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phantomjs

Scriptable Headless Browser

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REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

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What it is

Scriptable Headless Browser

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 2:17:07 AM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year53 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2011-08-13 12:04:18 UTC to 2024-03-31 10:30:42 UTC.

051015202011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20112012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 1 submissions, 5 comments2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 1 submissions, 5 comments2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 10 mentions; 3 submissions, 7 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 1 submissions, 3 comments20172018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 18 mentions; 2 submissions, 16 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20112011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20122012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20132013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC615
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC615
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC1037
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC413
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC18216
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

From the project README

An excerpt from the repository, fetched Nov 13, 2026.

Read the project’s introduction
PhantomJS - Scriptable Headless WebKit PhantomJS (phantomjs.org) is a headless WebKit scriptable with JavaScript. The latest stable release is version 2.1. Important: PhantomJS development is suspended until further notice (see #15344 for more details). Use Cases Headless web testing. Lightning-fast testing without the browser is now possible! Page automation. Access and manipulate web pages with the standard DOM API, or with usual libraries like jQuery. Screen capture. Programmatically capture web contents, including CSS, SVG and Canvas. Build server-side web graphics apps, from a screenshot service to a vector chart rasterizer. Network monitoring. Automate performance analysis, track page loading and export as standard HAR format. Features Multiplatform, available on major operating systems: Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and other Unices. Fast and native implementation of web standards: DOM, CSS, JavaScript, Canvas, and SVG. No emulation! Pure headless (no X11) on Linux, ideal for continuous integration systems. Also runs on Amazon EC2, Heroku, and Iron.io. Easy to install: Download, unpack, and start having fun in just 5 minutes. Questions? Explore the complete documentation. Read tons of user articles on using PhantomJS. Join the mailing-list and discuss with other PhantomJS fans. PhantomJS is free software/open source, and is distributed under the BSD license. It contains third-party code, see the included third-party.txt file for the license information on third-party code. PhantomJS is created and maintained by @ariyahidayat, with the help of many contributors.
Read the full README on GitHub

What Hacker News says

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spikels·Jun 17, 2013
Phantomjs handles everything you mention (status codes on large numbers of resources, ajax, deferred loading monitoring and HAR output) with the possible exception of websockets - I have not tried and very little documentation today but it should work. The big limitation is this is WebKit-only right now. For example: here's the wiki on network monitoring including HAR: https://github.com/ariya/phantomjs/wiki/Network-Monitoring The API seems pretty clean to me but I guess that is a matter of opinion.
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