I want to fetch some information from a website using the phantomjs/casperjs libraries, as I'm looking for the HTML result after all javascripts on a site are run. I worked it out with the following code from this answer:
var page = require('webpage').create();
page.open('http://www.scorespro.com/basketball/', function (status) {
if (status !== 'success') {
console.log('Unable to access network');
} else {
var p = page.evaluate(function () {
return document.getElementsByTagName('html')[0].innerHTML
});
console.log(p);
}
phantom.exit();
});
And I also worked it out to get phantomjs/casperjs running on heroku by following these instructions, so when I now say heroku run phantomjs theScriptAbove.js on OS X terminal I get the HTML of the given basketball scores website as I was expecting.
But what I actually want is to get the html text from within a Mac desktop application, this is the reason why I was looking for a way to run the scripts on a web server like heroku. So, my question is:
Is there any way to get the HTML text (that my script prints as a result) remotely within my Objective-C desktop application?
Or asked in another way: how can I run and get the answer of my script remotely by using POST/GET?
p.s. I can handle with Rails applications, so if there's a way to do this using Rails - I just need the basic idea of what I have to do and how to get the phantomjs script to communicate with Rails. But I think there might be an even simpler solution ...
