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lancefisher on April 23, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Web scraping: Reliably and efficiently pull data f...

I've found jsdom to break for quite a bit of real-world crap HTML. Next time, I'm going to try driving phantom.js with node using https://github.com/sgentle/phantomjs-node

I've had pretty good luck with phantom.js, but it is somewhat difficult to debug.

chrisohara on April 23, 2012 [–]

FYI, JSDOM isn't the default parser in node.io. It uses a faster and more forgiving parser if you can survive with a subset of jQuery functionality (https://github.com/chriso/node.io/wiki/API---CSS-Selectors-a...)

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