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Server Side Browser That Can Execute Javascript

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Is there any programming libraries available that will parse an HTML document, execute JavaScript and then allow me to navigate the DOM?  This needs to be performed server side, n

Solution 1:

Have you tried Bringing the Browser to the Server?

Solution 2:

in java: http://lobobrowser.org/cobra/java-html-parser.jsp this is a a Javascript-aware, CSS-aware HTML parser the most important feature in relation to your question: It is Javascript-aware. DOM modifications that occur during parsing will be reflected in the resulting DOM.

Solution 3:

Java has support for javascript with Rhino, also look at this page for server side javascript solutions: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server-side_JavaScript

Solution 4:

For Java, be sure to check out HtmlUnit and HttpUnit.

Solution 5:

PhantomJS does this and can be used with any server side language. See some integration modules below for NodeJS and PHP

NodeJS

https://npmjs.org/package/node-phantom

https://github.com/sgentle/phantomjs-node

PHP

https://github.com/diggin/php-PhantomjsRunner

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