Hi guys.

Dealing with an issue -- waaaaaay off topic fr fed! (but thought I' post, see if anyone has thoughts..)

I'm dealing with a testing/scraping process of a target site. Collecting isbn data for college classes. The site has gone to using obfuscation/encryption/etc.. which requires implementing a browser/javascript soln to generate the actual content.

The 1st pass test uses headless browser/casperjs to simply get the target page. This solution works, but is abysmally slow. In fact I can manually insert the url into a browser and get the returned result faster!

I've seen some articles that imply it's doable to fire off/run a real browser ff/chrome from the cmd line with the targetd url ,which would then produce the required output. (But haven't seen any pointers/exmples on how to accomplish as of yet).

Any thoughts/comments/pointers??

Thanks..

ps/ I'll eventually post to SO (stackoverflow), and i've got some ongoing initial conversations on a few IRC channels. If you can think of other places I could check, I'm even thinking of finding a resource that might be able to "reverse" engineer the obfuscated content (for $$$) if I knew a good site/resource to approach.