Is there a way to use PhantomJS in Python?

Question

I want to use PhantomJS in Python. I googled this problem but couldn\'t find proper solutions.

I find os.popen() may be a good choice. But I couldn\'t

Answer 1

The answer by @Pykler is great but the Node requirement is outdated. The comments in that answer suggest the simpler answer, which I've put here to save others time:

1. Install PhantomJS

   As @Vivin-Paliath points out, it's a standalone project, not part of Node.

   Mac:

   brew install phantomjs
   

   Ubuntu:

   sudo apt-get install phantomjs
   

   etc

2. Set up a virtualenv (if you haven't already):

   virtualenv mypy  # doesn't have to be "mypy". Can be anything.
   . mypy/bin/activate
   

   If your machine has both Python 2 and 3 you may need run virtualenv-3.6 mypy or similar.

3. Install selenium:

   pip install selenium
   

4. Try a simple test, like this borrowed from the docs:

   from selenium import webdriver
   from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
   
   driver = webdriver.PhantomJS()
   driver.get("http://www.python.org")
   assert "Python" in driver.title
   elem = driver.find_element_by_name("q")
   elem.clear()
   elem.send_keys("pycon")
   elem.send_keys(Keys.RETURN)
   assert "No results found." not in driver.page_source
   driver.close()