Audience
Developers seeking a tool to automate web page interactions, perform headless testing, capture screenshots, and monitor network performance
About PhantomJS
PhantomJS is a headless web browser scriptable with JavaScript, running on Windows, macOS, Linux, and FreeBSD. Utilizing QtWebKit as its back-end, it offers fast and native support for various web standards, including DOM handling, CSS selectors, JSON, Canvas, and SVG. This makes it an optimal solution for tasks such as page automation, screen capture, headless website testing, and network monitoring. For example, a simple script can load a webpage and capture it as an image.
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Starting Price:
Free
Free Version:
Free Version available.
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PhantomJS
Founded: 2010
United States
phantomjs.org
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