Example Scripts for PhantomJS

PhantomJS comes with a lot of included examples.

Basic examples

• arguments.js shows the arguments passed to the script
• countdown.js prints a 10 second countdown
• echoToFile.js writes the command line arguments to a file
• fibo.js lists the first few numbers in the Fibonacci sequence
• hello.js displays the famous message
• module.js and universe.js demonstrate the use of module system
• outputEncoding.js displays a string in various encodings
• printenv.js displays the system’s environment variables
• scandir.js lists all files in a directory and its subdirectories
• sleepsort.js sorts integers and delays display depending on their values
• version.js prints out PhantomJS version number
• page_events.js prints out page events firing: useful to better grasp page.on* callbacks

Rendering/rasterization

• colorwheel.js creates a color wheel using HTML5 canvas
• rasterize.js rasterizes a web page to image or PDF
• render_multi_url.js renders multiple web pages to images

Page automation

• injectme.js injects itself into a web page context
• phantomwebintro.js uses jQuery to read .version element text from phantomjs.org
• unrandomize.js modifies a global object at page initialization
• waitfor.js waits until a test condition is true or a timeout occurs

Network

• detectsniff.js detects if a web page sniffs the user agent
• loadspeed.js computes the loading speed of a web site
• netlog.js dumps all network requests and responses
• netsniff.js captures network traffic in HAR format
• post.js sends an HTTP POST request to a test server
• postserver.js starts a web server and sends an HTTP POST request to it
• server.js starts a web server and sends an HTTP GET request to it
• serverkeepalive.js starts a web server which answers in plain text
• simpleserver.js starts a web server which answers in HTML

Testing

• run-jasmine.js runs Jasmine based tests
• run-qunit.js runs QUnit based tests

Browser

• features.js detects browser features using modernizr.js
• useragent.js changes the browser’s user agent property

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