Installation
Installation of Firefox or Xulrunner
SlimerJS runs on any platform on which Firefox (Desktop version) is available. It needs XulRunner or Firefox. So install them first, for your prefered operating system.
- Download Firefox (version 18 or higher)
- or Download Xulrunner (version 18 or higher)
Installation of SlimerJs
Download the latest zip package of SlimerJS and extract files
into somewhere on your disk. You'll have a slimerjs/
directory with some files and
a script slimerjs
(and slimerjs.bat
for Windows).
During its launch, SlimerJS tries to discover itself the path of Firefox or XulRunner. In case it fails, you should create an environment variable containing the path of the Firefox/XulRunner binary. To create this environment variable from a command line:
On linux: | export SLIMERJSLAUNCHER=/usr/bin/firefox |
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on Windows | SET SLIMERJSLAUNCHER="c:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe |
On windows with cygwin | export SLIMERJSLAUNCHER="/cygdrive/c/program files/mozilla firefox/firefox.exe" |
On MacOS | export SLIMERJSLAUNCHER=/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox |
You can of course set this variable in your .bashrc, .profile or in the computer properties on Windows.
Launching SlimerJS
From a command line, call the slimerjs
script with the path of a javascript file.
/somewhere/slimerjs-1.2.3/slimerjs myscript.js
On Windows: c:\somewhere\slimerjs-1.2.3\slimerjs.bat myscript.js
The js script should contain your instructions to manipulate a web page... See the documentation.