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Getting Started with PhantomJS

You're reading from   Getting Started with PhantomJS Harness the strength and capabilities of PhantomJS to interact with the web and perform website testing with a headless browser based on WebKit

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782164227
Length 140 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Getting Started 2. Manipulating Page Content FREE CHAPTER 3. Handling Events and Callbacks 4. Capturing Errors 5. Grabbing Pages 6. Accessing Location-based Services 7. Working with Files 8. Cookies 9. External JavaScript 10. Testing with PhantomJS 11. Maximizing PhantomJS Index

Screenshot dimensions

PhantomJS renders the entire page depending on the size of the page or how it was supposed to be rendered in a browser. Different sites render differently. For example, if we capture a Wikipedia page in a normal browser, it will render something similar to the following screenshot:

Screenshot dimensions

The browser loads everything, but we can only see the viewable area in the browser, and we must scroll down to see everything else. In PhantomJS, it renders everything in one image. If we use our script and capture the screenshot of the preceding URL, it will give us an image with a dimension size of 777 pixels wide and 71,366 pixels long.

Having these gigantic images may cause some problems for viewing. PhantomJS allows setting the dimension size of what we have to capture. We can use the clipRect property of the WebPage object.

Screenshot dimensions

Let us say we want to limit the size of the rectangle to 800 pixels in width and 800pixels in height. We also need to define the coordinate the clipping will start...

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