[PyQt] headless browsing via PyQT4

[Kovid Goyal]

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Kovid.

On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 07:27:04PM -0500, Jiangcheng Bao wrote:
> I am trying to achieve headless browsing via QWebView or QWebPage, but
> looks like the application would require a X server to connect to,
> even if I don't call the .show() method.
> 
> The sample code at
> http://webscraping.com/blog/Scraping-JavaScript-webpages-with-webkit/,
> that does not call .show() method, but would fail with the following
> error when running under terminal without DISPLAY set actually:
> 
> cannot connect to X server
> 
> I also tried to use module webkit.WebkitBrowser on
> http://webscraping.com/, by creating WebkitBrowser and set gui=False
> in the init method, but it also fails with the same error when there's
> no DISPLAY.
> 
> Anybody has some idea how do I actually achieve headless browsing, by
> either subclass QWebView, or webkit.WebkitBrowser?
> 
> Thanks
> Jiangcheng Bao
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