Scrape Websites using PhantomJS and CasperJS (Udemy.com)

When adding the path to phantomjs executable file, it would have been nice to have known that each path needs to be separated with a semi colon. Also, the command touch doesn't work on my machine. Also, when installed the node package, most people probably wouldn't have node installed, luckily I did and know how to install node, but assuming that they'll be able to use npm is going to confuse a lot of users. The main issue I'm seeing is things aren't explained in as much detail as they need to be.

Great quality tutorial, can breeze through it and get a grasp of a load of fundamentals quickly, enough for me to understand and apply to my own use case easily. PhantomJS coupled with CasperJS makes scraping, or browser testing really easy to work with, it's easy to write very minimal, clean code, even for front end coders like me, or even non-coders by using the jQuery API. Now, writing powerful server side code is precisely as easy as writing any other jQuery. Awesome tech, awesome tutorial. Money well spent to rapidly skill up and progress my app project in hours. Thanks! I also quite like the payment structure of Udemy, pay-per-course and access them forever. Ideal for those who may only be able to commit less time to learning, where a higher fixed monthly cost maybe more expensive - unless you know you can get through several courses per month, even then, I would be surprised to find higher quality, or better value courses elsewhere.

Great course, a little on the fast side when I'm trying to type the code instead of just copying or following along with the code files with the course, and there afterwards transitioning between pages like from IDE to the browser etc. Im sure there is a slow down speed button but a decrease in the speed of audio can be a little disturbing. Awesome course will purchase others in the future.

Informative. Moves very fast in some parts, doesn't spend a great deal of time explaining some details. I was actually looking for more general phantom and casper tutorials (for headless web testing), but I still got a fair amount of info from this.

Le cours est assez complet et très formateur pour les débutants. Par contre: il est assez énervant de voir que les fichiers js fournis, ne correspondent pas toujours à ceux de la vidéo (du coup si l'on veut comparer le code que l'on a noté en suivant la vidéo et celui du formateur ca n'est pas toujours possible). Il manque à mon avis un tuto d'un site sécurisé en https. Globalement, la formation est bonne. Le formateur explique ses actions (même si on aurait aimé un peu plus). Le niveau augmente au fur et à mesure. Je recommande pour les débutants.

Great visuals – very good at assisting learning. My only feedback for Patrick is that, rather than copying the files and making modifications, you actually re-write the files in every lesson, with prompts for students to follow along. I feel this practice of repeating the crucial steps is more important than simply copying and knowing which components to change. Aside from this, I really enjoyed the course – thank you! @jake_quade

Somebody below commented that the presenter is not bringing anything outside of the documentation for the framework. Well that might be true however the presenter will save you TONS of time because he summarizes that documentation. As a newcomer to CasperJS I had no idea where to start and what to do. I bought this course because I wanted somebody to walk me through the basics and then show me more advanced things. Step by step. Now I can easily refer to the documentation if I need something in addition to these lectures. The tutor's explanations are extremely on point, super summarized yet very easy to follow and understand. I thank you, sir.

This course was lackluster. Some of the source code posted alongside the videos do not work. Additionally, the instructor selected extremely dull use cases to explore, making the course boring. He didn't stray too much from the basic functionality shown in the docs, so I recommend anyone considering buying the course to checkout the docs instead. This course has potential to be interesting, I hope that some more effort is put into it. Cheers

In terms of quality of videos and explanations is great but I missed a tutorial on how to install Python given that it is a prerrequisite for Casperjs and also a heads up for those of us who know plain old javascript but are not familiar with jquery.

This course is a great quick start to front-end testing and website scraping. Good instructions and pace. I skipped through lots of the JS stuff I already knew to get to the meat and potatoes, but this is excellent for a beginner.