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		ghkbrew on June 17, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Artoo, the client-side scraping companion What advantages does this have over Phantom.js[1] ? [1] http://phantomjs.org

jacomyal on June 18, 2014 [–]

Both are really different. Phantom.js is a headless browser while artoo is a tool to easily scrape data from website.

But combining both would be nice to make it possible to automatize scrapers that have been developed quickly directly in the browser with artoo.

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