directions, but we can also look up establishments that are within our area. There are several services that are available for looking up restaurants, stores, and food delivery establishments; some of these include Yelp and Yahoo Local Search.

In our example, we will use the Yahoo Local Search API, which also has support for returning results in the JSON format. We will also follow the same technique as we did for getting directions. We must refer to the Yahoo Local Search Web Services API for the parameters and format of the URL request. You can check out the documentation in the following URL:

http://developer.yahoo.com/search/local/V3/localSearch.html

Based on the documentation, we need to pass the following parameters to successfully get a result:

Parameter

Description

Value

appid

This is the application ID. You can register to get your own at http://developer.yahoo.com/wsregapp...