Setting timeout on selenium webdriver.PhantomJS

Question

The situation

I have a simple python script to get the HTML source for a given url:

    browser = webdriver.PhantomJS()
            


        

Answer 1

Long Explanation below, so TLDR:

Current version of Selenium's Ghostdriver (in PhantomJS 1.9.8) ignores resourceTimeout option, use webdriver's implicitly_wait(), set_page_load_timeout() and wrap them under try-except block.

#Python
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.common.exceptions import TimeoutException

browser = webdriver.PhantomJS()
browser.implicitly_wait(3)
browser.set_page_load_timeout(3)
try:
    browser.get("http://url_here")
except TimeoutException as e:
    #Handle your exception here
    print(e)
finally:
    browser.quit()

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Explanation

To provide PhantomJS page settings to Selenium, one can use webdriver's DesiredCapabilities such as:

#Python
from selenium import webdriver
cap = webdriver.DesiredCapabilities.PHANTOMJS
cap["phantomjs.page.settings.resourceTimeout"] = 1000
cap["phantomjs.page.settings.loadImages"] = False
cap["phantomjs.page.settings.userAgent"] = "faking it"
browser = webdriver.PhantomJS(desired_capabilities=cap)

//Java
DesiredCapabilities capabilities = DesiredCapabilities.phantomjs();
capabilities.setCapability("phantomjs.page.settings.resourceTimeout", 1000);
capabilities.setCapability("phantomjs.page.settings.loadImages", false);
capabilities.setCapability("phantomjs.page.settings.userAgent", "faking it");
WebDriver webdriver = new PhantomJSDriver(capabilities);

But, here's the catch: As in today (2014/Dec/11) with PhantomJS 1.9.8 and its embedded Ghostdriver, resourceTimeout won't be applied by Ghostdriver (See the Ghostdriver issue#380 in Github).

For a workaround, simply use Selenium's timeout functions/methods and wrap webdriver's get method in a try-except/try-catch block, e.g.

#Python
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.common.exceptions import TimeoutException

browser = webdriver.PhantomJS()
browser.implicitly_wait(3)
browser.set_page_load_timeout(3)
try:
    browser.get("http://url_here")
except TimeoutException as e:
    #Handle your exception here
    print(e)
finally:
    browser.quit()

//Java
WebDriver webdriver = new PhantomJSDriver();
webdriver.manage().timeouts()
        .pageLoadTimeout(3, TimeUnit.SECONDS)
        .implicitlyWait(3, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
try {
    webdriver.get("http://url_here");
} catch (org.openqa.selenium.TimeoutException e) {
    //Handle your exception here
    System.out.println(e.getMessage());
} finally {
    webdriver.quit();
}