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PhantomJS

PhantomJS is a headless WebKit scriptable with a JavaScript API. It has fast and native support for various web standards: DOM handling, CSS selectors, JSON, Canvas, and SVG.

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Features

PhantomJS usage

The PhantomJS JavaScript API can be used to open web pages, take screenshots, execute user actions, and run injected JavaScript in the page context. For example, the following code will open Wikipedia and, upon loading, will save a screenshot to a file and exit.

console.log('Loading a web page');
var page = require('webpage').create();
var url = 'http://en.wikipedia.org/';

page.open(url, function (status) {
  console.log('Page loaded');
  page.render('wikipedia.org.png');
  phantom.exit();
});

PhantomJS is created and maintained by Ariya Hidayat (Twitter: @ariyahidayat), with the help of many contributors. Follow the official Twitter stream @PhantomJS to get the frequent development updates.