crawler
Library for Rapid (Web) Crawler and Scraper Development (by crwlrsoft)
Symfony Panther
A browser testing and web crawling library for PHP and Symfony (by symfony)
| crawler | Symfony Panther | |
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| - | 15 | |
| 299 | 2,886 | |
| 0.7% | 0.3% | |
| 8.1 | 5.5 | |
| about 1 month ago | 7 days ago | |
| PHP | PHP | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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Any good resources on how to do “interaction” tests?
Use some library with WebDriver API (f.ex. Symfony Panther if you want to stick to PHP, or Playwright) to run tests against your WP backend
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Any pro-tips for writing automated tests with Selenium PHP?
Personal experience: - don’t use Behat unless you really needed a “story telling”, it has a intermediate layer Gherkin that you’ll need to code. You can write “Given/When/Then” steps but you’ll also need to write “php code” that will interpret this step. - using real browser be prepared for instability - any interaction with JavaScript can broken/delay execution - be prepared that this tests are call functional they are the most expensive test, so start small unit then integration and only then functional. - use https://github.com/symfony/panther or https://codeception.com/ you’ll have phpunit alike interface to run them. - you’ll need to reset state of your database each time to provide “isolation” and stability
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In your opinion, which existing PHP framework can become as popular as Symphony or Laravel?
For headless browser testing with symfony there is symfony panther (https://github.com/symfony/panther)
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Seeking recommendation for image generation in PHP
I did something similar with Symfony Panther combined with ChromeDriver.
- Best PHP library options for scraping sites with JavaScript - Symfony Panther, Chrome-PHP, Mink, etc.?
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How do you test your code ?
For tools, I use PHPUnit, Symfony's PHPUnit helper classes, and Panther (for frontend/headless-browser testing, mostly JS behavior)
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Getting a DomDocument query failing
If you are comfortable with using composer and third party libraries I would suggest checking out https://github.com/symfony/panther
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Browser automation question
I like this one recently https://github.com/symfony/panther
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10+The Best PHP Projects GitHub 2022
Panther
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Can I emulate a browser runtime environment in PHP?
What you're looking for is a package to control a "headless browser". The best one IMO is symfony/panther: https://github.com/symfony/panther
What are some alternatives?
When comparing crawler and Symfony Panther you can also consider the following projects:
DiDOM - Simple and fast HTML and XML parser
headless-chromium-php - Instrument headless chrome/chromium instances from PHP