replacement for lang/phantomjs [deprecated]

Steven Hartland killing at multiplay.co.uk
Wed May 22 11:57:02 UTC 2019


Pretty sure chrome has a headless mode now, perhaps you could use that.

On 22/05/2019 12:39, dangerwillrobinsondanger at gmail.com wrote:
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>> On May 22, 2019, at 19:33, Kurt Jaeger <pi at freebsd.org> wrote:
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>> Hi!
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>>> The port lang/phantomjs is marked as deprecated / expired 2019-05-15. Is
>>> there any alternative in the ports tree? I searched the net and found
>>> https://slimerjs.org but it is not in the ports tree. (I don't have a
>>> skill to port it and maintain it myself)
>>>
>>> One of my clients is using phantomjs thru some webapplication so I need
>>> to find some replacement.
>> I have a vague guess that selenium does something similar.
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>> https://docs.seleniumhq.org/
> Not really.
> phantomjs is like a headless browser client.
> Selenium is web automation API and now a W3C standard implemented by browsers to support it. Version 3+
> Earlier versions worked with older browsers via plugins or extensions but no more, in part due to security issues and in part because W3C.
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> PhantomJS was often like a generic browser space you could test inside of and it did have Selenium bindings.
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