Javascript (and HTML rendering) engine without a GUI for automation?

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Published on 2010-04-26T19:26:49Z Indexed on 2010/04/27 23:53 UTC
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Are there any libraries or frameworks that provide the functionality of a browser, but do not need to actually render physically onto the screen?

I want to automate navigation on web pages (Mechanize does this, for example), but I want the full browser experience, including Javascript. Thus, I'd like to have a virtual browser of some sort, that I can use to "click on links" programmatically, have DOM elements and JS scripts render within it, and manipulate these elements.

Solution preferably in Python, but I can manage others.

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