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For scraping phantomjs or casperjs is the best way to go but you will have to use some JavaScript [1]. Both give you access to everything a WebKit browser user does with either a Node-style callback syntax (phantomjs) or a procedural/promises-style syntax (casperjs). Easy to setup, simple to use and fast enough for scraping but only WebKit (for now).

For testing on browsers other than WebKit (or vendor specific WebKit edge cases) use Selenium. Harder to setup, more complex, probably faster (still slow for testing) but not limited to WebKit.

[1] Sorry folks but some JavaScript is required to programmatically interacting with the web - also need some HTML and CSS.