How do I know which version of PhantomJS I have?
–version or –v Prints the version of PhantomJS running.
Is PhantomJS dead?
As of spring 2017, PhantomJS is not supported anymore and you should migrate your project to an alternative environment. Here is what you can do. In April 2017, Vitaly Slobodin announced, that he’s stepping down as a developer and maintainer of PhantomJS, the headless WebKit browser.
Is PhantomJS deprecated?
4 Answers. Selenium considers PhantomJS as deprecated, so you need to us either Chrome or Firefox in headless mode. Here are the steps to use Chrome in headless mode: Chrome(‘/your/path/to/chromedriver’) in the code below instead of webdriver.
What browser does PhantomJS use?
WebKit
PhantomJS is based on WebKit making it a similar browsing environment to Safari and Google Chrome (before Chrome’s fork of WebKit evolved into Blink). It is open-source software released under the BSD License.
How do I know if PhantomJS is installed on Windows?
For Windows Open a new command prompt and type phantomjs –v. It should give you the current version of PhantomJS that is running.
What is SlimerJS?
SlimerJS is a scriptable browser. It allows you to manipulate a web page with an external Javascript script: opening a webpage, clicking on links, modifying the content… It is useful to do functional tests, page automation, network monitoring, screen capture etc.
What replaced PhantomJS?
Selenium, Electron, Protractor, wkhtmltopdf, and SlimerJS are the most popular alternatives and competitors to PhantomJS.
Is PhantomJS faster than selenium?
Key Differences Between Selenium and PhantomJS In the case of PhantomJS, it is a scripted headless browser that is used for automating web page interaction. Being a headless browser, the interactions are much faster than the real browser. So the performance time is smoother in PhantomJS than in Selenium.
How do I start PhantomJS?
Go to the “bin” folder and check phantomjs.exe file. If you are using it on a Windows OS, then you can set the path variable under the environment variable for fast access through command prompt. The command to run the PhantomJS program: C:\> phantomjs [options] file.
How do I get PhantomJS path?
For Windows Set the PATH environment variable to the path of phantom.exe file. Open a new command prompt and type phantomjs –v. It should give you the current version of PhantomJS that is running.
What is CasperJS?
“CasperJS is an open source navigation scripting & testing utility written in Javascript for the PhantomJS WebKit headless browser and SlimerJS (Gecko). It eases the process of defining a full navigation scenario and provides useful high-level functions, methods & syntactic sugar for doing common tasks”
Is there a function to install PhantomJS on Mac?
NULL (the executable is written to a system directory). This function was designed primarily to help Windows users since it is cumbersome to modify the PATH variable. Mac OS X users may install PhantomJS via Homebrew.
How to download PhantomJS 2.1.1 for Windows?
Windows Download phantomjs-2.1.1-windows.zip(17.4 MB) and extract (unzip) the content. The executable phantomjs.exeis ready to use. Note: For this static build, the binary is self-contained with no external dependency. It will run on a fresh install of Windows Vista or later versions.
Is there a new version of PhantomJS for High Sierra?
After a lot of digging I found that on on High-Sierra old versions of phantomjs (<2.0) would not work. Also, the zip file via the phantomjs download page is a faulty one. If you need a new phantom, just go to this page and download phantomjs 2.1.1 (or later).
Where can I get the source code of PhantomJS?
Binary packages are available via pkg: $ sudo pkg install phantomjs Source Code To get the source code, check the official git repository: github.com/ariya/phantomjs. To compiled PhantomJS from source (not recommended, unless it is absolutely necessary), follow the build instructions.