When I try to scrap this site with Phantomjs, by default, Phantomjs send the following headers to server:
"name":"User-Agent",
"value":"Mozilla/5.0 (Unknown; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/534.34 (KHTML, like Gecko) PhantomJS/1.9.1 Safari/534.34"}
And I get an status 405 "Not Allowed"
response.
I read in the Phantomjs API Reference that in order to imitate a request coming from some other browser, I should change my User-Agent value. On Wikipedia I found the value I should use for pretending to be Firefox under Ubuntu:
'name': 'User-Agent',
'value': 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux i686; rv:16.0) Gecko/20120815 Firefox/16.0'
In what part of Phantomjs should I put this properties? Where should I insert them - inside page.open, or inside page.evaluate, or at the top of it?
Actually, is on page.settings
. Do it before the open
.
Here is an example using it against that page you linked:
var page = require('webpage').create();
page.settings.userAgent = 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/28.0.1500.71 Safari/537.36';
page.open('http://www.oddsportal.com/baseball/usa/mlb/results/page/', function() {
window.setTimeout(function() {
var output = page.evaluate(function() {
return document.getElementById('tournamentTable')
.getElementsByClassName('deactivate')[0]
.getElementsByTagName('a')[0]
.textContent;
});
console.log(output);
}, 1000);
});
This example will scrape the match name in first row on the table. (Which, in this precise moment is "San Francisco Giants - Boston Red Sox
")
About your comment, actually you can use jquery under phantomjs! Check this example:
var page = require('webpage').create();
page.settings.userAgent = 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/28.0.1500.71 Safari/537.36';
page.open('http://www.oddsportal.com/baseball/usa/mlb/results/page/', function() {
window.setTimeout(function() {
page.includeJs("http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.1/jquery.min.js", function() {
var output = page.evaluate(function () {
return jQuery('#tournamentTable .deactivate:first a:first').text();
});
console.log(output);
});
}, 1000);
});
By the way, for waiting, instead of the window.setTimeout
I used on this examples, I recommend you to use waitfor.js instead.
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