Installing & launching SlimerJS on your plateform
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.
The Famous Web Browser. SlimerJS needs only its core engine to be executed. Minimum version: 18.0.
XulRunner is a software that contains only the core engine of Firefox and which can launch an application like SlimerJS, made with Mozilla technologies (XUL, XPCom...). Minimum version: 18.0.
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:
export SLIMERJSLAUNCHER=/usr/bin/firefox
SET SLIMERJSLAUNCHER="c:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe
export SLIMERJSLAUNCHER=/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox
export SLIMERJSLAUNCHER="/cygdrive/c/program files/mozilla firefox/firefox.exe"
You can of course set this variable in your .bashrc
,
.profile
or in the computer properties on Windows.
From a command line, call the slimerjs
script with the path of a javascript file.
/somewhere/slimerjs-1.2.3/slimerjs myscript.js
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.