PhantomJS
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Jan 2, 2018
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PhantomJS is a headless WebKit scriptable with JavaScript. It is used by hundreds of developers and dozens of organizations for web-related development workflow.
PhantomJS is a tool in the Testing Frameworks category of a tech stack.
Key Features
Multiplatform, available on major operating systems: Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and other UnicesFast and native implementation of web standards: DOM, CSS, JavaScript, Canvas, and SVG. No emulationPure headless (no X11) on Linux, ideal for continuous integration systems. Also runs on Amazon EC2, Heroku, and Iron.ioEasy to install: Download, unpack, and start having fun in just 5 minutes
PhantomJS Pros & Cons
Pros of PhantomJS
- ✓Scriptable web browser
- ✓Depends on QT
- ✓No ECMAScript 6
Cons of PhantomJS
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PhantomJS Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to PhantomJS?
jsdom
It is a pure-JavaScript implementation of many web standards, notably the WHATWG DOM and HTML Standards, for use with Node.js. In general, the goal of the project is to emulate enough of a subset of a web browser to be useful for testing and scraping real-world web applications.
Puppeteer
Puppeteer is a Node library which provides a high-level API to control headless Chrome over the DevTools Protocol. It can also be configured to use full (non-headless) Chrome.
Playwright
It is a Node library to automate the Chromium, WebKit and Firefox browsers with a single API. It enables cross-browser web automation that is ever-green, capable, reliable and fast.
