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Node.js spawn and control Google Chrome
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var express = require('express'); | |
var cp = require('child_process'); | |
var app = express.createServer(); | |
var chrome_count = 0; | |
app.get('/', function(req, res){ | |
startChrome(chrome_count++,9222,function chromeStared(err,id,chrome){ | |
res.send('Chrome '+id+' Started\r\n'); | |
console.log('Simulating data parsing'); | |
setTimeout(function(){ | |
console.log('Shutdown chrome '+id); | |
chrome.kill('SIGHUP'); | |
},10000); | |
}); | |
}); | |
var port = 3000; | |
app.listen(port); | |
console.log('Server is listening on port ' + port); | |
function startChrome(id,port,callback){ | |
var terminal = cp.spawn('bash'); | |
var chrome = {}; | |
terminal.on('exit', function (code) { | |
//console.log('child process exited with code ' + code); | |
console.log('Starting chrome'); | |
chrome = cp.spawn('/Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome',[ | |
'--remote-debugging-port='+port, | |
'--user-data-dir=/Volumes/DATA/repos/scrapper/userdata', | |
'http://www.patrickhyundai.com/browse-new-hyundais.aspx' | |
]); | |
callback(null,id,chrome); | |
}); | |
setTimeout(function() { | |
console.log('Sending stdin to terminal'); | |
//terminal.stdin.write('echo "Hello $USER"'); | |
terminal.stdin.write('rm -rf /Volumes/DATA/repos/scrapper/userdata'+'\n'); | |
terminal.stdin.write('mkdir /Volumes/DATA/repos/scrapper/userdata'+'\n'); | |
terminal.stdin.write('touch "/Volumes/DATA/repos/scrapper/userdata/First Run"'+'\n'); | |
terminal.stdin.write('chmod 777 "/Volumes/DATA/repos/scrapper/userdata/First Run"'+'\n'); | |
terminal.stdin.end(); | |
}, 1000); | |
} |
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