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  • App name: phantomjs
  • App description: Headless WebKit scriptable with a JavaScript API
  • App website: http://www.phantomjs.org/

Install the App

  1. Press Command+Space and type Terminal and press enter/return key.
  2. Run in Terminal app:
    ruby -e '$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)' < /dev/null 2> /dev/null
    and press enter/return key.
    If the screen prompts you to enter a password, please enter your Mac's user password to continue. When you type the password, it won't be displayed on screen, but the system would accept it. So just type your password and press ENTER/RETURN key. Then wait for the command to finish.
  3. Run:
    brew install phantomjs

Download PhantomJs as per your OS. I am using Mac and hence this blog post will follow Setting up PhantomJs with Selenium WebDriver. Download and extract the package. Or windows its an exe file and for Mac its just a zip package you will need to extract and SET the phantomjs in the PATH. For Linux users (Mac included), you can place the downloaded binary in usr/bin directory. While Windows users can place the executable in C:Windows. After doing that, you should be able to open a command prompt or terminal and type phantomjs -help and see a screen like this. Feb 26, 2016 Phantomjs on Mac can be installed using Brew or node npm. It can also be downloaded from phantomjs site. We’ll use npm to install phantomjs in this tutorial. Here are the steps to install phantomjs on Mac command line. First install node and npm on Mac if not already installed. Get info about phantomjs package.

Done! You can now use phantomjs.

Similar Software for Mac

PhantomJS is a headless WebKit scriptable with a JavaScript API multiplatform, available on major operating systems as: Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and other Unices. It has fast and native support for various web standards: DOM handling, CSS selector, JSON, Canvas, and SVG.

PhantomJS by itself has many features as website testing, it allow you to run functional tests with frameworks such as Jasmine, QUnit, Mocha, Capybara, WebDriver, and many others. It allow you to create screen captures, website automatization, manipulation of the document and network monitoring etc.

In this article we'll learn how to manipulate PhantomJS from the command line in Windows and test basic features as screenshots, PDF generation etc.

Requirements

  • A PhantomJS distribution for Windows, you can get the latest version in the download area of the official website here.

Note: there's no installation process as you'll get .zip file with two folder, examples and bin (which contains phantomjs.exe).

How does PhantomJS works

Imagine a simple web browser like Google Chrome, ready? Now remove the Graphic User Interface (GUI) and you'll get a headless browser, that's basically PhantomJS. They're great for automating and testing web pages programmatically and PhantomJS is one of the best available headless browsers.

Start using PhantomJS from cmd.exe

After the extraction of the download .zip file you'll get 2 folders : examples and bin. In Bin is located the executable of PhantomJS.

First, open the windows terminal cmd.exe and navigate to the bin path of phantomJS executing the following command:

Note: you can simply create an environment variable pointing to the location of Phantomjs.exe and the execute it from wherever you are in the console.

Now that you're located in the path of PhantomJS you'll be able to execute commands easily with phantomjs.

To manipulate phantomjs you'll use mainly Javascript, to execute a phantomjs command it expects the path of a JS file as first parameter.

And that's all ! Now you only need to learn how to write suitable javascript for phantomJS.

For your first exercise, we'll take a screenshot of Our Code World website. Create a screenshot.js file in the same location of the phantomjs executable :

And include the following code in the screenshot.js file:

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Finally execute the following command in the command prompt :

Wait till is executed see the success message, and open the bin folder again.

Our Screenshot of the website has been created, awesome and really easy isn't ?.

Known windows issues

If the data is not transferred correctly, check if the network works as expected.

Specifically on Windows, the default proxy setting may cause a massive network latency. The workaround is to disable proxy completely, e.g. by launching PhantomJS with --proxy-type=none command-line argument.

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Conclusion

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Now that you know how does PhantomJS basically works, you'll be able to understand the documentation and discover all the awesome features that PhantomJS has to offer.

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As always, we encourage you to check out the documentation to learn how to generate even PDF's, remote debuggin etc. Have fun !