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Pass URL to CasperJS via CLI

I'm using CasperJS to evaluate a webpage. What I would like to do is to let me pass an argument that is a URL, have CasperJS download and evaluate the page, and output to standard out the webpage so I can use it in a BaSH script. Here is my code so far for Casper:

var casper = require('casper').create();
var url = casper.cli.args;

casper.start(url, function() {
    this.evaluate(function() {
        return document;
    });
    this.echo(this.getHTML());
});
casper.run();

This is what I'm seeing once I run it:

@:~/spider/casperjs$ casperjs viewsource.js google.com
CasperError: No steps defined, aborting                                         
  /usr/local/src/casperjs/modules/casper.js:1510 in run
  ~/spider/casperjs/viewsource.js:10

Help please.

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MoneyBag Avatar asked Dec 08 '22 08:12

MoneyBag


1 Answers

If you want to name your argument :

command :

casperjs viewsource.js --url="http://YourUrl.com"

script :

var mainUrl = casper.cli.get("url");

casper.start(mainUrl)
.then(......)
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Fanch Avatar answered Dec 11 '22 11:12

Fanch