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Phantomjs vs StormCrawler

A side-by-side look at Phantomjs and StormCrawler. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

Phantomjs

Phantomjs

Development

PhantomJS is an open-source headless web browser scriptable with JavaScript. It is used for automating web page interactions, testing, web scraping, and capturing website screenshots. PhantomJS implements web standards and runs the latest web technologies without requiring a visual browser.

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StormCrawler

StormCrawler

Development

StormCrawler is an open source web crawler designed to crawl large websites efficiently by scaling horizontally through Apache Storm. It is fault-tolerant and allows integration with other Storm components like machine learning pipelines.

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