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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

Capturing page script errors

Errors that are generated within the scripts that are coded within the page.evaluate method will not trigger phantom.onError; however, the webpage object's onError callback will receive the event instead. The definition of the function is the same, except that we define our handling on the webpage instance as shown in the following code:

var page = require('webpage').create();
page.onError = function(msg, trace) {
  console.log(msg);
  if (trace) {
    trace.forEach(function(t) {
      var stackmsg = '  at' + (t.function ? ' function ' + t.function : '') + ' (' + (t.file || t.sourceURL) + ':' + t.line + ')';
      console.log(stackmsg);
    });
  }
};

Assume that we have the following code in our webpage evaluate block:

page.open(url, function(status) {
  page.evaluate(function() {
    documentx.content = 1;
  });
});

As we see in the preceding code, we have a reference to an object named...

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