Control links2 by python

Question

Hi. Is there any way to control links browser from python? I need to make some bot, twill don't work on my page, Selenium need's X server. Maybe other way to do it?

Answer 1

I would try to use pexpect (on Unix-like systems; wexpect on Windows), just as I would for the purpose of controlling other text-based, interactive applications that don't offer an explicit API of their own.

Answer 2

Using X virtual framebuffer Xvfb you can run selenium/web browser without X:

Xvfb :1 -screen 0 1152x864x16
DISPLAY=1 ./firefox

and run the selenium tests from command line.