PLEASE NOTE
0 - IT'S NOT DONE! The only commands implemented are the one used by the examples/google_cheese/ directory
1 - It's still experimental
2 - Not ready for Production
3 - Only 13 of the >90 WireProtocol Commands implemented
4 - I released it to get people interested in contributing. Not to provide a solution: it's not ready yet!
Ghost Driver is a pure JavaScript implementation of the WebDriver Wire Protocol for PhantomJS. This aims at providing a Remote WebDriver that uses PhantomJS as back-end.
There is plenty to do before this is usable, but if you can't wait to try PhantomJS's speed when it acts as a RemoteWebDriver Server, do the following:
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Start GhostDriver on a terminal:
$> phantomjs ghostdriver/main.js Ghost Driver running on port 8080 -
Build and Launch the first Java-based example (Maven required):
$> cd ghostdriver/examples/google_cheese/ $> ./mvnexec.sh ... [INFO] Building ghostdriver 1.0 [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] [INFO] >>> exec-maven-plugin:1.2.1:java (default-cli) @ google_cheese >>> [INFO] [INFO] <<< exec-maven-plugin:1.2.1:java (default-cli) @ google_cheese <<< [INFO] [INFO] --- exec-maven-plugin:1.2.1:java (default-cli) @ google_cheese --- *** USING GHOSTDRIVER *** Loading 'http://www.google.com'... Loaded. Current URL is: 'http://www.google.co.uk/' Finding an Element via [name='q']... Found. Sending keys 'Cheese!...' Sent. Submitting Element... Submitted. Page title is: Cheese! - Google Search Time elapsed (ms): 1531 [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] BUILD SUCCESS ...
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Enjoy
For a quick speed comparison with other WebDriver implementations, try passing the parameter firefox or chrome to the ./mvnexec.sh script.
- Speed
- Speed makes development faster
- Speed makes THE developer happier
- Speed makes leaves more time for beer, video-games, cycling or whatever you fancy
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- PhantomJS is not a "Real" Browser, just very very close to it
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You can contribute testing it and reporting bugs and issues, or submitting Pull Requests. Any help is more than welcome!!!
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