“它”之外的任何代码均不适用于量角器

Question

I used protractor as a scraping tool (like https://github.com/motemen/example-scrape-websites/blob/master/protractor/mufg.js ) but today my code has changed to be impossible to work.

I spent a long time to find the reason, and found that any code outside 'it' sentence doesn't work.

describe( 'Start Scraping', function () {

  // Use Protractor with the site which doesn't use AngularJS
  browser.ignoreSynchronization = true;

  /*
   * Fail because not inside of 'it' sentence
   */
  browser.get( 'http://www.google.com' );

Is this change inevitable? Do I have to give up Protractor-Scraping?

Biggest probrem is variable definition because the variable between multiple 'it' sentence is impossible.

Answer 1

You should be able to add browser.ignoreSynchronization = true; to a beforeEach block, but your browser related code will have to go in an it block. This is due to the way that protractor queues up browser requests.

I'd personally use nightmare or phantom for web scraping. You're going to be fighting protractor a lot to use it for anything but integration tests (I fight it even when I do integration testing ^^)

Answer 2

The reason why Protractor test doesn't work recently is bug of latest Chrome driver. You can run test with Firefox!