Selenium

Selenium Driver for Falcon

Wrapper for php-webdriver/webdriver (opens in a new tab).

Installation

composer require antheta/falcon-drivers

Usage

The SeleniumDriver has to be added to Falcon in order to use it:

$falcon = Falcon::getInstance();
 
// add SeleniumDriver 
$falcon->addDrivers([
    "selenium" => \Antheta\Selenium\SeleniumDriver::class
]);
 
// set selenium as the default driver
$falcon->useDriver("selenium");
 
// required options
$falcon->addOptions([
    "server_url" => "http://localhost:4444" // selenium server url
]);
 
// scrape using selenium
$falcon->run('...');
 
// add custom driver specific logic here
$element = $falcon->getDriverInstance()
            ->findElement(\Facebook\WebDriver\WebDriverBy::cssSelector('a.thumb-hover'))
            ->getText();
 
$falcon->getDriverInstance()->quit();
 
// results
$falcon->parse()->results();

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