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Ghost is a webkit client written in Python, it provides people making a Python based application to access web applications.

Ghost

Ghost is a webkit client coded in and written by jeanphix,

usage

from ghost import Ghost
ghost = Ghost()
page, extra_resources = ghost.open("http://jeanphi.fr")

Resources

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extracting address from web using ghost.py

I am learning to use python 2.7 and ghost.py to do some web scraping, I googled ghost.py a lot but I found very little documentation or help on use it, which gives my a bumpy ride when learning ghost.py. I wrote a little script below to try send a…
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Ghost.py - what does this stack trace mean?

How do I go about debugging this stack trace? Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 73, in execInThread File "C:\Program Files (x86)\PyScripter\Lib\rpyc.zip\rpyc\core\netref.py", line 196, in __call__ File "C:\Program Files…
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Screenshot not including images using python ghost.py

I am using ghost.py to take a screencapture of a webpage. But the script isn't capturing any of the images on the page. I've set download_images=True - but that doesn't seem to work. My code: from ghost import Ghost ghost = Ghost(wait_timeout=4,…
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Follow a link with Ghost.py

I'm trying to use Ghost.py to do some web scraping. I'm trying to follow a link but the Ghost doesn't seem to actually evaluate the javascript and follow the link. My problem is that i'm in an HTTPS session and cannot use redirection. I've also…
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Will ghost.py allow my users to scrape javascript injected images?

My site, http://whatgoeswiththis.co, has a scraper that takes images from the web and posts to our site. I can get server rendered images no problem, but for sites like…
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How can I get data from iframe with ghost.py?

I'm trying to scrape site with iframe so when I do ghost.show() I see my result normally so iframe is filled, but after when I do ghost.content it returns iframe empty, think it's done for security but how can I get this data? Thank you and sorry…
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Get information from a Ghost.py file

i am doing a project in which i need to get the information from webpages. i am using python and ghost for it. i saw this code in the documentation: links = gh.evaluate(""" var linksobj = document.querySelectorAll("a"); …
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Python importation error with Ghost.py

Ghost.py is correctly installed, though it can't find it's module
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