Re: [Htmlunit-user] HtmlUnit and JUnit

[Oscar B. <oba...@um...>]

Ok, sounds good.  Thanks.

Oscar

Oscar Bastidas, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Associate
University of Minnesota


On Sun, Oct 27, 2019 at 8:59 AM Ronald Brill <rb...@rb...> wrote:

> Hi Oscar,
>
> HtmlUnit has its roots as tool for unit testing (and this is the reason
> for the name).
> But there is no restriction - you can use if for web scrapping also.
> As of today HtmlUnit is a headless browser (written in java) you can use
> from your java program.
> And from my knowledge HtmlUnit is today used in many web scrappers.
>
>         RBRi
>
> On Thu, 24 Oct 2019 14:52:12 -0500 Oscar Bastidas wrote:
> >
> >Hello,
> >
> >I am a novice in using this software and I have read that in using
> >HTMLUnit, there is some association with JUnit (unfortunately, I am not
> too
> >clear as to what JUnit does in the first place that ties it to HTMLUnit in
> >so many articles on HTMLUnit).
> >
> >Will HTMLUnit not work if I were to try to use its jar files alone for,
> >say, a web-scraping program run on a command-line without using JUnit?
> >Thanks.
> >
> >Oscar
> >
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