PhantomCore

Example of a Cross-Platform phantomjs based webscraper.

Scrapes the AskUbuntu homepage for all question-hyperlink elements.

Requirements:

• Supported Windows or Linux environment (AMD64)
  • Tested on Windows 10 and Ubuntu 18.04
  • For x86, ARM, or other architectures you will need to adjust runtime identifiers and supply the appropriate PhantomJs executables. Your mileage may vary!
• .NET Core 2.2 SDK
• May require firewall rules to connect properly, especially on Windows.

Notes:

• Locked to Selenium.WebDriver 3.13.0 since it is the latest version with PhantomJs support and .NET Standard support for use in .NET Core
• PhantomJs 2.1.1 binaries from phantomjs.org are already included in source control for Linux and Windows (64-bit)

Troubleshooting:

• "Permission Denied" exceptions on Linux when trying to open/start the PhantomJs service/driver
  • Most likely due to the included binary not being executable
  • chmod +x phantomjs on the executable should fix this

Known Bugs:

• Debug/Diagnostic output suppression does not work on Linux (yet)

Authors

• Chris Sekira

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details