ferrum
Headless Chrome Ruby API (by rubycdp)
playwright-ruby-client
Playwright client for Ruby (by YusukeIwaki)
| ferrum | playwright-ruby-client | |
|---|---|---|
| 9 | 3 | |
| 1,652 | 267 | |
| 1.0% | - | |
| 8.4 | 8.7 | |
| 5 days ago | 6 days ago | |
| Ruby | Ruby | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
ferrum
Posts with mentions or reviews of ferrum.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-13.
- Generating PDFs in Rails using Grover
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Learning Ruby Basics
What are you using for automation? There's a relatively new gem that I heard good things of, vessel: https://github.com/rubycdp/vessel . It uses ferrum under the hood, a set of Ruby bindings to Chrome/Chromium (https://github.com/rubycdp/ferrum).
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Ruby web scraping gem that can handle JS?
I've used https://github.com/rubycdp/ferrum as driver for automated testing with capybara for which it works great. It recommends https://github.com/rubycdp/vessel as higher level abstraction for web scraping.
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Automating Jekyll card generation with ruby’s Ferrum gem
require "Rubygems" require "Ferrum" def generate_card(browser, card, png, options={}) browser.go_to("http://localhost:4000/cards/#{card}") # see all the options here https://github.com/rubycdp/ferrum#screenshots browser.screenshot(path: "./images/cards/#{png}", full: true, # final image size is window_size x scale scale: 2) end browser = Ferrum::Browser.new(window_size: [800, 418]) # Check what cards we need to make Dir.glob("_posts/*").each do |post| post = File.basename(post, ".md") png = post + ".png" card = post + ".html" generate_card(browser, card, png) unless File.exists?("./images/cards/#{png}") end
- Best library for scraping dynamic page in Sidekiq background job (Selenium/Puppeteer/Cypress/Playwright)
- Ferrum – high-level API to control Chrome in Ruby
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Migrating Selenium system tests to Cuprite
That is why we were happy to find out that a new ruby testing driver approach is being developed. It is called Cuprite, it runs the Ferrum library under the hood which, in turn, is an API that directly instruments the Chrome browser using the Chrome DevTools Protocol (CDP). About a week ago, we finally made a serious attempt to make our system test suite run on Cuprite, with especially two questions in our minds:
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Web scraping with rails
I've used Ferrum for a couple small scripts in the past before.
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My favorite Ruby gems
Ferrum
playwright-ruby-client
Posts with mentions or reviews of playwright-ruby-client.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-07.
- Best library for scraping dynamic page in Sidekiq background job (Selenium/Puppeteer/Cypress/Playwright)
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System testing for Rails application without Capybara, using Puppeteer
Playwright for Ruby: https://playwright-ruby-client.vercel.app/
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Using 🎭Playwright in Ruby/Rails
I actually created a Playwright client for Ruby. https://github.com/YusukeIwaki/playwright-ruby-client
What are some alternatives?
When comparing ferrum and playwright-ruby-client you can also consider the following projects:
Selenium WebDriver - A browser automation framework and ecosystem.
Ruby on Rails - Ruby on Rails
cuprite - Headless Chrome/Chromium driver for Capybara
playwright-python - Python version of the Playwright testing and automation library.
puppeteer - Headless Chrome Node.js API [Moved to: https://github.com/puppeteer/puppeteer]
capybara-playwright-driver - Playwright driver for Capybara
Capybara - Acceptance test framework for web applications
playwright-java - Java version of the Playwright testing and automation library
puffing-billy - A rewriting web proxy for testing interactions between your browser and external sites. Works with ruby + rspec.
Playwright - Playwright is a framework for Web Testing and Automation. It allows testing Chromium, Firefox and WebKit with a single API.
puphpeteer - A Puppeteer bridge for PHP, supporting the entire API.
puppeteer-ruby - A Ruby port of Puppeteer
ferrum vs Selenium WebDriver
playwright-ruby-client vs Ruby on Rails
ferrum vs cuprite
playwright-ruby-client vs playwright-python
ferrum vs puppeteer
playwright-ruby-client vs capybara-playwright-driver
ferrum vs Capybara
playwright-ruby-client vs playwright-java
ferrum vs puffing-billy
playwright-ruby-client vs Playwright
ferrum vs puphpeteer
playwright-ruby-client vs puppeteer-ruby