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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

Working with form fields

If we are dealing with web pages, more often than not, we will come across form fields, which are input boxes, selection lists, text areas, and buttons. PhantomJS can also be used to automate the input of data and changing field values.

One of the best examples of these scenarios is a login page. We will create a script that will automate the login process to Instagram's web profile. Again, the username and password will be passed as command-line arguments. The first argument is username, followed by password.

var system = require('system');
var username = system.args[1];
var password = system.args[2];

Now that we have our credentials, we then open Instagram's login page at https://www.instagram.com/accounts/login.

var page = require('webpage').create();
page.open('https://instagram.com/accounts/login/',
function(status) {

With simple browser page inspection, we can check the element ID of the username field, password field, and...

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Getting Started with PhantomJS
Published in: Nov 2013
Publisher: Packt
ISBN-13: 9781782164227
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