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Old 01-25-2016, 03:13 AM  
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Originally Posted by johnnyloadproductions View Post
I played around with selenium. If you don't need to emulate a browser (or use the browser on your computer) I would just use scrapers with PHP or Python.

If you just want to scrape with a browser use phantomjs, even better use casperjs which uses phantomjs.

Dependencies and increasing layers of abstraction!!!!

Correct, selenium is mainly if you need to test various browser behavior, for classic automation it can be either PHP Curl or phantomjs.
Selenium can be used for stuff like this: Check Browser Compatibility, Cross Platform Browser Test - Browsershots
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