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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

Anticipating the page loading error

Since we will soon be dealing with page loading, we should have some capabilities to identify whether or not the page is properly loaded. We can do this by checking the status of the loading of the page using the webpage object's open callback.

var system = require('system');
var url = system.args[1];
var page = require('webpage').create();
page.open(url, function(status) {
  if(status == 'success') {
    console.log('Page loaded.');
    // do more stuff here on the loaded page
  } else {
    console.log('Ooops! Problem loading page: ' this.url);
    phantom.exit(1);
  }
});

The open method's second parameter is a callback that will be executed after the page loads, with or without an error. The function callback will have a single parameter that will hold the status of the page loading operation. The object is in the string format.

The parameter will have the value 'success' if the page...

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