from automation import TaskManager, CommandSequence # The list of sites that we wish to crawl NUM_BROWSERS = 3 sites = ['http://www.example.com', 'http://www.princeton.edu', 'http://citp.princeton.edu/'] # Loads the manager preference and 3 copies of the default browser dictionaries manager_params, browser_params = TaskManager.load_default_params(NUM_BROWSERS) # Update browser configuration (use this for per-browser settings) for i in xrange(NUM_BROWSERS): browser_params[i]['http_instrument'] = True # Record HTTP Requests and Responses browser_params[i]['disable_flash'] = False #Enable flash for all three browsers browser_params[0]['headless'] = True #Launch only browser 0 headless # Update TaskManager configuration (use this for crawl-wide settings) manager_params['data_directory'] = '~/Desktop/' manager_params['log_directory'] = '~/Desktop/' # Instantiates the measurement platform # Commands time out by default after 60 seconds manager = TaskManager.TaskManager(manager_params, browser_params) # Visits the sites with all browsers simultaneously for site in sites: command_sequence = CommandSequence.CommandSequence(site) # Start by visiting the page command_sequence.get(sleep=0, timeout=60) # dump_profile_cookies/dump_flash_cookies closes the current tab. command_sequence.dump_profile_cookies(120) manager.execute_command_sequence(command_sequence, index='**') # ** = synchronized browsers # Shuts down the browsers and waits for the data to finish logging manager.close()