Thank Kovid. I tried that, it works. But it would not work if my terminal is under unix screen program, which might not be a big deal if I launch via cron.
I am also very interested in finding out if there's any way to configure it to run really headless, without relying on xvfb even. Thanks On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 10:13 PM, Kovid Goyal <ko...@kovidgoyal.net> wrote: > xvfb > > Kovid. > > On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 07:27:04PM -0500, Jiangcheng Bao wrote: >> I am trying to achieve headless browsing via QWebView or QWebPage, but >> looks like the application would require a X server to connect to, >> even if I don't call the .show() method. >> >> The sample code at >> http://webscraping.com/blog/Scraping-JavaScript-webpages-with-webkit/, >> that does not call .show() method, but would fail with the following >> error when running under terminal without DISPLAY set actually: >> >> cannot connect to X server >> >> I also tried to use module webkit.WebkitBrowser on >> http://webscraping.com/, by creating WebkitBrowser and set gui=False >> in the init method, but it also fails with the same error when there's >> no DISPLAY. >> >> Anybody has some idea how do I actually achieve headless browsing, by >> either subclass QWebView, or webkit.WebkitBrowser? >> >> Thanks >> Jiangcheng Bao >> _______________________________________________ >> PyQt mailing list PyQt@riverbankcomputing.com >> http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/mailman/listinfo/pyqt >> >> !DSPAM:3,512023f0281101428382049! >> >> > > -- > _____________________________________ > > Dr. Kovid Goyal > http://www.kovidgoyal.net > http://calibre-ebook.com > _____________________________________ > > _______________________________________________ > PyQt mailing list PyQt@riverbankcomputing.com > http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/mailman/listinfo/pyqt _______________________________________________ PyQt mailing list PyQt@riverbankcomputing.com http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/mailman/listinfo/pyqt
