Server side browser that can execute JavaScript

Question

Is there any programming libraries available that will parse an HTML document, execute JavaScript and then allow me to navigate the DOM?  This needs to be performed server s

Answer 1

There are now several projects that do a really good job of this:

• PhantomJS is a headless version of WebKit, and there are some helpful wrappers such as CasperJS.

• Zombie.js which is a wrapper over jsdom written in Javascript (Node.js).

You need to write JavaScript code to interact with both of these projects. I like Zombie.js better so far, since it is easier to set up, and you can use any Node.js/npm modules in your code.